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Type 26 pillbox, facing S defending beach. Now bricked up and rendered; is a good example of roof camouflage.
(Source: Book 1996)
Non-standard square pillbox. All embrasures blocked up. No access. Site being developed. with PLAN drawn on form.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/11/11)
Type 26 pillbox, positioned to defend the beaches and approaches to Lancing. Faces S. It has now been bricked up and rendered.
(Source: SMR 1997)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/26)
      

      

        Location
        South Lancing: on seafront 50 yards S of A259, the Brighton road.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Lancing, Sussex, West, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 1787 0351
             (Scale: 1:50000
              , 1995)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Bad

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Development (Immediate) 
Detail: Area around pillbox being developed. Pillbox may have been destroyed [1997].

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Sussex coast defences - Defences of the East and West Sussex coastlines, and their immediate hinterland. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/26) - S0007624
         

     (1) - exterior view (DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0007624

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            West Sussex SMR (ref: 6513)
        
      

      

        Reference
        
             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

             1996 Frontline Sussex: The Defence Lines of West Sussex 1939-1945.

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1997/11/11 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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