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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. […]
Kew bridge Variant Pillboxes
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 […]
Putney Bridge Pillbox: S0000779
Canal Crossing Road Block Ngr SU852527 These substantial road block posts can be found on the north side of Claycart Bridge at Aldershot, the bridge was a used as a military crossing over the Basingstoke Canal from the training areas south east of Aldershot. Originally two small rectangular pillboxes […]
Claycart Bridge Road Block, Basingstoke Canal, Aldershot.
Kennet & Avon Canal, Berkshire NGR: SU618686. Having just joined the Pillbox Study Group and having received my 1st copy of loopholes yesterday, I thought it would be good to send a recent picture taken at Ufton Bridge, alongside the Kennet and Avon canal in Berkshire. According to Ironsides book […]
Ufton Bridge Pillbox
River Medway and Barming Bridge. Ngr TQ725539 Over grown Type 24 Pillbox covering Barming Bridge, the Anti tank emplacement is just yards behind.. Picture by David Ottway. I had observed the two ivy clad structures in the bottom of an apple orchard just east of the rail bridge over a […]
Barming Bridge
The River Medway & GHQ Line at Teston. The village of Teston [pronounced Teason] is on the north bank of the River Medway and is four miles west of the county town of Maidstone. A view of Teston Bridge and the River Medway looking North East. In 1940 a section […]