Daily Archives: 8th March 2015
I remembered seeing these pillboxes years ago when I was on holiday and as I was in the […]
Cayton Bay
The River Medway & GHQ Line at Teston. The village of Teston [pronounced Teason] is on the north […]
Defending Teston Bridge
River Medway and Barming Bridge. Ngr TQ725539 Over grown Type 24 Pillbox covering Barming Bridge, the Anti tank […]
Barming Bridge
Ashurst FW3/24 Pillbox Picture by David Ottway This is a short article on the GHQ line between the […]
Ashurst & Penshurst GHQ Line
Viaduct Pillboxes. Adisham Viaduct in East Kent is unusual in that it has two pillboxes built into the […]
Adisham Viaduct
Relief Landing Ground at NGR: SP175036 A ‘Farm’ at the WWII RLG, RAF Southrop, Gloucestershire is defended by […]
RAF Southrop Defences
Wickham Bishops Road Defences, Witham, Essex Today I visited a site at Wickham bishops road, Essex. It is recorded by Fred […]
Wickham Bishops Road
I took these photos last year in the summer at Walton on the Naze and I don’t think […]
Walton on the Naze
Hornchurch Tett Turret. NGR: TQ 5384 Hornchurch Tett Turret. NGR: TQ 5384 Hornchurch Tett Turret. NGR: TQ 5384 […]
RAF Hornchurch Tett Turrets
Chris Stewart-Moffitt has formed the Military Fortifications Rescue, Research & Restoration Group Covering the County of Essex, the […]
Essex Artifacts
Cox Hill, Lawford, Essex I found the PSG web site very interesting and was able to identify the […]
Cox’s Hill
What Are These? I found these some years ago at Bradwell Bay Airfield [Fighter Bomber Station WW2]. Has […]
Bradwell Bay
Rectangular MMG Emplacements at Rye Harbour Photographs sent to the PSG by Dr Barry Yates These local design […]
Rye Harbour S0006989 and S0006988
Worbarrow Bay Revisited Worbarrow Bay, Dorset. I first visited Warbarrow Bay near Lulworth Cove back in 1996 as […]
Worbarrow Bay
OS 194 SY7713-8084 Is it a Pillbox or is it an Observation Post? Have you ever come across […]
White Nothe Pillpost
Nothe Fort, Weymouth, Dorset. Visiting Weymouth on a fine day in August, I decided to take a […]
Weymouth Searchlights
Looking Back At Weymouth’s  Defences. A 1980’S Photographic Record Of Weymouth’s WWII Defences By Kevin Briggs.
Weymouth Retrospective
Fort Henry, Redend Point, Studland Bay. Dorset. NGR: SZ 038 828 On top of Redend Point, Studland Bay, […]
Fort Henry
Ringstead Bay, Weymouth OS194 Â Remains Of Type 25 Pillboxes. by Graham G Matthews
Demolished Concrete
These unusual pillboxes are located at Sennen Cove, Cornwall, just around the corner from Land’s End. This pillbox […]
Sennen Cove
St Michael’s Mount OS: 203 Land’s End NGR: SW 5145 – 2990 (Centre of island)  ‘One-Off’ Design Pillbox […]
St Michael’s Mount
Camouflaged Pillbox OS 203: Lands End. NGR: SW 5205 – 4040 Pedn Olva Point This is a very […]
St Ives
OS Sheet 203: Land’s End Porthleven is a small fishing village situated on the edge of Mount’s Bay […]
Porthleven
Porthcurno WWII Communication Bunker & Anti-Invasion Defences A Photographic ‘Look-back’ OS Sheet 203 Porthcurno, near ‘Lands End’ Porthcurno […]
Porthcurno Comms Bunker
Type 24 Pillbox Overlooking Anti-Tank Wall A Type 24 Pillbox located on the small headland that separates Kennack […]
Kennack Sands
OS 203: Land’s End Type 24 Pillbox Grid Ref: SW 5870-2758 This Type 24 Pillbox is located on […]
Hendra Beach
Pendennis Castle, Cornwall Pendennis Castle guards the entrance to the River Fal at Falmouth, Cornwall. Originally built by […]
Half Moon Battery
OS Sheet 203: Land’s End Fishing Cove, Gunwalloe, is situated at the very southern end of Loe Bar, […]
Gunwalloe
A Type 27 Pillbox placed on top of an embankment overlooking the river Dee and RAF Sealand.
RAF Sealand Type 27
NGR SJ 5922-5763 I took these photographs of the remaining seagull trench at the former RAF Calveley, near […]
RAF Calveley Seagull Trench
Arp Signal Box The great increase in railway activity in WW2 led to the development of a new […]
Crewe Coalyard
Seaplane Pillbox OS118 NGR: SJ926654 On a recent visit to the Peak District National Park I decided to […]
Bosley Reservoir
Although not a pillbox here is a wartime structure that I found in Berkshire in an area known […]
Wartime Concrete
Kennet & Avon Canal, Berkshire NGR: SU618686. Having just joined the Pillbox Study Group and having received my […]
Ufton Bridge Pillbox
GHQ Stop-Line, Tidmarsh, Berkshire. Bridges Were Hastily Erected To Provide Access To The Pillboxes. By Mike Quigley
Tidmarsh Pillboxes
Under Threat!  Berkshire GHQ Line Vickers Machine Gun Pillbox M4 Junction 11 April 2008 Berkshire’s possible sole surviving […]
M4 Vickers Machine Gun Pillbox
Following on from his recent information on Wartime Concrete in Berkshire, Philip came across this carving in a […]
Lester Birky Carving
Dunmill Lock, Hungerford Common, Berkshire Anti-Tank Defences On Hungerford Common Situated between the railway line and the Kennet […]
Hungerford Common Anti-Tank Defences
NGR SU 680-706 At Burghfield, just a few miles South-west of Reading in Berkshire can be found an […]
Burghfield Fortified Building
Located on the B3349 near Wokingham/Aborfield. NGR: SU777668 This rectangular bullet proof  variant design  can be found close to the […]