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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 77 SE 133
Type of record:Monument
Name:Pillbox, Lower Upnor, Frindsbury Extra

Summary

A type 24 Pillbox remains in good condition set in the modern concrete promenade by the road on the foreshore at Lower Upnor. It was built in 1940 to provide flanking fire along the beach and to protect the road from the beach.

Summary from record TQ 77 SE 1306:

Fair condition type 24 infantry pillbox. . Facing South.

Grid Reference:TQ 7623 7123
Map Sheet:TQ77SE
Parish:FRINDSBURY EXTRA, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • PILLBOX (Modern - 1940 AD? to 1945 AD?)
  • PILLBOX (PILLBOX, Modern - 1940 AD to 1945 AD)

Full description

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Type 24. to provide flanking fire along the beaches and to protect road from beach. Excellent condition. A good candidate for statutory protection as a conveniently visible example of a pillbox from the GHQ line. Foreshore, Lower Upnor, opposite Arethusa Centre. (1). Site photographs (2-8). Seen in 2004, the pillbox is set in the modern concrete promenade by the road. Structurally intact. (9)

Description from record TQ 77 SE 1306:
Infantry pillbox, all concrete construction with brick shuttering. Door and embrassures sealed.
Owner : Public
Publicly accessible : Yes
How accessed for survey : Public ground on the Saxon Shoreway.
Tourism Potential : Yes, as part of Hoo Stop Line heritage trail.
Condition : very good
Date of visit : 07/07/15


MMRG, 07/07/07, Type 24 pill box (Photograph). SKE14531.

MMRG, 07/07/07, Type 24 pill box (Photograph). Ske14531.

11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 18/01/41, War diary. (Collection). SKE14479.

11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 18/01/41, War diary. (Collection). Ske14479.

<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.

<2> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9510.

<3> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9756.

<4> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9758.

<5> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9841.

<6> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9870.

<7> 1944, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10024.

<8> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10373.

<9> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year One report (Unpublished document). SWX12121.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Collection: 11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment. 18/01/41. War diary..
---Photograph: MMRG. 07/07/07. Type 24 pill box.
<1>Index: Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy. Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites.
<2>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 3119. print.
<3>Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 5199. print.
<4>Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 5217. print.
<5>Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 3084. print.
<6>Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 4100. print.
<7>Photograph (Print): 1944. Photograph. 3059. print.
<8>Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 60. print.
<9>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year One report.

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