{"id":5369,"date":"2015-03-08T17:10:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T17:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/?page_id=123"},"modified":"2025-09-26T17:45:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:45:45","slug":"cheddleton-blown-up-pillbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/cheddleton-blown-up-pillbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheddleton &#8216;Blown Up&#8217; Pillbox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Churnet Stop-Line, Cheddleton, Staffordshire<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I enclose a couple of pix of the remains of a FW3\/22? at Cheddleton in Staffs by a bridge on the Churnet stop line. You can see the drill holes for the charges: this chunk was left as it formed a low wall above the canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cheddleton1.jpg\"><img data-dominant-color=\"626562\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #626562;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"11970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cheddleton1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11970 not-transparent\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cheddleton1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cheddleton1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cheddleton1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Probably done at the end of the war to get rid of an obstruction. The second pic shows the chunk just below the lorry. A bit further up the road is an Alton-type PB camouflaged to look like a small building but now very overgrown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cheddleton2.jpg\"><img data-dominant-color=\"64767d\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #64767d;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"11971\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cheddleton2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11971 not-transparent\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cheddleton2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cheddleton2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cheddleton2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Bernard Lowry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Churnet Stop-Line, Cheddleton, Staffordshire I enclose a couple of pix of the remains of a FW3\/22? at Cheddleton in Staffs by a bridge on the Churnet stop line. You can see the drill holes for the charges: this chunk was left as it formed a low wall above the canal. Probably done at the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27],"tags":[190,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-5369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"category-staffordshire","9":"tag-cheddleton","10":"tag-pillbox","11":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369","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=5369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}