An overview of Orkney
As the main anchorage for the Home Fleet in both World Wars Orkney, and in particular Scapa Flow, was heavily fortified.
Some details of those fortifications will be appearing here soon.
Orkney
Committed to the study and preservation of 20th Century pillboxes and anti-invasion defences – In the UK and around the world
Committed to the study and preservation of 20th Century pillboxes and anti-invasion defences – In the UK and around the world
- Pillbox Study Group
- Pillbox Types
- Variant And Local Designs
- Part 1 A – N
- Aldershot Command’s 2- Pounder Emplacement
- Aldershot Command’s 8-Sided Pillbox
- Allan-Williams Turret
- Beehive Pillbox
- Bison Mobile Pillbox
- Cuckmere MG Emplacement
- Cuckmere Mini Pillbox Variants
- Dorset Square Variant
- Dover Quad
- Eared Pillbox
- Eastern Command Type
- Essex Lozenge
- EXDO Posts
- Gosport Rectangular Pillbox
- Hayling Island Rectangular Pillbox
- Lincolnshire 3 Bay
- Lozenge Pillbox
- Marlborough Mini Pillbox
- Mowlem 6 Pounder Drum Pillbox Shalford Surrey
- Mushroom Pillbox
- Norcon Pillbox Type CP/6/40/111
- North Downs Way Shellproof Type 24 Variant.
- North Downs Way Tall Type 24
- North Downs Way Unusual Variant
- Northumberland D Type
- Part 2 O – Z
- Open Machine Gun Positions
- Pentagonal Pillbox
- Pickett-Hamilton Fort
- Pillbox Gun Mounts
- Pre-Fab Pillbox
- QF Six Pounder Open Gun Emplacement
- ROF pillbox variants
- Seagull Trench
- Surrey’s Mowlem Type 24 Drum
- Tett Turret
- Triumph Motorbike Pillbox
- Two Storey & Tower Pillbox Designs
- Type 22 ‘Eastern Command Variant’
- Vickers Machine Gun Emplacement
- Yarnold Sangar
- Part 1 A – N
- WWII Defences
- Rescue Archaeolgy
- Rescues A – N
- A Pickett-Hamilton Fort Excavated
- Basingstoke Canal Defences
- Basingstoke Canal Type 26/Stent Prefab Rescue
- Basingstoke Canal Unique GHQ Line A Pillbox Rescue
- Beal Farm Pillbox Restorations
- Crookham Shellproof ‘Makeover’
- Dragons Teeth Cleaning
- Rescuing a type 22 (S0008438) at Elstow.
- Ewshot & Operation Cromwell Part 1
- Ewshot & Operation Cromwell Part 2
- Ewshot Pillbox Restoration “Exclusive” September 7th 2013.
- Hampshire 8-Sided Pillbox
- Maiden Newton Pillbox Rescue
- Heifer Law Zero Station
- Netley Park Type 24 Rescue
- Rescues N – Z
- Rescues A – N
- Defence Articles
- A “New” Type Of Pillbox
- Auburn Sands ‘Coastal Crust’ Defences
- Breamore Mill, River Avon, Ringwood Stopline
- Building Pillboxes: A Personal Story
- Building Winterton-On-Sea’s Defences
- Defending Chequers Bridge
- The F.C. Mushroom Pillbox
- Flame Fougasse: Poynings Flame Trap
- Maiden Newton – Poole Harbour Stop Line
- National Trust North Downs GHQ Line B Pillbox Event
- Northumberland Stoplines
- Pillbox Camouflage
- Sand-Le-Mere: Defence of a Coastal Inlet
- Shell Ness EXDO Post
- Stoplines: Some tactical notes
- Stroudwater Canal Pillboxes
- Winterton’s Defences
- War Walks
- Gazetteer
- Gazetteer Subsite
- Isles Of Scilly
- Lancashire
- Lincolnshire
- Norfolk
- North Yorkshire
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- A Preserved Type 22 Pillbox in Surrey
- Elstead GHQ Line
- Farnham Park
- Godalming Fire Watchers Post
- Hankley Common’s Atlantic Wall D-Day Practise Area.
- Kettlebury Hill, Assault Training Observation Bunker
- Mowlem 6 Pounder Drum Pillbox Shalford Surrey
- Southern Railway Pillbox, Hook Heath, Woking, Surrey.
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