Some aerial footage of Bawdsey Battery over the last couple of years. Recently, Matt Porter has started documenting the pillboxes that are being ravaged by the sea at East Lane (Bawdsey). EMERGENCY COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY: S0006224 PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22 AA): S0008124 PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22): S0006072 Bawdsey Battery Observation Post S00060223 […]
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Type 24 pillbox on verge of Brampton Road above station. About 50m E of junction with B 1354. The pillbox faces E. In corner of John Gaunt School playing field, near railway station and railway bridge, Aylsham.
S0006362 This Type 22 with no ricochet wall and an external blast wall is still extant and in very good condition.
Whilst on our survey, we discovered 3 large gun emplacements (at least we think they are gun emplacements!). They are on Boyton Marshes in the parishof Boyton, Suffolk (TM/639/247 approx) and are much larger than the common pillboxes found throughout this area. We have serached the Defence of Britain database […]
Mark Brotherton has been out and about in Suffolk & Norfolk checking out some of the local defence structures. Bury St Edmunds Hudson House Pillbox Kilverston Railway Crossing Lackford Littleport Mildenhall Pillbox Hengrave Rougham White Chapel Farm By Mark Brotherton
Boyton Marshes Tank Ranges Loopholed Wall In Suffolk Farmhouse Anti-Tank Sockets In Road Airfield Defence Pillbox At Woodbridge Alistair Graham Kerr, Editor Psg ‘Loopholes’ Journal
This three looped Pillbox variant was sited at the harbour entrance at Lowestoft opposite a Pounder Emplacement. Another example of this design can be found 14 miles to the south with a group of ‘two looped square’ pattern pillboxes. The ‘two looped square’ Pillbox (Type 26 Variant?) is commonly found […]