Yearly Archives: 2017
Civil Air raid shelter built into bank. entrance hidden by hedge. emergency exit in concrete slab next to […]
Durham Road, Sunderland – Air Raid Shelter.
Type 22 now preserved in the new housing estate. The grilles on the loopholes look rather out of […]
West Allotment PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22): e1031.
See WW2 Airfield Battle Headquarters (battlehq.info) for more information about Airfield Battle HQs
BATTLE HEADQUARTERS (11008/41): e40276 Scatsta
This unusual pillbox was in the grounds of a large Victorian house until that was demolished and replaced […]
Variant Pillbox Near Seaton Delaval. e27279.
This pillbox used to have a corrugated iron roof structure above as camouflage.
Bothal, Northumberland D type with entrance passage. S0013378
The maps below clearly show this pillbox to be in the location shown on google earth for S0004624. […]
Duxford Airfield Pillbox for 7 LMGs
Type 24 pillbox on verge of Brampton Road above station. About 50m E of junction with B 1354. […]
Aylsham Pillbox (Type FW3/24): S0005480 and S0005488
Once again it appears the pictures have not aged very well and there are no negatives to scan.
Everton, Hampshire Pillbox S0012876
Just to the south side of southbound platform of elevated tube station and before District Line trains cross […]
Putney Bridge Pillbox: S0000779
Looking through a packet of photographs, I came across two of a two storey, or elevated, pillbox and […]
Croydon, Purley Way. Variant Pillbox
featuring Variant pillbox S0006529 at middle left.
Postcard from Torcross
This one is still extant and appears in good condition.
Wareham, Dorset. Variant Pillbox S0008510.
S0006362 This Type 22 with no ricochet wall and an external blast wall is still extant and in […]
By A134 (Assington Road) Suffolk. S0006362
This small pillbox appears most likely to be S0013698. Marked as removed in the EODBD overlay.
Brentford. Pillbox Just off North Circular (A406).
8 photos over a page and a half in the  photo album included in the collection show 3 […]
Bridgewater, Somerset Pillboxes.
Two variant Pillboxes at Kew Railway Bridge, London. The Pillbox as it appears today The pillbox below is […]
Kew bridge Variant Pillboxes
Pillboxes near Mildenhall, pictures from 1973
Mildenhall Pillboxes
Henry Wills seminal book Pillboxes, A study of U.K. defences 1940 is where much of the interest, there […]
Henry Wills Survey
This Type 24 appears not to be listed in the DOB or EDOB databases. Update 21/6/2020 it now […]
Blackheath Type 24: e41998
The third set of photo’s I decided to scan showed this curious, double decker, pillbox. Checking out it’s […]
Roehampton Vale Double Decker Variant Pillbox
Early in 2017 we received an Email from Jon Mills. He had been interested in Pillboxes and WWII […]