{"id":5301,"date":"2015-03-08T16:41:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T16:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2025-10-06T13:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:56:04","slug":"wartime-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wartime-concrete\/","title":{"rendered":"Wartime Concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Although not a pillbox here is a wartime structure that I found in Berkshire in an area known to have been used by the 501st and 101st Airborne during the build up to D-Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Mystery<\/a>
Mystery Building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It is about 15ft by 8ft divided into three segments. Two small rooms and a central entrance with 9 inch thick in-situ concrete wing walls to the left and right allowing access round the ends into the small rooms. There is a brick `thing` about the size of a toilet inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The little squares to the front face (and to the rear as well) are tapered slots\/windows with a tapered piece of concrete plugging them up. The plugs appear to be original and not put in later to fill up the hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Mystery<\/a>
Mystery Building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The internal height is about 6ft max. Around the top of the walls internally is a timber board let into the concrete which may or may not have served a purpose (securing something to the walls?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The roof is again in-situ concrete with a rebate to the junction between wall and roof. the position of the door frame was also let into the concrete which all seems too complicated unless it served a specific purpose. There is no evidence of any blast walls in front of the access door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears to be an ammunition store with what could be a fuse store in brick to one side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any Thoughts????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Philip William Bellew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although not a pillbox here is a wartime structure that I found in Berkshire in an area known to have been used by the 501st and 101st Airborne during the build up to D-Day. It is about 15ft by 8ft divided into three segments. Two small rooms and a central entrance with 9 inch thick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[90],"class_list":{"0":"post-5301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berkshire","8":"tag-concrete","9":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301","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=5301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}