The Arun - Ouse stop line

In an attempt to mimic Night Crawlers epic achievement I'm going to try and visit the sites along the stop line I live on over the next few weeks. For lack of an official name I'm calling it the Arun - Ouse stop line after the two rivers it follows. First up a Type28A which isn't on the DoB and a couple of coffins at a crossing of the river Arun near Broadbridge Heath.

The Type 28A is in the back garden of a rather lovely farm house and therefore inaccessible. I might go back without the family and request a look inside another time.







View across the river to the front of the pillbox.



The coffins (DoB S0002223) are about 100m to the west of the pillbox and have been completely uprooted to allow access for farm vehicles.






The Power Ranger and Clone Trooper in mufti are elite members of the Auxiliary units which have only just heard the war is over. They've been hiding out in the bushes here like Chuck Norris for the last 65 years.



More to come.

Steve

Just realised I should have posted this in WW2 defences can you move it please Krela?

Good luck,looking foward to the rest of your reports.

I'm intrigued by the shape of the type 28a in your photos.Around here they are just plain oblongs; in your second photo are those two walls one end so to speak? Also is there a wall around the entrance?

Ooh, good stuff. Great seeing more lines of defence being documented.
That reminds me to get out and continue my bit of the Taunton Stop Line, before the nettles and brambles grow again!
Look forward to seeing more.

Philip said:

Good luck,looking foward to the rest of your reports.

I'm intrigued by the shape of the type 28a in your photos.Around here they are just plain oblongs; in your second photo are those two walls one end so to speak? Also is there a wall around the entrance?

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The shadowing is slightly confusing in the second picture (I'm still getting used to a new camera). I couldn't see the far end so can't comment on that but the closer end does indeed have a chamfered corner on the front face and two longer angled walls separated by a shorter one, making it more like a lozenge pillbox. The back angled wall doesn't have an embrasure though. This arrangement would give the forward face with the rifle embrasure a much better field of fire over the crossing that the coffins guard. The entrance does have a blast wall which is usual for a type28A in these parts. The oddly shaped infantry chamber isn't unique. The Type 28A at Bodiam castle has a three sided infantry chamber but with walls equal lengths and an embrasure in each, and there are other examples in Surrey.

Here's an enhanced image showing the unusual shape of the infantry chamber

Last photo alot clearer!None like that here in Essex.

Thanks for that.

Great stuff mate. Any more pics of the coffins as I have a feeling I might have just come across a couple the other day but I'm not sure as I've never seen them before

Excellent post cptpies , some interesting stuff there loved the type 28a. Cant wait for the next installment.

jonney said:

Great stuff mate. Any more pics of the coffins as I have a feeling I might have just come across a couple the other day but I'm not sure as I've never seen them before

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If you have found some you are a very lucky man as these are pretty much unique to this stop line. There is a set near Southampton and a set in North London but all the rest are in Sussex. I'm sure there are more to be found on this stop line alone.

Excillent stuff and some thing different to the type 22's I'm so used to

Here's a better pic of what a coffin looks like in-situ, unfortunately taken on my camera phone. This is DoB S0008042 just SW of Handcross there is a line of 6 here blocking the Handcross road, covered by a Type 28A. Better pics of these will come in the future.