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Mudchute HAA Battery

Two anti-aircraft guns were mounted on the fort's roof during WW2. The fort was also used by the Royal Navy Auxiliary Service.

section posts

Pillbox S0006157 near Woodchurch, The Wirral.

Pillbox, Wingham

AT Blocks behind Lowestoft.

AT Blocks behind Lowestoft.

25Pdr Gun Emplacement at Amberley Castle

structures from Looe Coastal Battery visible in the 1948 AP

Seems to be a bespoke pillbox built into the wall and partially into the road on the edge of the factory yard. Would have covered the road bridge to the west.

At the top right is shown the premises of the British Tabulating Machine Company. Throughout the Second World War, this company designed (under its chief engineer, Harold (Doc) Keen) and built the Turing Bombe code breaking machines used at Bletchley Park and, later, elsewhere to decipher enemy signals sent via their Enigma equipment.

Pier split in two to prevent its use as an invasion landing stage.

See the map on page 7 of the English Heritage Research Report 39-2013 ( http://services.english-heritage.org.uk/ResearchReportsPdfs/039_2013WEB.pdf )for the locations of six Diver box light anti-aircraft batteries and a pillbox at Rosecourt Barn.



Operation Diver took place between June and September 1944. Diver was the code name for the German V1 flying bomb and Operation Diver was the co-ordinated raft of measures to overcome the threat that the V1s / Doodlebugs posed. Up to this point in the war, anti-aircraft batteries were fixed and permanent. Under Diver, temporary, mobile batteries were set up and moved to the areas of perceived threat. As a consequence, very little evidence remains to show where these were. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Diver#End_of_operations and http://services.english-heritage.org.uk/ResearchReportsPdfs/021_2013WEB.pdf

Good view of Gatwick in 1953

MI5 safe house, 61 Richmond Park Road, Barnes. During 1944 this house, provided by MI5, was home for Roman Czerniawaski, aka Agent Brutus / Armand / Walenty (MI5), aka Agent Hubert (Abwehr, the Nazi foreign intelligence and espionage organisation) and his wife. Roman Czerniawaski was one of the key wartime agents involved in the Double Cross deception of Hitler and the German high command as to the place and timing of the invasion of France in 1944.

See Double Cross, the true story of the D-Day spies by Ben Macintyre, published by Bloomsbury

35 Crespigny Road, Hendon was used by MI5 as a safe house for double agent Juan Pujol Garcia and his family. Agent Garbo, as he was named by MI5 was a crucial member of the group of double agents involved in Operation Fortitude, the fictitious invasion of France across the Straights of Dover to the Pas de Calais. This involved feeding false information to the Abwehr and from there to the German high command and Hitler; this was so successful that the Germans believed it would still happen months after D-Day and so kept many German divisions away from the battle in Normandy.

See Double Cross, the true story of the D-Day spies by Ben Macintyre, published by Bloomsbury.

Liberton HAA battery

WW2 Anti tank pimples

Previously unrecorded gun emplacement in the grounds of Rochester castle.

Railblock? Looks like a block with a slot to take a horizontal rail.Frant, Maidstone.

Pillbox and anti tank blocks, maidstone.

Pillboxes, CASLs, Spigot Mortar and XDO Post at Beacon Hill Fort.

Coast Artillery Battery and Searchlight. Harwich.

Coastal Observation Post, Felixstowe

Suffolk Square and Bofors emplacement, Felixstowe.

Type 26 Pillbox at Hamble Airfield.

XDO post S0012712

WW2 Pillboxes

WW2 Pillbox

WW2 Pillbox

Pillbox S0011637 near Newhaven.

WW2 Pillbox

2 x pillboxes in view

HAA Battery e13008

WW2 Pillbox

SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT

Background shows Cliffe Fort, two 4 inch anti aircraft guns mounted on the roof during WW2.

CASL x 3

previously unrecorded pillbox ... perhaps a sand bagged Norcon?

