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.
- Pillbox Study Group
- Types Of Pillbox
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Cornwall
- Dorset
- East Sussex
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Hampshire
- Aldershot Open Light Anti-Aircraft Post
- Aldershot, Rectangular Pillbox, Basingstoke Canal.
- Beaulieu’s Disguised Dairyhouse Pillbox
- Bramley C.A.D Depot Guard House Pillbox
- Bramshill FW3/25 Armco Pillboxes
- Claycart Bridge Road Block, Basingstoke Canal, Aldershot.
- Defended Barn,Fullerton.
- Eastney Defences, Portsmouth.
- Elvetham Heath’s Spigot Mortar Base
- Emsworth Channel, Hayling Island, Watchers Post.
- Hayling Island’s FW3/22 Pillboxes
- Hazeley Heath Tank Testing Ramp
- Sherfield On Loddon Type 22s
- Sinah Common HAA Site
- Southern Railway Pillboxes, Farnborough.
- Tongham, Aldershot, East Ring Defences.
- Isles Of Scilly
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Lincolnshire
- Norfolk
- North Yorkshire
- Northumberland
- 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.
- Tyne and Wear
- Warwickshire
- West Sussex
- Wiltshire
- Isle Of Man
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Wales
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