Daily Archives: 21st May 2019
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Not great photos, captured with very old phone. By the time I went back with a proper camera, about a week later, the building had been demolished.
Concrete rectangular pillbox located at back of dunes overlooking road off beach. Now used for service duct, either electric or water board. Original blast wall to entrance present, with embrasures.
A “mini gun battery” at Beacon Point Newbiggin. There is a Hotchkiss 6pdr gun house and a vickers machinegun pillbox as well as the remains of a Lozenge pillbox and another destroyed heavy achine gun pillbox. There is evidence that the Main gun house andf the lozenge pillbox were linked […]
A firewatchers / mine watchers post overlooking the North Shields Ferry landing.