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Small brick, thick walled building. It appears to have had a dummy roof, now gone. Concrete roof now visible where false roof has gone. One embrasure; oddly, the entrance faces field of fire - this may be due to lie of land. Most probably this site was a defence post.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/02/02)


      

        Official Name
        RAF Cosford
      

      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX
      

      

        Location
        On side of railway embankment by Cosford Railway Station, overlooking airfield

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Albrighton, Shropshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SJ 798 053
             (Scale: 1:50000
              , 1981)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Lowry, Bernard (Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 RAF Cosford defences - Perimeter defences 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX - S0005941
         

     (3) - external views (1 DIGITISED - Clarke).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0005941

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, In 1998/02/02 

            Field Visit, During 2000 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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