Built of concrete filled sandbags, these pillboxes are known as “Beehives”
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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 […]
8 photos over a page and a half in the  photo album included in the collection show 3 different pillboxes in Bridgewater, Somerset. Two of them were easily identified using the EDOBD overlay for google Earth. The third is proving more difficult as there is nothing on the overlay that […]
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. […]
Pillboxes near Mildenhall, pictures from 1973
There are relics of fortification along the beaches either side of Napier, New Zealand. Mostly, these were/are pillboxes of presumably New Zealand Ministry of Defence design. In addition, there was a Coastal Defence Artillery Battery on Bluff Hill, overlooking the Port of Napier. A little research showed that 77 Battery […]
I am a member of “The Coast Defense Study Group” in the USA and a resident of the Island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. I am curious as to whether or not your group has come across any cast-metal turreted pillboxes in the U.K. in conjunction with defenses of […]
I have included several photos of pillbox types found on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii. It is a WW2 mass-produced variant built of reinforced concrete and built either at Army engineer base yards, then transported to the site, or poured in place on site depending on the location. It includes […]
The defence plan of the early 1930’s was for a defensive line across the Kowloon Peninsular, known as the Inner Line (or later as the Gindrinkers Line), and fixed machine gun posts, backed up by mobile reserves for the southern beaches of the Island. In 1935, construction started on a […]
By Daniele Grioni
Whilst on the beach one day I spotted what to my untrained eye looked like a pillbox. I went back the next day with my camera and took the attached pictures which I thought may be of interest to PSG members. It is located on top of a small sand […]
Two pillboxes for a Vickers machine-gun near ‘Moulin du Rhin’ east of Dunkirk. They are part of a group of four pillboxes that defended the inundated polders in the western part of the Maginot Line. The front of one of the pillboxes near ‘Moulin du Rhin’. The embrasure is slightly […]
I have recently visited the area of Lille again to look for pillboxes there. I have selected some photos for your site. Up to now I have identified the following types of pillboxes: 1) A Single HMG and an entrance with a 90° curve (E.g. Moulin dur Rhin). 2) As 1), but […]
Tony Hendry and son Karl have been about and about looking at the local defences near their home in Norfolk. It’s great to see a new generation taking a keen interest in military concrete! This Pillbox is located on the A47 on the right side just before you go into […]
Surviving Wartime Defences around Blackpool. The first five images are at grid reference SD328313 and are of a bunker inside the perimeter fence at Blackpool Airport. It can be found at the end of an old access/emergency road. I am not sure what its purpose was but it is very […]
GHQ Stop-Line, Tidmarsh, Berkshire. Bridges Were Hastily Erected To Provide Access To The Pillboxes. By Mike Quigley
River Whitewater GHQ Line A Defences. Ngr SU740611 Close to Heckfield Bridge near Bramshill in Hampshire are two very original and sound surving type 25 pillboxes. The full height example which can be easily seen from the road has its inner and outer galvanise steel shuttering and the retaining bolts holding […]
Ngr SU832554 This type 22 variant pillbox situated alongside the main south coast line at Cove near Farnborough would have given all round fire covering the adjacent railway bridge and Cove Rd. Its position is close to Fleet Pond bridge and also faces northwest on to the A3013 Fleet to Farnborough road, […]
There are at least half a dozen of the common type 22 pillboxes that can be found dotted around the island, some are accesible others are not, the majority can be found by walking along the south west coast close to Hayling Island golf course. With the exception of the pillboxes on […]