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Existing toll house/watchman's hut by former railway line. Building modified by insertion of new inner skin of brick, concrete fill, alteration of existing widows to loopholes. Loopholes camouflaged with black/white paint to look like windows. Coalport Bridge built 1818.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/01/07)


      

        Type of site
        DEFENDED BUILDING
      

      

        Location
        On bank of River Severn facing Coalport Bridge and to the E of the old railway station, by the side of what was the track.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Broseley, Wrekin, The, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SJ 702 020
             (Scale: 1:50000
              , 1981)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Clay Tile, 
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Deterioration (Medium Term) 
Detail: General decay.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Lowry, Bernard (Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Western Command Stop Line No 1  - Line of River Severn from Tewkesbury via Worcester and Bridgnorth to Shrewsbury, and then on to Llandrinio. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of DEFENDED BUILDING - S0005959
View of DEFENDED BUILDING - S0005959
         

     (2) - 1 interior, 1 exterior views (DIGITISED - Clarke).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0005959

      

      

        Reference
        
             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1996/07/01 

            Field Visit, During 2000 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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