RAF Oakington , pillbox uncovered.

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By: Gingie - 18th February 2011 at 10:48

Also Grafton Underwood has a few.

This is the one that was discovered last year:

And one of the slightly different ones on the airfield side with a shelter attached:

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By: hindenburg - 20th January 2011 at 19:07

Rare?? There are some of these at Kings Cliffe

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By: roadracer - 20th January 2011 at 18:57

Thanks Resmoroh, With my broadband i would probably be here for a month without the warning ! Fascinating stuff !

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By: Resmoroh - 20th January 2011 at 16:24

Roadracer,
The cantilever pill-boxes are fairly rare, but there are quite a few around Oakington Airfield. If you put the DOBDA (Defence Of Britain Database and Archive) overlay on to GE you can see precisely where they were/are. Also all the other defence works of early WW2. (NB Don’t leave the overlay on GE. It’s massive and takes half a day to load!!!!!).
HTH
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By: oscar duck - 20th January 2011 at 12:38

great stuff.

Now don’t get any ideas about sending these minor offenders by sailing ship the the old colonies.

The ***** /Afghanis and other such types have beaten you to us this time…

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By: David Thompson - 20th January 2011 at 00:29

Looks like a ‘mushroom’ type ? See here for more details ;
http://www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk/mushroompage.htm