Pillbox Camouflage
The basis of this article is Camouflage Military Training Pamphlet No 46: Field Defences 1941 It is intended […]
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Basingstoke Canal Type 26/Stent Prefab Rescue
Prefab Type 26 Pillbox 52B, Lock 15, Brookwood Bridge, Surrey. SU943569 Back in the spring a meeting […]
Ewshot Pillbox Restoration September 2013.
Just over three years ago PSG members completed the Rescue Archaeology on six of the 18 pillboxes that […]
Aldershot Command’s 2 – Pounder Emplacement
GHQ Line B Anti Tank Defence. By Tim Denton. This design of anti tank emplacement is unique […]
Vickers Factory Pillbox.
Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey. TQ 0699562943 This small and unique six sided pillbox can be found within the […]
QF Six Pounder Open Gun Emplacement
The hexagonal Anti-tank gun emplacement or gun pit as it can also be called is one of […]
Aldershot Command’s 8-Sided Pillbox
Hampshire and Surrey Bullet Proof Variant. Ten examples of this bullet proof pillbox survive making it one of […]
Vickers Gun & Equipped for Action
 A Vickers Emplacement 70 Years On An early morning in July saw myself and Mike Hopton meet up […]
Loopholed Walls
Loopholed walls are one of the rarer forms of surviving defences. Good examples can be found in Basingstoke Town […]
Farnham Park
Spigot Mortar Base and Air Raid Shelter. Farnham Park is accessible to all and within can be found […]
Rudyard Lake
The lake was built in 1797 to provide water for the canal system and is strictly a reservoir […]
Cheddleton ‘Blown Up’ Pillbox
Churnet Stop-Line, Cheddleton, Staffordshire I enclose a couple of pix of the remains of a FW3/22? at Cheddleton […]
Lossiemouth
Anti Invasion Defences. As an enthusiast for all matters relating to the second world war I was very […]
Snowdonia
‘Pen-Y-Gwryd Hotel’ Snowdonia, North Wales OS Sheet: 115 (Snowdon) I wonder how many visitors to the Snowdonia National […]
Borth-Y-Gest
North Wales OS Sheet: 124. GRID: SH 5650 – 3730 A few months ago I decided that a day […]
Fontanamare Project
Porto Paglia, South Sardinia  A Pillbox Restoration joint venture between A.S.S.Fort Sardinia and “L’Orizzonte” The War 1940-43 And […]
Napier Pillboxes
There are relics of fortification along the beaches either side of Napier, New Zealand. Mostly, these were/are pillboxes […]
Maghtab Sound Mirror
Sound mirrors are large acoustic deflectors, used for early warning of approaching aircraft. Unlike the earlier Semi-Spherical sound […]
Blue Grotto Pillbox
On a recent visit to Malta, Paul Wells spotted this camouflage pillbox close to the famous Blue Grotto. […]
Altea
Altea Pillboxes, Altea, Valencia, Spain There are two well preserved – but frustratingly unrecorded – pillboxes and one ruined […]
British Pillboxes in France
Two pillboxes for a Vickers machine-gun near ‘Moulin du Rhin’ east of Dunkirk. They are part of a […]
Hong Kong Pillboxes
The defence plan of the early 1930’s was for a defensive line across the Kowloon Peninsular, known as […]
Hayling Island’s FW3/22 Pillboxes
There are at least half a dozen of the common type 22 pillboxes that can be found dotted around […]
Beaulieu’s Disguised Dairyhouse Pillbox
Concealed and Disguised Pillboxes at Beaulieu, New Forest, Hampshire                                                    Ngr SU387023 Many people will recognise this unusual […]
St Ives
Camouflaged Pillbox OS 203: Lands End. NGR: SW 5205 – 4040 Pedn Olva Point This is a very […]
Ufton Bridge Pillbox
Kennet & Avon Canal, Berkshire NGR: SU618686. Having just joined the Pillbox Study Group and having received my […]
National Trust North Downs GHQ Line B Pillbox Event
National Trust North Downs Pillbox Day Sunday the 13th of September 2009 was probably the first time the […]
Ewshot & Operation Cromwell Part 1
The rescue & recording of two Vickers gun emplacements A sunny October morning in 2009 saw well […]
Hitler’s threatened British Invasion 1940
In June 1940 the unimaginable happened: the mighty French Army, that had held the line against Germany […]
Sand-Le-Mere: Defence of a Coastal Inlet
East Yorkshire by Austin J Ruddy The Holderness area of East Yorkshire stretches 30 miles from Flamborough Head […]
Recovery Of A ‘Bison’ Mobile Pillbox
By The Lincolnshire Aircraft Recovery Group The remains of the Bison were found at Sleaford where it had […]
Breamore Mill, River Avon, Ringwood Stopline
Downton, Hampshire Adapted from an article published in Loopholes No: 21 By Nigel walker Ever since I moved […]
Auxiliary Units
The Auxiliary Units or GHQ Auxiliary Units were specially trained, highly secret units created by the United Kingdom […]
Seagull Trench
Airfield Defence Pillbox The first thing that people say when they see a Seagull Trench is “Look at […]
Hong Kong Wong Nai Chung Gap Defences
WW2 History Trail in Hong Kong by Graham G. Matthews In Hong Kong This walk traces the battle […]
Abbotsbury Beach Defences
A Walk Along Chesil Beach Abbotsbury Open Machine Gun Emplacements & Defences NGR: SY5665984083 & SY5666484097 During August […]
Ewshot & Operation Cromwell Part 2
February 2010, A type 24 emerges from the undergrowth. On a cold and wet February day a keen […]
Hampshire 8-Sided Pillbox
Re-Discovered, A Hampshire 8 Sided Pillbox. A forgotten and unusual pillbox re-appeared again late October 2008 when myself, […]
Shellproof FW3/24 Rescue Archaeology
March 2008 saw myself and PSG member Tim Burt meet up to work on an overgrown Type […]
Vickers Emplacement ‘Make Over’
I had been given permission by the landowner to carry out a study on the Vickers machine gun […]