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Type 24 pillbox, thin-walled faces SE.
(Source: Field Visit 1948/03/27)
Type 24 pillbox facing Hopwas Bridge (SE). Built with vertical plank shuttering. Interior access - some rubble inside. Appears to be preserved amongst recent new sewage works.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/10/28)
Bullet-proof concrete pillbox. Disguised as an ash heap. Serial no. 83. Cassini ref. 636257.
(Source: Document 1940/12/27)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        At top of bank above RiverTame, and between river and Birmingham and Fazeley Canal.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Wigginton and Hopwas, Staffordshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SK 17967 05315
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Osborne, Mike (Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Western Command Stop Line No 5 - Tamworth to Burton-on-Trent and thence by River Dove to Ashbourne 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - S0005337
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0005337

      

      

        Reference
        
             1940/12/27 Defence Scheme Staffordshire 2

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2002/10/28 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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