Sheringham Hidden Pill Box

Hi,

long term lurker and enjoyed reading and viewing all posts from you guys and girls. Standard of photography is also absolutely amazing.

So, last year when camping with the dustbin lids, we found an old pill pox that is buried below a walkway from Sheringham Park to the local beaches. I do not know the history, but the old North Norfolk Railway Line runs nearby. There is a chain of defences along this coastline and specifically in this area.

Photos are shown below and certainly there is evidence in the pill box of someone sleeping rough at some time. I have also included a little nugget at the end of a mortar spigot that is also very close to a pillbox skirting Sheringham Park.

I do not recall seeing these pics on here before, so hope that you enjoy virgin pictures.

Picture 1 - the view from outside.

IMG_0213 by Clinka, on Flickr


Picture 2 - My youngest well into exploring mode

IMG_0217 by Clinka, on Flickr

Picture 3 - The inside ledge

IMG_0224 by Clinka, on Flickr

Picture 4 - What I thought was a body, but only a sleeping bag!

IMG_0226 by Clinka, on Flickr

Picture 5 - Old bed springs

IMG_0225 by Clinka, on Flickr

Picture 6 - Entrance boarded up

IMG_0228 by Clinka, on Flickr

Picture 7 - Concrete roof showing wriggly tin marks

IMG_0221 by Clinka, on Flickr

Pictures 8 & 9 - The mortar spigot

IMG_0230 by Clinka, on Flickr

IMG_0231 by Clinka, on Flickr



I hope you enjoyed my first exploring post?


Near to where I live, a building development has unearthed another pill box that was hidden by dense undergrowth. In the next week, I will try to get this photographed as well as again, think that no-one else has posted it before.

(Krela - your notes for posting pictures are great and easy to follow, even for a dinosaur like me - thankyou)!

Ooooh nice. I'm glad you found it straight forward, that's the general idea!

Wriggly tin, love it! Corrugated iron shuttering is the technical term, with brick shuttering for the walls.

It looks like a light machine gun post from what you've shown.

Cracking find. Looking at the springs I wondered if they had come from an old bus/car seat from the shape?

flyboys90 said:

Cracking find. Looking at the springs I wondered if they had come from an old bus/car seat from the shape?

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Good shout, they do have that shape don't they.

Welcome! Always like a bit of concrete pillbox goodness...

The spigot is interesting as they are usually hard to find, especially ones in good condition like that one. That would have had a Blacker Bombard mounted on it, probably the most useless bit of weaponry ever issued to the British Army.

There's a hidden pillbox near great dunmow in essex that has a couple bed steads that would match those springs ha ha

In good condition that and you found a spigot mortar base. I'm jealous

Thanks Guys.

Ducking my head in preparation for you all throwing things at me, sadly I did not photograph the trenches behind the mortar spigot, (where the trees are in the photo), nor did I do the pill box about 20 meters to the left of it! The pill box is completely locked up and has a painted image of a WW2 soldier in the slot, do didn't interest me. I hang my head in shame, but promise to do it next time I return.

The mortar spigot is actually beside a path and is easy to find and see. I was standing on the path to photograph it.