SEVERN ESTUARY REVISITED

Pillbox Study Group member

KEVIN BRIGGS

from Monmouth, has kindly sent in photographs he took in the 1980`s and 1990`s.

The Defence Structures are to be found on the western side of the River Severn.

 

Type 22 Pillbox @ MAGOR (1987)

GRID: ST 4130-8680

Note the very unusual concrete plinths that protrude above each loophole.

Type 24 Pillbox @ Lydney

near Chepstow (1991)

GRID: SO 6420-0140

Type 26 Pillbox @ Lydney (1991)

GRID: SO 6320-0170

PREFABRICATED Type 26 Pillbox

@ BEACHLEY, near CHEPSTOW (1984)

GRID: ST 5480-9030

CANTILEVER TYPE PILLBOX

@ Chapel Farm, MAGOR (1987)

GRID: ST 4430-8520

 

 

SECTION POST@MAGOR (1987)

GRID: ST 8670-4190

Copyright Graham G Matthews@PSG2001