This image shows the GPO's Research Centre, Dollis Hill. This site was vital for the work undertaken to design and build Colossus, the World's first electronic, programmable computer in 1943. This became an essential part of the work at Bletchley Park in deciphering codes that the Germans considered unbreakable.



Dollis Hill was also the site of Paddock, the reserve Cabinet War Room completed in 1940.

From 1942 Cooling Radio Station was the first and only point in Britain at which secure shortwave radio telephone signals could be received from the US. This enabled direct voice communication between Roosevelt and Churchill. Signals to the US were transmitted via Rugby.



To the North of the radio station was an Admiralty Station Y U-boat direction finding post, although nothing remained of this when the photo' was taken.

Folkestone west Battery 1946 e25273

This image shows petrol storage tanks, hidden to protect them from German attack, that subsequently formed part of the PLUTO fuel pipeline supplying Allied troops in France after the D-Day invasion.

Excellent view of the defences at Hoo St Werburgh

Pillboxes on the Medway.

Type 26 Pillbox Newport.

Type 22 Pillbox and AT Blocks, Foryd.

Pillboxes on the sea wall, Canvey Island.

Type 24 on the seawall at the Shell Haven refinery.

Bofors Tower at the Hoffmans factory, Chelmsford.

WW2 Pillbox

what appears to be an extended line of AT obstacles runs across fields... unusual shape - perhaps tetrahedra?

Anti Tank Blocks, Frinton-on-Sea

Anti Tank Blocks, Frinton-on-Sea

Anti Tank Pimples, Frinton-on-Sea

Type 22 pillbox, Frinton-on-Sea

Anti Tank Blocks, Wimborne Minster

Anti Tank Blocks, Wimborne minster

various WWII structures

another view of Berwick upon Tweed

another view of Berwick upon Tweed

Details provided of the PLUTO assembly facilities within Tilbury Docks

In the foreground are Sandown Granite Fort, the Grand Hotel and the dummy ice cream parlour which were all part of the PLUTO line supplying fuel for the liberation of France in 1944. See also image EAW022216.

Image includes several buildings that were vital parts of PLUTO, the Pipeline Under The Ocean, supplying petrol to the Allied forces in Normandy after the D Day invasion.

PLUTO, the Pipeline Under The Ocean, was laid from Shanklin Chine to Cherbourg on the 12th August 1944 and provided a constant supply of petrol to the allied forces during the liberation of France.

During 1938, R.D. Brimmell, the Borough Engineer, put forward plans for a network of tunnels incorporating the old railway tunnel, to provide deep level air raid shelters. These were opened on the 1st June 1939 and provided accommodation for up to 60,000 people. There were 22 entrances including the lower railway tunnel entrance and one in Arklow Square which may both be seen on the photo (although I don't know the precise position of the Arklow Square entrance).

WW2 Type 28 Pillbox

WW2 Pillbox

3 x WW2 Pillboxes

WW2 Pillbox

WW2 Pillbox

WW2 Pillbox

PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24): S0013734

VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT: S0001790

VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT: S0001790

COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY: S0015417

WW2 Coast Battery

WW2 Pillbox

WW2 Anti Tank Cylinders

RAF Ventnor, the three Chain Home receiver towers plus, on the extreme right, part of the foot of a transmitter tower, constructed in 1938 and attacked by the Luftwaffe in August 1940.

Grain Tower Battery, during WW2 a searchlight and twin 6 pdr QF guns were mounted here. See: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/g/grain_tower/index.shtml

New Tavern Fort in the foreground:

'For a while early in WWII a light Anti-Aircraft gun and a Searchlight were mounted on the infilled 6 inch gun emplacements. There was also temporary sandbagged Light Machine gun positions nearby overlooking the river. Fort House became an office for the administration of local food rationing, but a German V2 Rocket fell nearby and the building was badly damaged and had to be demolished. The Victorian and 1904 Magazines were used as Air-Raid shelters for a while, then reportedly the Victorian Magazines were used as a temporary Civil Defence Control Centre and then as a radio relay or monitoring station, two high steel pylon towers were constructed for this purpose. An Air Raid Wardens post was also built near the ditch at the south end of the Fort,this was demolished in the 1980's.' http://www.medwaylines.com/newtavernfort.htm

WW2 pill box in Lower Upnor

The roofs of the Shorts aircraft factory appear to have been camouflaged, although the photo' is dated two months before the outbreak of WWII.

