More information : This was the second of two pillboxes built in the Cove in WW2. Bricks were first carried down to the site 12 at a time. Later the visiting Welsh regiment formed a line down the steps and passed materials hand to hand. Cement was similarly transported to the site. [Informant: Mr. Noble, a local man].
[Recorder Perry originally gave NGR - SY 69707101 for this pillbox].
Recorder's photograph 529/15 of 7.4.97 not attached.
Informants, George Davey and Gordon ('Boy') Male, local men.
Pillbox had a concrete base, multi-sided, corrugated iron sheeting used vertically as shuttering for concrete walls. Built on a rise close to the water's edge; awash at the highest tides. At Church Ope Cove, on 'Boys Rock' side (N side) at beach level at the back of the beach near the cliff. (1) |