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Type 22 pillbox. E facing embrasure has 'There'll always be an England, Aug. 1940' inscribed in the cement on the inside. Also faint traces of green paint on parts of outside. Faces E.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/04)
Standard type 22 pillbox. Internal brick shuttering and brick anti-ricochet wall. Internal roof of corrugated iron sheets. Walls 15ins thick. The bricks under the internal embrasures have rounded ends. Written in the concrete inside, while it was still wet, is the inscription, "There'll always be an England, Aug 12 1940". Entrance faces W.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/02/08)
Type 22 pillbox.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/02/14)
Type 22 pillbox, hidden by foliage in the summer almost up to the roof. Unprotected doorway on the W side.
(Source: Field Visit 2001/05/26)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
      

      

        Location
        At E corner of triangular copse between A1088 road and Stowlangtoft village - 500m SW of Stowlangtoft Church.
[with site location map drawn on form].

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Stowlangtoft, Suffolk, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TL 9539 6795
             (Scale: 1:25000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Corrugated Iron, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: The pillbox is overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Silverlock, R.A.
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Eastern Command: River Orwell - River Gt. Ouse Stop Line - Eastern Command line running from mouth of the River Orwell, via Ipswich, the River Gipping, Haughley, Tostock and the Little Ouse to Euston. Then via the Little Ouse to the Great Ouse. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) - S0006200
         

     (3) - exterior and site views (1 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Pillbox (RS.4/17) 250m to W; (RS.4/18) 550m to S.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0006200

      

      

        Reference
        
             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

             1994/06 There'll Always be an England

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1998/02/14 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1996/02/08 

            Field Visit, During 1995/04 

            Field Visit, On 2001/05/26 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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