{"id":11271,"date":"2023-08-06T12:08:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T11:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/?p=11271"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:17:56","slug":"clapham-common-pillbox-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/clapham-common-pillbox-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Clapham Common Pillbox &#8211; (Removed)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The picture shows a Pillbox built in 1940 and demolished in 1950. It was sited to defend a HAA Battery situated on the common where at one point Sir Mortimer Wheeler was in command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-06-0002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"755\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-06-0002-1024x755.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11272\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-06-0002-1024x755.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-06-0002-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-06-0002-768x566.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-06-0002-1536x1132.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-06-0002-2048x1509.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-06-115656-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"452\" height=\"698\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-06-115656-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-06-115656-1.png 452w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-06-115656-1-194x300.png 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture shows a Pillbox built in 1940 and demolished in 1950. It was sited to defend a HAA Battery situated on the common where at one point Sir Mortimer Wheeler was in command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,373,2,359],"tags":[955,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-11271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"category-greater-london","9":"category-home-front","10":"category-the-mills-collection","11":"tag-clapham","12":"tag-pillbox","13":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}