What do you think this is.

Feek · 27 Apr 2019 at 19:54

I walk past one every day and would love to have a proper look inside but I have no idea if that’s possible or not. It’s probably ‘unsafe’.

Street · 27 Apr 2019 at 20:02

Mike9000 said:
As above a pillbox. I lived on the Wirral as a kid and the place is littered with them.

https://www.geograph.org.uk/related.php?id=5869812&method=quick

Were they to stop people leaving the Wirral?

Mike9000 · 29 Apr 2019 at 12:58

Street said:
Were they to stop people leaving the Wirral?

Wouldn’t surprise me!

Participant · 29 Apr 2019 at 13:02

jas72 said:
It doesn't seem to be guarding anything much

Funny that.

Brizzles · 29 Apr 2019 at 13:23

JBuk said:
See that tiny dilapidated concrete building in the over grown weeds, full of rats and smelly

that’s your house that is!

A History Today reference ?

Scam · 29 Apr 2019 at 15:05

Russinating said:
This isn't meant harshly, but I'm quite shocked you live in Flanders but don't know a pill box when you see one.

I'd highly recommend visiting some cemeteries, conservation sites and museums in the area and Ypres etc, which I presume you haven't much!

This!

Jean-F · 30 Apr 2019 at 08:42

According to my WW1 buff son, a German resident for almost 30 years, it’s a pillbox, and could be in Essex, Kent, or Sussex, as well as anywhere in Belgium or France, and could be from WW1 or WW2.
So I guess that the overwhelming consensus is right, it’s a pillbox.

Participant · 30 Apr 2019 at 19:13

Jean-F said:
According to my WW1 buff son, a German resident for almost 30 years, it’s a pillbox, and could be in Essex, Kent, or Sussex, as well as anywhere in Belgium or France, and could be from WW1 or WW2.
So I guess that the overwhelming consensus is right, it’s a pillbox.

Thank goodness your buff son was here to confirm that.

Edrof · 30 Apr 2019 at 19:37

An interesting part of your history.

413x · 30 Apr 2019 at 19:54

It looks like an overgrown letter box of a ground troll.
You know what to do!

Feek · 30 Apr 2019 at 19:58

Here's the one nearest to me that I walk past every day.

jas72 · 15 May 2019 at 19:57

Russinating said:
This isn't meant harshly, but I'm quite shocked you live in Flanders but don't know a pill box when you see one.

I'd highly recommend visiting some cemeteries, conservation sites and museums in the area and Ypres etc, which I presume you haven't much!

Never really been interested in WWII much apart from gaming about 20 years ago and some BoB stuff.

I'll get round to it eventually...

ThriceNightly · 15 May 2019 at 21:16

I often paddle past this interesting one on my local canal (photo from last summer)
Read something about it being the only pilbox on a lock in the uk?

cheesyboy · 16 May 2019 at 10:10

Pic from a couple of years ago, but you can go in this one (if you look closely, you can see my son in there)

B@Th*nG · 16 May 2019 at 10:16

Feek said:
I walk past one every day and would love to have a proper look inside but I have no idea if that’s possible or not. It’s probably ‘unsafe’.

i've been in a few, they're just a concrete hole. these days they're largely filled with rubbish that people have dumped. You aren't missing anything.

B@

Sankari · 16 May 2019 at 11:21

It's the pig trough Nigel Farage feeds from.