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Type 24 pillbox, situated on W side of road covering S access to bridge which crosses Bromborough Pool.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/07/16)
Type 24 pillbox at S end of bridge over a Mersey inlet.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/05/10)
Pillbox plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1945/08/10)
Hexagonal pillbox plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet. Faces E.
(Source: Map 1956)
Pillbox. Cassini ref. 807055. Completed, with camouflage by 30.8.40. Guarding roadblock. One of two at this location [see UORN 6150].
(Source: Document 1940/08/30)
Variant on a type 24 pillbox, built for its site at the SW end of the bridge. It faces E across the bridge rather than S, the direction of its companion on the other side of the road [UORN 6150]. The doorway is on the W side. Interior access is possible. Three embrasures are blocked; the rest are open. The embrasure to the right of the entrance is a splayed rifle port, that to the left a larger stepped one for LMG fire. The concrete facing is heavily matrixed with stone and shows evidence of having been shuttered with vertical wooden planking.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/05/19)
| Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) |
|---|---|
| Location | On SW side of Bromborough Pool Bridge on New Chester Road (A41) at Port Sunlight. |
| Area |
Bebington, Wirral, England |
| Grid reference |
SJ 34285 84150
(Scale: 1:2500
)
|
| Period | WW2 |
| Condition | Good |
| Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
| Recorder | Lowry, Bernard (Defence of Britain Project) |
| Attached Sheets | Also recorded as part of Exercise Welsh Barrier (see report by 2 MI Coy) |
| Photographs |
(1) - general view of pillboxes at S end of bridge |
| DOB site reference: | S0007371 |
| Reference |
1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences 1995/06 Defensive Installations on Wirral 1995/07 Exercise Welsh Barrier 1940/08/30 Works Report 1945/08/10 106G/UK/626 (fr.4128) |
| Event |
Field Visit, On 1995/07/16 Field Visit, On 1995/07/16 Construction, In the period 1940/08/30 Field Visit, On 1999/05/10 Field Visit, During 1999/10 Field Visit, On 2003/05/19 |
