Committed to the study and preservation of 20th Century pillboxes and anti-invasion defences – In the UK and around the world

Tim Denton

Yarnold Sangar
Key Facts No doubt many of you will have noticed the large number of Concrete `Pipe` type pillboxes […]

January 3, 2013 in Variant And Local Designs / Variant and Local Designs Part 2 O - Z by Tim Denton

Tett Turret
Key facts Tett turrets at RAF Hornchurch, Essex The former airfield at RAF Hornchurch in Essex boasts the […]

January 3, 2013 in Variant And Local Designs / Variant and Local Designs Part 2 O - Z by Tim Denton

Seagull Trench
Airfield Defence Pillbox The first thing that people say when they see a Seagull Trench is “Look at […]

January 3, 2013 in Variant And Local Designs / Variant and Local Designs Part 2 O - Z by Tim Denton

Pillbox Gun Mounts
Turnbull Mounts Turnbull mounts were not exclusively used for mounting Vickers machine-guns but Brens, Lewis, water cooled Brownings […]

January 3, 2013 in Variant And Local Designs / Variant and Local Designs Part 2 O - Z by Tim Denton

Pre-Fab Pillbox
Key Facts

January 3, 2013 in Variant And Local Designs / Variant and Local Designs Part 2 O - Z by Tim Denton

Pickett-Hamilton Fort
Key Facts The ‘Lifting & Turning Fort’ In the summer of 1940 many engineering companies approached government departments […]

January 3, 2013 in Variant And Local Designs / Variant and Local Designs Part 2 O - Z by Tim Denton

Mushroom Pillbox
Key Facts Circular Design 360 degree field of fire low profile Gun mounted on railed mounting Usually found […]

January 3, 2013 in Variant And Local Designs / Variant and Local Designs part 1 A - N by Tim Denton

EXDO Posts
Extended Defence Officer Posts The function of EXDO (or, equally valid for this context. XDO) in the Royal […]

January 3, 2013 in Variant And Local Designs / Variant and Local Designs part 1 A - N by Tim Denton

Bison Mobile Pillbox
Key Facts

January 3, 2013 in Variant And Local Designs / Variant and Local Designs part 1 A - N by Tim Denton

Beehive Pillbox
Key Facts See The Northumberland Beehive Pillbox for more details

January 3, 2013 in Variant And Local Designs / Variant and Local Designs part 1 A - N by Tim Denton

Allan-Williams Turret
Key facts Allan-Williams Turrets at Bembridge Fort, Isle of Wight in 1988Photographs Kevin Briggs

January 3, 2013 in Variant And Local Designs / Variant and Local Designs part 1 A - N by Tim Denton

The Atlantic Wall
A ‘Beginners’ Guide for visitors As a fairly regular Visitor to the Pas-De-Calais I decided one day to […]

January 3, 2013 in War Walks by Tim Denton

Offchurch Bombing Decoy Site
Having decided to visit the Bombing Decoy Site at Offchurch we travelled eastwards along the Grand Union Canal […]

January 3, 2013 in War Walks by Tim Denton

Hong Kong Wong Nai Chung Gap Defences
WW2 History Trail in Hong Kong by Graham G. Matthews In Hong Kong This walk traces the battle […]

January 3, 2013 in War Walks by Tim Denton

Napton to Priors Hardwick Defences
Myself and two friends decided to investigate the canal between Napton and Priors Hardwick which formed part of […]

January 3, 2013 in War Walks by Tim Denton

Dorking GHQ Line B
WW2 Defences beside the River Mole After an early morning visit to Dorking my wife and I decided […]

January 3, 2013 in War Walks by Tim Denton

Tim & Graham with a replica Vickers Machine gun in one of the open emplacements — Abbotsbury Beach Defences
A Walk Along Chesil Beach Abbotsbury Open Machine Gun Emplacements & Defences NGR: SY5665984083 & SY5666484097 During August […]

January 3, 2013 in War Walks by Tim Denton

Tim Denton & Graham G Matthews with the 'rescued' East Stoke Type 22 Pillbox. — Operation ‘Cloudburst’
A very clean and intact type 22 saw daylight again on 1st June 2010. The Pillbox had lain […]

January 3, 2013 in Rescue Archaeology by Tim Denton

Ewshot & Operation Cromwell Part 2
February 2010, A type 24 emerges from the undergrowth. On a cold and wet February day a keen […]

