Surviving Pillbox Photo's

[leon21]

Here are photo's of Pillbox's taken over the years these are all in the Cayton Bay area of Yorkshire.

 

1st three shows the roof of this pillbox slowly being moved of by the tides over time..

 

 

and other pillbox's taken at different times.

[Fritz]

Have a striking similarity to the German versions.

[leon21]

Here's an unusual pill box I  spotted recently outside cottages at Home Farm part of Beamish Living Museum complex.

It was used by the Home Guard  near Durham during WW2, and was made out of half of an egg-ended steam boiler, the

Farm is set in the 1940s and everything inside and out is of the period including this car in one of the barns.

[Fritz]

I doubt if this pillbox would even stand up to bullet or shrapnel fire, as not armoured steel. Illusion of safety.

[Kenny Andrew]

I was thinking that myself, it looks like you could hardly fit a rifle in it, proper Dad's Army 

[leon21]

Called in at Cayton Bay Beach a few weeks ago while on the Yorkshire Coast, not been there for 5 years, I was surprised at the state

of some of the pillbox's  I've seen before.

below  photo's taken by a local newspaper, this pillbox had to be made safe after safety fears, it had started to break down leaving a

large piece of stone in a precarious position. The Borough Council had the section of stone removed in August 2020.

[leon21]

This clifftop pillbox photo's taken by Gaius Cornelius in 2006 shows the outside view and and interior view.

and recent photo's show how it looks to day.