Daily Archives: 8th March 2015

I remembered seeing these pillboxes years ago when I was on holiday and as I was in the […]
Cayton Bay

The River Medway & GHQ Line at Teston. The village of Teston [pronounced Teason] is on the north […]
Defending Teston Bridge

River Medway and Barming Bridge. Ngr TQ725539 Over grown Type 24 Pillbox covering Barming Bridge, the Anti tank […]
Barming Bridge

Ashurst FW3/24 Pillbox Picture by David Ottway This is a short article on the GHQ line between the […]
Ashurst & Penshurst GHQ Line

Viaduct Pillboxes. Adisham Viaduct in East Kent is unusual in that it has two pillboxes built into the […]
Adisham Viaduct

Relief Landing Ground at NGR: SP175036 A ‘Farm’ at the WWII RLG, RAF Southrop, Gloucestershire is defended by […]
RAF Southrop Defences

Wickham Bishops Road Defences, Witham, Essex Today I visited a site at Wickham bishops road, Essex. It is recorded by Fred […]
Wickham Bishops Road

I took these photos last year in the summer at Walton on the Naze and I don’t think […]
Walton on the Naze

Hornchurch Tett Turret. NGR: TQ 5384 Hornchurch Tett Turret. NGR: TQ 5384 Hornchurch Tett Turret. NGR: TQ 5384 […]
RAF Hornchurch Tett Turrets

Chris Stewart-Moffitt has formed the Military Fortifications Rescue, Research & Restoration Group Covering the County of Essex, the […]
Essex Artifacts

Cox Hill, Lawford, Essex I found the PSG web site very interesting and was able to identify the […]
Cox’s Hill

What Are These? I found these some years ago at Bradwell Bay Airfield [Fighter Bomber Station WW2]. Has […]
Bradwell Bay

Rectangular MMG Emplacements at Rye Harbour Photographs sent to the PSG by Dr Barry Yates These local design […]
Rye Harbour S0006989 and S0006988

Worbarrow Bay Revisited Worbarrow Bay, Dorset. I first visited Warbarrow Bay near Lulworth Cove back in 1996 as […]
Worbarrow Bay

OS 194 SY7713-8084 Is it a Pillbox or is it an Observation Post? Have you ever come across […]
White Nothe Pillpost

Nothe Fort, Weymouth, Dorset. Visiting Weymouth on a fine day in August, I decided to take a […]
Weymouth Searchlights

Looking Back At Weymouth’s  Defences. A 1980’S Photographic Record Of Weymouth’s WWII Defences By Kevin Briggs.
Weymouth Retrospective

Fort Henry, Redend Point, Studland Bay. Dorset. NGR: SZ 038 828 On top of Redend Point, Studland Bay, […]
Fort Henry

Ringstead Bay, Weymouth OS194 Â Remains Of Type 25 Pillboxes. by Graham G Matthews
Demolished Concrete

These unusual pillboxes are located at Sennen Cove, Cornwall, just around the corner from Land’s End. This pillbox […]
Sennen Cove

St Michael’s Mount OS: 203 Land’s End NGR: SW 5145 – 2990 (Centre of island)  ‘One-Off’ Design Pillbox […]
St Michael’s Mount

Camouflaged Pillbox OS 203: Lands End. NGR: SW 5205 – 4040 Pedn Olva Point This is a very […]
St Ives

OS Sheet 203: Land’s End Porthleven is a small fishing village situated on the edge of Mount’s Bay […]
Porthleven

Porthcurno WWII Communication Bunker & Anti-Invasion Defences A Photographic ‘Look-back’ OS Sheet 203 Porthcurno, near ‘Lands End’ Porthcurno […]
Porthcurno Comms Bunker

Type 24 Pillbox Overlooking Anti-Tank Wall A Type 24 Pillbox located on the small headland that separates Kennack […]
Kennack Sands

OS 203: Land’s End Type 24 Pillbox Grid Ref: SW 5870-2758 This Type 24 Pillbox is located on […]
Hendra Beach

Pendennis Castle, Cornwall Pendennis Castle guards the entrance to the River Fal at Falmouth, Cornwall. Originally built by […]
Half Moon Battery

OS Sheet 203: Land’s End Fishing Cove, Gunwalloe, is situated at the very southern end of Loe Bar, […]
Gunwalloe

A Type 27 Pillbox placed on top of an embankment overlooking the river Dee and RAF Sealand.
RAF Sealand Type 27

NGR SJ 5922-5763 I took these photographs of the remaining seagull trench at the former RAF Calveley, near […]
RAF Calveley Seagull Trench

Arp Signal Box The great increase in railway activity in WW2 led to the development of a new […]
Crewe Coalyard

Seaplane Pillbox OS118 NGR: SJ926654 On a recent visit to the Peak District National Park I decided to […]
Bosley Reservoir

Although not a pillbox here is a wartime structure that I found in Berkshire in an area known […]
Wartime Concrete

Kennet & Avon Canal, Berkshire NGR: SU618686. Having just joined the Pillbox Study Group and having received my […]
Ufton Bridge Pillbox

GHQ Stop-Line, Tidmarsh, Berkshire. Bridges Were Hastily Erected To Provide Access To The Pillboxes. By Mike Quigley
Tidmarsh Pillboxes

Under Threat!  Berkshire GHQ Line Vickers Machine Gun Pillbox M4 Junction 11 April 2008 Berkshire’s possible sole surviving […]
M4 Vickers Machine Gun Pillbox

Following on from his recent information on Wartime Concrete in Berkshire, Philip came across this carving in a […]
Lester Birky Carving

Dunmill Lock, Hungerford Common, Berkshire Anti-Tank Defences On Hungerford Common Situated between the railway line and the Kennet […]
Hungerford Common Anti-Tank Defences

NGR SU 680-706 At Burghfield, just a few miles South-west of Reading in Berkshire can be found an […]
Burghfield Fortified Building

Located on the B3349 near Wokingham/Aborfield. NGR: SU777668 This rectangular bullet proof  variant design  can be found close to the […]