The picture shows a Pillbox built in 1940 and demolished in 1950. It was sited to defend a HAA Battery situated on the common where at one point Sir Mortimer Wheeler was in command.
Greater London
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Just to the south side of southbound platform of elevated tube station and before District Line trains cross River Thames. Pillbox is multi-sided and of two storeys – lower storey has doorway in west side and one embrasure. Upper storey projects westwards beyond lower storey and has a doorway on […]
This small pillbox appears most likely to be S0013698. Marked as removed in the EODBD overlay.
Two variant Pillboxes at Kew Railway Bridge, London. The Pillbox as it appears today The pillbox below is described as –Polygonal concrete-faced pillbox, of a particular design for railway linesides. Embrasures providing all-round fire. Front wall is a chamfered corner. Field of fire from two angled walls and side walls. […]
This Type 24 appears not to be listed in the DOB or EDOB databases. Update 21/6/2020 it now appears as PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24): e41998 The photos in the gallery below don’t appear to have aged very well and quite a lot of work has gone into recovering as much detail […]