Military features. Conwyl elfed area. Next to the old Rock & Fountain pub on the A484 lies this series of WW2 military reminders. Left is a pill box built onto the side of the reservoir pump house and overlooks the river and railway track on the opposite bank. The pill box on the Right is overlooking the road […]
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A Pickett Hamilton fort has been recently uncovered in a field next to the Amazon warehouse at the site of the former RAF Sealand on Deeside. As of 21/5/23 it’s future is uncertain. Thanks to Colin Jones for taking and giving permission to use the photos. Photos – Colin Jones
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 […]
North Wales OS Sheet: 124. GRID: SH 5650 – 3730 A few months ago I decided that a day at the seaside would be a great idea. I hadn’t been to the Porthmadog part of Wales for about 20 years and so I had no idea that I was to find […]
This site has absolutely nothing to do with Conway, Gwynedd, it is part of the Western Command Carmarthen Stop Line, which runs from Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, in the south, to Llangrannog, Ceredigion, in the north. The village name is Cynwyl Elfed and I’m afraid Philip Knight’s information is, perhaps, not entirely […]
Point Of Ayr is located along the North Wales coast at the tip of land on the western side of the Dee Estuary. It has a wonderful lighthouse positioned on the wide flat beach about 150m off the line of sand dunes that run for miles along this part of […]
Pickett-Hamilton Fort The former WWII airfield at Llandow, South Wales, has recently been earmarked for development, and many of the surviving wartime structures are likely to be destroyed. One such structure was the top half of a Pickett-Hamilton Fort. I spoke to the owners who said I could have it. In […]
Kevin Briggs from Monmouth, has kindly sent in photographs he took in the 1980’s and 1990’s. The Defence Structures are to be found on the western side of the River Severn. Type 22 Pillbox @ Magor (1987) Grid: ST 4130-8680 Note the very unusual concrete plinths that protrude above each […]
‘Pen-Y-Gwryd Hotel’ Snowdonia, North Wales OS Sheet: 115 (Snowdon) I wonder how many visitors to the Snowdonia National Park pass these Pillboxes every year without even giving them a second glance. Those that do acknowledge their existence probably give no more than “What on earth is a Pillbox doing up […]