Looking through a packet of photographs, I came across two of a two storey, or elevated, pillbox and one of a ford escort next to a large building. I wasn’t sure if the picture with the Escort in was connected at this stage. I posted the two of the pillbox […]
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The third set of photo’s I decided to scan showed this curious, double decker, pillbox. Checking out it’s location on the google Earth EDOB overlay showed nothing. A bout of old OS 1″ map viewing, Streetviewing and google mapping later I came up with the last view in the gallery. […]
The Mill at Elstead on the River Wey, GHQ Line B, Surrey. Beside the River Wey at the Mill in Elstead is an excellent preserved FW3/22 pillbox, it can be found close to the main entrance and beer garden of the picturesque restaurant and public house. Although the brick shuttered […]
Anti Tank Gun Defence and Hidden Vickers Machine Gun Box, GHQ Line B, Elstead, Surrey. Taking a public footpath from Somerset Bridge which crosses the River Wey close to Elstead in Surrey, I had planned to take a look at one of the large AT pillboxes, one of several in […]
Spigot Mortar Base and Air Raid Shelter. Farnham Park is accessible to all and within can be found surviving relics from WW2. During the conflict the park was close to the GHQ Line and next to Farnham Castle where the War Office had established its Camouflage Development and Training Centre. The […]
Blackburn Works, Cattershall Lane, Godalming, Surrey. Ngr SU982444 Until 2005 an unusual and rare find could be seen on top of an old Victorian looking works which belonging to the J L Blackburn engineering company close to the River Wey at Godalming. I happened to notice which at first appeared […]
Hankley Common “Atlantic Wall” Tilford SU884413 Visiting Hankley Common in Surrey I decided to capture some of the interesting parts of the “Atlantic wall” that survive today scattered around the woodland in this pleasant part of Surrey. The ruins can be found after a short walk in a straight line […]
Kettlebury Hill and its Concrete Bunker Ngr SU880404 Not far from the D-Day training wall at Hankley Common is an unusual rectangular blockhouse set on the edge of Kettlebury Hill, this once had a clear commanding view across the open common below but over time the view has been obscured by tree growth. The structure is quite […]
Blackhorse Road Railway Bridge, Woking, Surrey. Ngr SU968571 This large rectangular pillbox stands protecting the road bridge under the main London to Bournemouth railway at Blackhorse Rd, Woking, despite being partially overgrown the structure looks in excellent condition and has three facing south west facing embrasures which cover the road […]
Tillingbourne Brook, East Shalford Lane, Ngr TQ 012474 On a section of GHQ Line B near Shalford in Surrey is a badly deteriorating, but still highly interesting drum shaped anti tank gun emplacement. Postioned on the edge of a woods and a gentle slope facing south west, its map ref […]