Air Raid Shelter in the back garden of a house on Mitford Road, Morpeth.
Yearly Archives: 2020
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Some photographs of the restored Stanton air raid shelter at the former RAF Carew Cheriton airfield. More info about RAF Carew Cheriton here The shelter was moved by contractors of the nearby road improvement scheme. It has been erected by members of the Carew Cheriton Control Group on their museum […]
The 6pdr Hotchkiss MKV gun was housed in a brick and concrete extension on the East end of the old Coast Guard Rocket House. The emplacement remains with the embrasure bricked up. The Rocket house has a large square window (just out of shot in the second picture) which most […]
We corresponded a couple of weeks ago regarding a road block at Pear Tree lane, Little Common, Bexhill and you have added it to your gazetteer. Now, on the main road from Bexhill to Ninfield / Battle a pillbox has appeared! Somebody has recently cleared all the undergrowth from around […]
Wandering around Rye Harbour back in 2009, bumped into these Road Block Cylinders.
Site of anti tank vertical rail roadblock. Britain from above shows a D type pillbox to the left of the dip in the wall.
Scant evidence for an anti tank vertical rail roadblock. There is evidence of another round the junction to the right in the first picture, as well as definite signs in a previous post.
Pics from March 2025 Pictures from 2020
Buston links, South of Alnmouth, Northumberland.
More pictures taken 14-02-2026 after several storms. Gallery below by Jan Anderson also 14-02-2026 Earlier pictures
Lots of tidal activity and heavy rain scoured away the sand that covered this Admirality Z1 beach scaffolding. Pictures taken Oct 2019.
Morpeth Air Raid Shelters Update 28/10/2020 Driving through Morpeth it was obvious that some work had been done to the pair of Air Raid shelters between houses on St Mary’s Field. Rather than demolishing them they’ve been rendered and preserved for the future. A pair of civil air raid shelters […]
These Tetrahedra formed part of the XII corps stopline (Dover to Whitstable). They were moulded at a large site nearby and deliverd to site by lorry.
A variant type pillbox found only in Northumberland. There are variations , some with HMG loops and others with varying numbers of rifle loops. All have a dog legged entrance with associated loophole.
Thanks to Chris Nason for the photo’s and finding the roadblock.
Site Type: PILLBOX (20TH CENTURY) Canmore ID: 296529 Site Number: ND39SW 121 Grid Reference: ND 33922 91339 Description: A small rectangular concrete building with three loopholes is situated above the high water mark about 101m NE of the Martello Tower at Hackness (ND39SW 8). The entrance is in the SE […]
