{"id":5363,"date":"2015-03-08T17:01:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T17:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/?page_id=115"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:45:14","slug":"norfolk-pillboxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/norfolk-pillboxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk Pillboxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tony Hendry and son Karl have been about and about looking at the local defences near their home in Norfolk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s great to see a new generation taking a keen interest in military concrete!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Pillbox is located on the A47 on the right side just before you go into Gt Yarmouth. It still has a steel door on & a low gun port which we have not seen before to one side. There is also another box across the road which can be seen in the photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This photo is of the brick pillbox at East Dereham Railway Station, now home of the Mid Norfolk Railway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is a second pillbox in Dereham. It is positioned near the railway line.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This pillbox is located in the village of Hoe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is quite over-grown but you can still get inside it. Again it too is close to the railway line with open fields to the front & a bridge crossing the line to the rear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Tony & Karl Hendry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 Gt Yarmouth. It still has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[61],"class_list":{"0":"post-5363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-norfolk","8":"tag-norfolk","9":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363","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=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}