Two gun emplacements built in 1913 east of Shornemead Fort, which due to subsidence could no longer be used. These two emplacements each housed a 5.5 inch naval gun during WW2

Grain Tower, built 1855, during WW2 mounted two 6 pound QF guns and had accommodation block and observation post added.



Wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, US Liberty Ship that ran aground on the 20th August 1944. Cargo salvage had to be given up before all was cleared so the wreck still contains explosives.

Thames estuary sea forts, possibly the 'Nore', Maunsell 'Army' design.

Good afternoon everyone,

I've seen a number of the group's comments relating to sites around the Kent coast, but I can't see that anything has been posted relating to the sea forts off the Kent shore. I've already found these and pinned them, but I'll try to link them to this group too.

WW2 Anti Tank Ditch

WW2 Pillbox

COASTAL OBSERVATION POST: S0006287

WW2 Anti tank cylinders

HAA Battery

COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY: S0015486

COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY: S0015486

COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY: S0015250

WW2 Pillboxes

WW2 Pillboxes

MF DF site perhaps associated with nearby RAF Banff

There appears to be a Chain Home site in the distance.

There was a CHEL tower site and some structures around the location on the 1950 image but don't know if connected.

Ventnor Chain Home radar station

Black Gang GCI radar station

MF DF site - could be part of Niton Radio or military

RAF Longman and fuel tanks

Army Command Ordnance Stores and RAOC Workshops

RAF Connel and WWII railway sidings, the Admiralty paid £15,700 for them in 1940.

RN WWII Signal Station

RAF HDU and another similar but smaller structure

MG Emplacements, Rye.

Ex-situ anti tank blocks used as landfill, Lancing beach.

Previously unrecorded Type 24 Pillbox in Farnham Park.

Clear view of obstacles and Artillery gun house at Sandwich Bay Estate.

Couple of Type 24s near Farnham Castle.

Several Type 22 pillboxes between Great & Little Welnetham on the Eastern Command Corps Stop Line between Long Melford and Bury St. Edmunds

Several Type 22 & Type 27 pillboxes around Great Welnetham on the Eastern Command Corps Stop Line between Long Melford and Bury St. Edmunds

Type 22 AA variant pillbox, Bradfield St Clare.

Dawlish Warren Pillboxes

Large Air Raid Shelter at Hurstmonceaux Castle constructed during its time as a satellite camp of RAF Wartling.

A Couple of HFDF towers near Farningham Fort

Clear view of Pendennis battery, Pendennis Castle.

Dover Quad and Artillery Battery, Western Docks, Dover.

Anti Tank Blocks on the Quay at Wivenhoe

HAA Battery Crewe.

Pillboxes at RAF Tollerton.

Type 22 at Radlett Aerodrome.

Nice view of the East Looe Coast Artillery Battery.

NIce view of the Cissbury Ring Anti Tank Ditch.

Air raid shelters and camouflaged workshops, Rochester.

WWII defensive structures around Dunwich heath

WWII defensive structures around Dunwich heath

WWI defensive structures around Dunwich heath

Type 22 and Suffolk Square Felixstowe

ATB's, SME and practice trenches, Felixtowe

potential previously unrecorded coastal artillery battery - distinct from the well recorded sites at Landguard fort this seems to be an independent battery with two large gunhouses

pillboxes associated with the radar station on Dunwich heath

pillboxes associated with the radar station on Dunwich heath

Inner perimeter pillboxes, ROF Glascoed. Previously unrecorded.

WW2 Anti Tank Blocks

second AA variant T24 Pillbox

second AA variant T24 Pillbox

WW2 Pillboxes

elements of Nesscliffe Ordnance depot at Shrawardine on the line of the requisitioned Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway see http://www.hfstephens-museum.org.uk/smlr/the-smr-in-world-war-ii

Type 22 Pillbox, e10014

Type 22 Pillbox e20703 and possible spigot mortar pedestals.