January 3, 2013 in Rescue Archaeology by Tim Denton

Hampshire 8-Sided Pillbox
Re-Discovered, A Hampshire 8 Sided Pillbox. A forgotten and unusual pillbox re-appeared again late October 2008 when myself, […]

January 3, 2013 in Rescue Archaeology by Tim Denton

Maiden Newton Pillbox Rescue
As part of the Maiden Newton at War Weekend members of the Pillbox Study Group carried out a […]

January 3, 2013 in Rescue Archaeology by Tim Denton

Shellproof FW3/24 Rescue Archaeology
March 2008 saw myself and PSG member Tim Burt meet up to work on an overgrown Type […]

January 3, 2013 in Rescue Archaeology by Tim Denton

Dragons Teeth Cleaning
Early inÂ JanuaryÂ 2008Â IÂ completed a relatively easy task exposing a fine collection of dragons teeth that had become virtually hidden […]

January 3, 2013 in Rescue Archaeology by Tim Denton

Vickers Emplacement ‘Make Over’
I had been given permission by the landowner to carry out a study on the Vickers machine gun […]

January 3, 2013 in Rescue Archaeology by Tim Denton

TULKS HILL OBSERVATION PILLBOX — Operation ‘Family Affair’
Restoration Of The Tulk‘s Hill Observation Pillbox When you have been married to a ‘Pillbox Spotter’ for as […]

January 3, 2013 in Rescue Archaeology by Tim Denton

River Whitewater Shellproof Pillbox Rescue Archaeology
Revealed, a long hidden Hampshire Pillbox. On a bitterly cold day during January 2007, Graham Matthews and I […]

January 3, 2013 in Rescue Archaeology by Tim Denton

Crookham Shellproof ‘Makeover’
Study & ‘Makeover’ Of A Shellproof Pillbox The pillboxÂ is on private land near to the GHQ line at […]

January 3, 2013 in Rescue Archaeology by Tim Denton

Operation ‘Team Time Trench’
Restoration Of The ‘Dorset Round Type’ One-Off Design Pillbox At Sy 7600-9060 Initial Thoughts Whilst travelling around the Dorset countryside in […]

January 3, 2013 in Rescue Archaeology by Tim Denton

Norcon Pillbox Type CP/6/40/111
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Key Facts Pre-cast concrete pipe 6 feet in diameter with 4 inch thick wall After casting it […]

December 26, 2012 in Variant And Local Designs / Variant and Local Designs part 1 A - N by Tim Denton

Vickers Machine Gun Emplacement
Key Facts Build variations can be found with different positioning of secondary loopholes and air vent, length and […]

December 25, 2012 in Variant And Local Designs / Variant and Local Designs Part 2 O - Z by Tim Denton

Type 28 Pillbox
Key Facts FW3/28 Generally, the pillboxes are positioned to allow the gun to fire along fixed lines, such […]

December 23, 2012 in Pillbox Types by Tim Denton

Type 27 Pillbox
Key facts

December 23, 2012 in Pillbox Types by Tim Denton

Type 26 Pillbox
Key facts This is probably the simplest of all but not the most common pillbox type. Variations in the […]

December 23, 2012 in Pillbox Types by Tim Denton

Type 25 Pillbox
Key facts Information obtained from pillbox typology part 4 in Loopholes journal of the PSG. With kind permission of Mike […]

December 23, 2012 in Pillbox Types by Tim Denton

Type 23 Pillbox
Key facts Official designation: fw3/23 Shape: rectangular Square pillbox with an integral measurement of 8ft (2.4m) Integral open […]

December 23, 2012 in Pillbox Types by Tim Denton

Type 22 Pillbox
Key Facts One of the areas for most variation will be found in the shape of the Loopholes […]

December 23, 2012 in Pillbox Types by Tim Denton

Roadblocks
When invasion panic ensued in 1940 road blocks were thrown up everywhere, mainly to the detriment of the […]

December 20, 2012 in Home Front Sites / WWII Defensive Structures by Tim Denton

Stanton Air Raid Shelter
The Stanton air-raid shelter was manufactured by the Stanton Ironworks Co Ltd near Nottingham (the iron connection is […]

December 20, 2012 in Home Front Sites / WWII Defensive Structures by Tim Denton

Battle Headquarters
The reason for their construction on or very near Airfields is to provide the ‘Station Commander’ with a […]

December 20, 2012 in WWII Defensive Structures by Tim Denton

Spigot Mortar
Whilst rummaging through files recently at the Public Record Office I came across substantial material on the Spigot […]

December 20, 2012 in WWII Defensive Structures by Tim Denton