It’s not often that one finds a truly “new” pillbox these days (I know all of them are 60+ years old), but even rarer that a “new” name for a pillbox is uncovered. This is the story of how that came about, thanks to the Pillbox Study Group, Defence of […]
Daily Archives: January 6, 2013
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The F.C. Construction Type are also variously termed “Mushroom” due to its shape or “Oakington” & “Fairlop” Pillboxes, probably because examples are present on both these airfields. The type seems to be confined to airfields apparently being found predominantly in the eastern counties of Britain. When Henry Wills wrote “Pillboxes” […]
eDoB Online Map – S0012601 Louise Manuell takes a photographic tour of this very unusual defence structure. NGR: TR 05283 67630