AT Blocks discarded as sea defences, Blyth harbour.

Previously unrecorded Anti Tank Blocks, Homersfield.

Pillbox e24133, Homersfield.

Various shelters at a dispersed site, RAF Graveley.

Nice view of some of the AT defences to the south of Ashford.

25yd firing range

WW2 Pillbox & Anti-tank blocks

WWII HAA Battery. Stanlow

PILLBOX (ESSEX LOZENGE): e09693

WW2 Anti Tank Dragon's teeth

WW2 Pillbox

A very clear view of the BHQ at Filton.

Although this has been described as a boat yard, it was in fact an aircraft factory.

In 1912 Hamble River Engineering Co and Luke & Co joined forces to build the HL1 floatplane which was never completed. The companies two sheds were requisitioned by the Admiralty in December 1914. Fairey Aviation was offered the site for the erection and testing of its seaplanes and moved in late 1917. Fairey Aviation continued to use the site until 1945 when it was transferred to an associated boat building company,Fairey Marine, however, aircraft production and conversion continued on the site until at least 1955.

SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT: e23882

PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24): S0007651

WW2 Pillboxes

I believe this is an unrecorded Pillbox similar to the other variants in the area... .thoughts?

Pillboxes and Spigot Mortars, Great Yarmouth.

WW2 pillbox

WW2 Searchlight

WW2 EXTENDED DEFENCE OFFICERS POST: S0012712

Emergency Coast Artillery Battery. Port Talbot

Emergency Coast Artillery Battery. Port Talbot.

Variant pillbox near Usk

25 Yard Small Arms Range at RAF Cardiff

Emergency Coast Artillery Battery, Port Talbot. Previously unrecorded.

Emergency Coast Artillery Battery, Port Talbot. Previously unrecorded.

Littlehampton AT Blocks

Field Gun Emplacement, Littlehampton.

WW2 Pillbox

WW2 Pillbox

WW2 Pillbox

Penshurst pillboxes

WW2 anti tank pimples & roadblock

WW2 Anti Tank Pimples

WW2 Pillbox & Spigot Mortars

PIllbox, Buxted Park.

Type 24 Pillbox, Chard Junction

Type 25's Bromborough.

Probable Type 25, Bromborough.

Dispersal Pens and Small Arms range at RAF Snailwell

WWII HAA Battery, West Bromwich.

Coast Artillery Battery and Defences, Hunstanton.

PIllboxes and Spigot Mortars, Great Yarmouth

Pillboxes and Spigot Mortars, Great Yarmouth.

HAA Battery ZE16

Type 26 Pillbox, Tower of London.

Gun emplacements and AT Obstacles, Dover Castle

Coast Artillery Battery

Anti Tank Blocks, Loxford.

Type 24 Pillbox

Type 24 Pillbox and probable AT cylinders at Lower Upnor

Anti Tank Pimples at the road bridge, Chartham

Anti Tank Pimples at the road bridge, Chartham

Pillbox, top left corner of the image.

WW2 Pillbox

River Parret Defences Bridgwater

River Parret Defences Bridgwater

Type 28 Infantry Variant, Blindley Heath

WW2 Anti Tank Blocks

HAA Battery and Fuel Depot, Compton Greenfield.

AT Blocks, Sunderland Docks

HAA Battery Hoylake.

Unrecorded Coast Artillery Searchlights and possible BOP at Southsea.

WW2 Anti Tank Blocks

WW2 Anti Tank Blocks

WW2 COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY: S0015123

WW2 Pillbox

PILLBOX (VARIANT): S0013256

Pillbox

WW2 EXTENDED DEFENCE OFFICERS POST

Anti Tank Blocks

Coastal Battery

Pillboxes, RAF Horsham St Faith.

Blast shelters RAF Wombleton.

Type 24 Pillbox on the Grand Union Canal.

Air Raid Shelters at Standard Motor Company, Coventry.

