Well its been a while since I was last out and about and I was starting to get concrete withdrawl symptoms so I thought it was time I got my arse into gear and did something about it. I decided to find some of the pillboxes I missed last time I was up in Northumberland. I will apologuise now for the poor picture quality as I have lost the battery charger for my camera and as the new one still hasn't arrived I have had to use my phone to take the shots.
First stop was Embleton to find 2 pillboxes in the village.I drove past the first one three times before I spotted it. Mother nature is reclaiming this one rapidly (type 24)
View from the road, this is why I nearly missed it
Someone doesn't anyone getting inside this one
The only remaining embrasure
I couldn't get a decent shot through the embrasure but it seemed to be quite clean inside
The second pillbox is a non standard type but much easier to see
internals
Entrance rifle embrasures
someone has tried to make the entrance bigger at some point
I then moved on to the pillboxes on the beach that I missed when my camera battery died last time
the first one being a single embrasured vickers machine gum emplacement
entrance
gun table
strange grooves on the embrasure
Right that's all for now I will post the rest later
First stop was Embleton to find 2 pillboxes in the village.I drove past the first one three times before I spotted it. Mother nature is reclaiming this one rapidly (type 24)
View from the road, this is why I nearly missed it
Someone doesn't anyone getting inside this one
The only remaining embrasure
I couldn't get a decent shot through the embrasure but it seemed to be quite clean inside
The second pillbox is a non standard type but much easier to see
internals
Entrance rifle embrasures
someone has tried to make the entrance bigger at some point
I then moved on to the pillboxes on the beach that I missed when my camera battery died last time
the first one being a single embrasured vickers machine gum emplacement
entrance
gun table
strange grooves on the embrasure
Right that's all for now I will post the rest later