#ww2 #pillboxes #birds

Aberdeenshire WW2 defences turned into seabird nesting sites - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7z1x1gd13o

Aberdeenshire WW2 defences turned into seabird nesting sites

Common terns are to be encouraged to nest on the roofs of four pillboxes.

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Shell proof Eastern Command type pillbox for a Bren gun, River Chelmer, GHQ Line East, Little Waltham. #ww2 #worldwar2 #pillboxes
I wonder how effective the camouflage for this pillbox (part of Britain’s WW2 anti-invasion defences) would actually have been! #ww2 #history #pillboxes #bunkers
One of the 10.5cm gun emplacements and a 7.5cm/MG bunker with a 60cm searchlight emplacement above, strongpoint Turkenburg, the Atlantic Wall, Alderney. #ww2 #pillboxes #bunkers #history
Thames Path day three - Wallingford to Pangbourne. #walking #nationaltrail #ThamesPath #mud #lewiscarroll #pillboxes