2 x 12pdr Quick Fire in WWII and 2 x 4″ QF in WWI
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2 4.7″ QF Mk4 on Mk3 mountings were emplaced here. The battery was never really finished – there […]
Castle Battery, Shapinsay. Coast Artillery Battery: S0015239
4 x 12pdr QF guns were emplaced here. The battery remains fairly complete. The magazines are still extant […]
Clestrain Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0015234 WWI
1 x 12pdr QF installed in a temporary emplacement allowing all round traverse.
Deerness Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0012960
1 x Twin 6 pdr QF emplaced here. Search light houses are facing collapse from erosion.
Galtness Battery, Shapinsay. Coast Artillery Battery: S0015274
1 x Twin 6pdr with no overhead cover. Unigue double split beam searchlight houses.
Graemsay Battery, Graemsay. Coast Artillery Battery: S0015229
Much of this WWII battery is built on top of the WWI 3 x 4″ QF battery. some […]
Holm Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0012912
2 x 12 pdr QF and associated buildings.
Houton Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0012968
2 x 6″ breech loaders Mk7 on CP2 mountings. Much of this battery is built on top of […]
Hoxa Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0000115
2 x 12pdr QF one in concrete gun house the other in an open emplacement with a peat […]
Lamb Holm Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0012903
1 x Twin 6pdr QF gun house survives along with the engine room and 1 of the 3 […]
Links Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0013006
1 x Twin 6pdr Q.F.
Neb Battery, Flotta. Coast Artillery Battery: S0012964
2 6″ BL Mk7 on CP2 mountings. This battery was built in 1938 and was still in M.O.D. […]
Ness Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0013005
2 x 4.7″ QF Mk4 on Mk3 mountings to start with and 2 6″ BL Mk7 on P8 […]
Rerwick Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0012904
Located on the Golta peninsular on the Island of Flotta, This WWI battery initially housed 3 3pdr’s. This […]
Roan Head Battery (WWI)
COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY: S0015230 (Extant) Twin 6pdr QF gun emplacement. A cable railway was laid to facilitate supply […]
Scad Battery, Hoy.
2 x 12pdr QF guns emplaced here.
Skerry Battery, Hoy. Coast Artillery Battery: S0015186
2 x 6″ breech loaders Mk7 on CP2 mountings. There was also a 4.7″ gun on a temporary […]
Stanger Head Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: S0015233
There are four searchlights installed here and a Twin 6pdr with no overhead cover or director tower. Extreme […]
Walls Battery, South Walls, Hoy. Coast Artillery Battery: S0015232
2 x 12pdr QF in gunhouses with different architecture.
Wasswick Battery. Coast Artillery Battery: e27158
Round Pillbox, Harlow Hill. RAF Ouston Thick Fronted Round Pillbox. S0007987
Pillbox (Variant): S0007987
This pillbox closely resembles the standard “Northumberland D Type” but has a shorter side wall. It is completely […]
Pillbox (D TYPE): S0007991
This pillbox is listed as a Type 24 but when measured it appears not to be it is […]
Pillbox (Type FW3/24): S0007988
This Type 22 is slightly taller than usual and has a raised floor. There are holes either side […]
Pillbox (Type FW3/22): e10016
This variant pillbox is circular and brick shuttered, it has two large MG loopholes and a smaller rifle […]
Pillbox (Variant): S0007989
Civil Air raid shelter built into bank. entrance hidden by hedge. emergency exit in concrete slab next to […]
Durham Road, Sunderland – Air Raid Shelter.
Type 22 now preserved in the new housing estate. The grilles on the loopholes look rather out of […]
West Allotment PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22): e1031.
See WW2 Airfield Battle Headquarters (battlehq.info) for more information about Airfield Battle HQs
BATTLE HEADQUARTERS (11008/41): e40276 Scatsta
This unusual pillbox was in the grounds of a large Victorian house until that was demolished and replaced […]
Variant Pillbox Near Seaton Delaval. e27279.
This pillbox used to have a corrugated iron roof structure above as camouflage.
Bothal, Northumberland D type with entrance passage. S0013378
Early in 2017 we received an Email from Jon Mills. He had been interested in Pillboxes and WWII […]
About The Mills Collection
Type 24 pillbox on verge of Brampton Road above station. About 50m E of junction with B 1354. […]
Aylsham Pillbox (Type FW3/24): S0005480 and S0005488
This Type 24 appears not to be listed in the DOB or EDOB databases. Update 21/6/2020 it now […]
Blackheath Type 24: e41998
This small pillbox appears most likely to be S0013698. Marked as removed in the EODBD overlay.
Brentford. Pillbox Just off North Circular (A406).
8 photos over a page and a half in the photo album included in the collection show 3 […]