Communal Air Raid Shelters, Birkenhead Park.

AT vertical rail blocks, Chelmsford town centre.

Anti Tank Blocks, Sunderland Docks.

HAA Battery Avonmouth Docks

And in this one too.

Some of the pillboxes and gun emplacements from the Taunton Stopline and the later Chard Anti Tank Island are clearly visible in this image

Various WW2 Gun Batteries, Searchlights, AA Guns & Fuel Tanks

Various WW2 structures including Coastal Gun Battery & Searchlight, pillboxes and site of Exercise Splint.

Rifle Range on Black Head used by British Army, the Home Guard and US Army, plus St Austell Bay Bombing Range Quadrant Shelters (both are visible in this photo).

WW2 Pillboxes - anti-invasion defences 1940-41

Barrage Balloon

WW2 AA Battery

WW2 Pillbox and anti tank blocks

WW2 Coast Artillery Guns

Site of WW2 anti tank blocks

WW2 Anti Tank Blocks

RDF Tower, possibly associated with RAF Lasham

WW2 Pillbox

WW2 Type 28 Pillbox

Type 28 Pillbox

WW2 Pillbox

HAA Battery Bidston.

Anti Glider poles on the beach at Kenfig. Previously unrecorded.

Cluster of Pillboxes at Lisburn Airfield. Listed as a strongpoint e24528

Pillboxes and Seagull Trench Variants, RAF Kemble.

XDO Post Torquay.

Pillbox on the promenade, Porthcawl.

WWII Coast Artillery Battery, Cardiff docks. previously unrecorded.

Northam CH radar station

Coastal Artillery Search Lights & Battery

HAA Battery nr fabian Way

CASL's and probable coast artillery battery.

Previously unrecorded anti tank blocks, Kinmel Bay.

Previously unrecorded anti tank blocks, Kinmel Bay.

Anti Landing Trenches on Canvey Island.

AT Defences at Furnace Pond, Slaugham.

Essex Lozenges at Holehaven wharf.

Pillboxes at Canvey Island.

Almost Top down view of the Filton Mystery structure.

Another angle on the mystery structure at Filton.

AT Blocks at Arish Mell.

Thorpeness AT blocks

Type 22 Pillbox at Acle Bridge

Type 22 Pillbox at Acle Bridge

Loophole of WW2 Pillbox

WW2 Pillbox

Anti Tank Blocks

Blackgang GCI and Ventnor CHL stations in the same shot.

Ventnor CHL station.

Anti Tank Blocks and Roadblock, Burghead, previously unrecorded.

Broughty Ferry Emergency battery.

Bridgwater defences.

Pillbox, Bridgewater.

AT blocks being re-used as sea defences.

AA Battery - WW2

LAA emplacement and many sectional shelters of different forms centrd on 53°43'27.07"N 0°34'55.92"W probably associated with RAF Brough

RAF Hunsdon, several WWII structures including 6 unrecorded (now removed) blast shelters

Air Raid shelters at 52°46'30.21"N 1°13'14.19"W

WW2 Anti Tank Blocks

WWII public surface shelters these appear to be extant 54°58'36.45"N 1°29'49.19"W

WW2 Pillboxes

COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY

COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY

COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY

WW2 Pillboxes

PETROLEUM WARFARE SITE: S0013746

The site of a temporary Coastal Defence/Chain Home Low (CD/CHL) radar station at Start Point

Spitfire?

Royal Air Force Chain Home Low radar station at Pen Olver

WW2 Bomber Guidance Arrow

Coastal Artillery Battery & Pillboxes

WW2 Searchlight

Woolwich Common HAA site

anti tank ditch

ww2 pillbox

possible pair of unrecorded pillboxes on Bincleaves Groyne Weymouth

WW2 Pillboxes

WW2 Pillbox - Bramley CAD

Coastal Battery Spittal although the battery is alluded to in the description of S0007172 this clearly shows two gunhouses, magazine and apossible pillbox centred on 55°45'36.73"N 1°59'31.74"W

WWII Anti Landing Trenches.

