Early in 2017 we received an Email from Jon Mills. He had been interested in Pillboxes and WWII […]
The Mills Collection
The picture shows a Pillbox built in 1940 and demolished in 1950. It was sited to defend a […]
Clapham Common Pillbox – (Removed)
A six-sided lozenge-shaped pillbox, with a blast wall protecting the entrance on the W side. An Orlit aircraft […]
Pillbox (Lozenge): S0013178 (Extant)
Coastal battery. The gun emplacements and revetments are in good condition. Magazines are banked and covered and seem […]
Paull Point Battery- S0012446
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 […]