{"id":5391,"date":"2015-03-08T17:11:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T17:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2025-09-27T15:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:50:27","slug":"rugby-anti-tank-defences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/rugby-anti-tank-defences\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby Anti-Tank Defences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Collection of Roadblock Cylinders and Rails.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These road block components were found along\u00a0Brownsover\u00a0Lane just off the A246 near Rugby. A group of cylinders covered in moss were laying on a fields edge just beside a right hand bend.<\/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\/rugbyantitank11.jpg\"><img data-dominant-color=\"7f8379\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #7f8379;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"12268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rugbyantitank11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12268 not-transparent\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rugbyantitank11.jpg 800w, 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decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"12275\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rugbyantitank9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12275 not-transparent\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rugbyantitank9.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rugbyantitank9-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rugbyantitank9-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rugbyantitank6.jpg\"><img data-dominant-color=\"7e897d\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #7e897d;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"12265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rugbyantitank6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12265 not-transparent\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rugbyantitank6.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rugbyantitank6-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rugbyantitank6-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Alan Orton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Collection of Roadblock Cylinders and Rails. These road block components were found along\u00a0Brownsover\u00a0Lane just off the A246 near Rugby. A group of cylinders covered in moss were laying on a fields edge just beside a right hand bend. Continuing down the lane towards the Ambulance station a further cylinder was seen laying beside a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[77,78,234],"class_list":{"0":"post-5391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-warwickshire","8":"tag-anti-tank","9":"tag-defences","10":"tag-rugby","11":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391","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=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}