Site of roadblock in Alnwick, Northumberland. Latitude / Longitude: 55.40852564, -1.69695953Easting / Northing: 419286, 612774OS Grid Reference: NU 19286 12774What3Words: ///heaven.parsnips.talents
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The 6pdr Hotchkiss MKV gun was housed in a brick and concrete extension on the East end of the old Coast Guard Rocket House. The emplacement remains with the embrasure bricked up. The Rocket house has a large square window (just out of shot in the second picture) which most […]
Wandering around Rye Harbour back in 2009, bumped into these Road Block Cylinders.
Site of anti tank vertical rail roadblock. Britain from above shows a D type pillbox to the left of the dip in the wall.
These Tetrahedra formed part of the XII corps stopline (Dover to Whitstable). They were moulded at a large site nearby and deliverd to site by lorry.
A “mini gun battery” at Beacon Point Newbiggin. There is a Hotchkiss 6pdr gun house and a vickers machinegun pillbox as well as the remains of a Lozenge pillbox and another destroyed heavy achine gun pillbox. There is evidence that the Main gun house andf the lozenge pillbox were linked […]
Visible as slight depressions / darker patches in the road surface these are vertical rail sockets for a double roadblock located at the junction of The Wynding and front street at the south end of Bamburgh.
Military Concrete Remains on Hazeley Heath, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire. NGR SU764577 Situated on Hazeley Heath Common near Hartley Wintney are some unusual concrete structures that date from pre WW2. The concrete relics are fully accessible to the public and are at the end of a short concrete road leading from the main […]