Essex Lozenge, Burnham on Crouch.

Essex Lozenges on Osea island

Quadrant shelter and Essex Lozenge, Bradwell on Sea.

HAA Battery Teeside.

Scars Elbow battery, Canvey Island.

Coast Artillery Battery S0009083 and CASL's, Canvey Island

Type B dispersal pens, Pillboxes and Blast Shelters at Gatwick

Air Raid Shelters at Barton Aerodrome.

see also second triple LAA bay pillbox now removed

Emergency Coast Artillery Battery above Western Docks Dover.

Previously unrecorded Emergency Coast Battery, anti tank cylinders and barbed wire obstacles, Sandwich Bay.

Previously unrecorded Emergency Coast Battery, anti tank cylinders and barbed wire obstacles, Sandwich Bay.

RDF / HFDF station on the cliffs at Scarborough castle.

Emergency battery and CASL's at St Mawes Castle

CASL's at St Mawes castle.

Pillbox at the entrance to the Thomson Electrical works.

Pillbox at the ICI works, Burn Naze.

Anti Tank Blocks, Hoylake.

Anti Tank Blocks, Pillboxes, HAA Battery and Minefields. Leasowe.

LAA Bofors tower in Peartree recreation ground

another ROF guard post

3bay LAA pillbox e29916 and unrecorded ROf guard post similar to S0012434

Exmouth AWT

Two of Falmouth's Heavy Anti Aircraft Batteries

Various WW2 structures

Various WW2 features including Toll Point Battery - the first photo I've seen of the Battery

World War Two features at St Mawes Castle

US military hospital and wartime railway track

Type 24 pillbox

Camouflaged structure needs identification

Various WW2 structures

Various WW2 features

Looe Coast Battery

Looe Coastal Battery

WW2 Firing Position

WW2 features at St Mawes Castle

WW2 features at St Mawes Castle

Pillboxes at St Ives

e10311 An emergency battery of two 12-pounder guns emplaced in August 1940, one on each of the inner pier heads. Initially B Battery, 509 Coast Regt; later 265 Coast Battery RA. This was a difficult command due to the need to detour several miles through Sunderland to get from No.1 Gun on the north pier to No. 2 Gun on the south pier. Despite this, during a 1941 tour of inspection, it is described as a 'good battery' with a note that it lacked a command post and overhead covers. Placed in care and maintenance in April 1944, abandoned December 1944.

Some WW2 features from the American presence in Cornwall prior to D Day

Various WW2 sites and structures.

Anti invasion measures 1940

RAF Dunderhole

Various WW2 sites and events

D Day Embarkation Hard features

Various military structures and camp

Various WW2 structures and camps

Various pillboxes and Radar Stations around Sennen and Lands End

RAF Tollerton Defences.

Eastern Command Pillbox S0004790

Strengthened Type 22 Pillbox, Clacton.

A range of WW2 features along the Helford River

Type 22 Pillbox.

Pen Olver CHL Radar Station

Barrage Balloon RAF Flight Headquarters

Pillboxes defending Hayle

Pillboxes defending Hayle

Pillbox, Dragon's Teeth and Observation Tower

CHL Radar Station at Land's End

Excellent view of the St Mawes Battery and the four searchlight emplacements.

unrecorded T22

WWII structures e20826, 27 and 29

Coastal Defences Alnmouth.

Coastal Defences Alnmouth.

Pillboxes, Admiralty Citadel.

Pillbox Lowestoft Docks

Pillboxes at Broomholme

Pillboxes at Broomholme.

WWII Coast Artillery Batteries, Falmouth

Pillbox or gun position Lyme Regis sea front.

Radar Stations and Anti Glider Ditches.

Pillbox ROF Bridgend

Pillbox ROF Bridgend

Pillbox ROF Bridgend

Pillbox ROF Bridgend

Pillboxes ROF Bridgend

Pillboxes ROF Bridgend

Pillboxes, Ramsgate Harbour.

Type 24 Pillboxes ROF Glascoed.

