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Type 24, thin-walled pillbox.
(Source: Field Visit )
Hexagonal pillbox defending Lady Bridge.
(Source: Field Visit 1996)
Pillbox, concrete-faced, sunk partly into ground, and with some top earth cover remaining [camouflage]. Entrance is only 49ins high, so there is probably about 2ft below ground. Water-logged. Internal anti-ricochet wall. Sides 60ins long. Entrance, 28ins wide. Overlooked by medieval castle to NE.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/08/24)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        Tamworth, in parkland just to SW of Lady Bridge at junction of River Tame with the Flood Relief Channel.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Tamworth, Staffordshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SK 2046 0379
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 2000)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Flooding (Medium Term) 
Detail: Site of pillbox is waterlogged.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Regan, A. J. (Pillbox Study Group)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Western Command Stop Line No 6 - Tamworth via Trent Valley, E side of Stoke-on-Trent, to Macclesfield and Stockport, thence to 6 miles SE of Manchester. 

 
 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) - S0005332
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - S0005332
         

     (3) - site and exterior views (2 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0005332

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Staffordshire SMR (ref: 05032)
        
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2000/08/24 

            Field Visit, During 1996 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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