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Type 26 pillbox situated on the E side of the road from Bromborough to Port Sunlight and the Lever Brothers soap factory.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/07/16)
Square concrete-faced pillbox, well hidden amongst trees.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/11)
Square pillbox, concrete-faced, with four embrasures. Entrance at one corner. Now covered with spray-can graffiti.
(Source: Field Visit 2001)
Square pillbox (a variation on the standard type 26) with chamfered corners and an attached entrance porch. The pillbox is heavily covered with spray can graffiti, and the embrasure on the W face has been badly damaged. Concrete-faced inside and outside. Faces S towards road. Interior access possible although the doorway has been blocked for a quarter of its height from the ground.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/05/19)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        Inside former Lever Works, at top of embankment of disused mineral line sidings above public footpath and cycleway,  off Bromborough Road.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Bebington, Wirral, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SJ 3396 8334
             (Scale: 1:10000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Bad

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Vandalism (Medium Term) 
Detail: The pillbox is extensively graffiti-sprayed.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Townley (2 Military Intelligence Company)
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (16) - site location map and sheet with photos attached: plan, elevations, and sheets with attached photographs (Taylor W13).

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0007254
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0007254
         

     (21) - external and interior views.  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Possible spigot mortar emplacement [UORN 12445].

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0007254

      

      

        Reference
        
             1995/06 Defensive Installations on Wirral

             1995/07 Exercise Welsh Barrier

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1995/07/16 

            Field Visit, On 1995/07/16 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2003/05/19 

            Field Visit, During 2001 

            Field Visit, During 1999/11 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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