Type 24 Pillboxes ROF Glascoed.

ROF Pillboxes.

Pillbox, Freshwater bay.

HAA Battery Southwell.

Shoreham airfield defences.

Shoreham airfield defences.

CHEL radara Station and beach defences, Thorpeness.

Emergency Coast Battery and Anti Tank obstacles

Pillboxes on the banks of the Chelmer

Pillboxes on the banks of the Chelmer.

Type 24 Pillbox.

Pillboxes, Grain seawall.

Sheerness Batteries, Searchlights and MG emplacements.

WWII Bofors LAA Emplacements, mouth of the Hamble.

WWII Bofors LAA Emplacements, mouth of the Hamble.

GCI Radar Station, Blackgang Chine.

Coast Artillery Battery and searchlights.

Coast Artillery Battery, Searchlights and unrecorded pillboxes.

Coast Artillery Batteries, The Needles.

WWII Type 22 Pillbox e11692

CHL Station and Pillbox, Isle of Portland

WWII Chain Home Low Radar Station

Previously unrecorded pimples and blocks close to the rail line, Dorking.

WWII Anti Tank Blocks along the rail line, Dorking.

WWII Pillboxes, Coryton refinery seawall

WWII Pillboxes, Coryton refinery seawall.

WWII Variant Type 26 Pillbox e18124

Coast Artillery Batteries and searchlights on Flatholm.

Coast Artillery Battery on Flatholm.

Army Command Ordnance Stores and RAOC Workshops

Two Nissen huts used to transfer ammunition from the railway line to lorries but no more known about the purpose.

Traces of the WWII Decoy Site can just be made out.

Whole island is covered in defences

Whole island is covered in defences

Whole island is covered in defences!

North and South Sutors WWI and WWII Coastal Gun Batteries

WWII Coast Artillery Battery.

WWII Coast Artillery Battery, Queen Alexandra dock, Cardiff.

misidentified PB and possible reclassification from T22 to T27

lots of Bunkers, CASLs and casemate bases here - not strictly defensive but the coastal gunnery school moved here in the war from the Essex coast

z scaffolding

HAA site

HAA Battery, Trafford Park.

two lines of anti tank blocks (removed)

Better view of the AT pimples at Newhaven

good low angle shot of filton mystery structure - none the wiser

almost certainly searchlight emplacements and associated LAA

variant PB

ROF Pillboxes at ROF Drigg.

ROF Pillboxes at ROF Drigg.

Beachy Head Chain Home low radar station

Type 24 Pillboxes defending an unusual structure at Filton.

Group of unusual WWII structures at Filton. Possible BHQ with AA position on top and a Type 24 defending it?

Bofors Tower, Filton.

Bofors Tower, Filton.

Bofors Tower, Filton.

Bofors Tower, Filton.

Live in West Berks, all sorts of WW2 and Cold War structures here. Working on a listing project for West Berks Heritage Forum.

Hello to group members. I have joined the group this morning 30.1.14



May I seek comments on a structure around RAF Filton and the Aircraft Factory just north of Bristol. I have located 3 such structures including the one about 150 yards from my home when I was a lad of 7 years old.



One such structure is to be found in image EAW004188. Just above dead centre and a little to the left is a tower and a white building presumably to house the operators.



I have drawn blanks from my RBL friends from various military backgrounds.



kent2

Bofors Tower at Filton.

Type 22 Pillbox (unrecorded and now removed)

EMERGENCY COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY: S0007362

Coast battery

WW2 Pillbox

Lots of Dover Quads, Citadel, Dover.

Folkestone XDO Post and Coast Artillery Battery

Folkestone Pillbox and Coast Artillery Battery.

WW2 Pillbox

Type 22 Pillbox Sandgate.

Air raid shelters for staff and what possibly looks like either a water tower or an observation/flak tower

WW2 Pillbox

WW2 Coastal Artillery Searchlight

CH19 Northam.

CHL18A Trevose Head.

Beach Defence Battery (S0011298).

Beach Scaffolding on Gwithian beach.