DOVER
| This Type 23 pillbox lies just to the east of the WWII 6 inch gun emplacements of St. Martin's Battery, on the Western Heights, Dover. The structure, which faces east, had board shuttering. |
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In the rear open part of the structure, this steel post, upon which a Light Machine Gun would have been mounted for use against low flying enemy aircraft, survives in good condition. |
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The rear of the structure. The top of the LMG mounting post can just be seen above the rear wall. |
| The port of Dover in 2005 with the peaceful waters of the English Channel beyond. A far different scene from that of Dover in the dark days of 1940 when German bombers were attacking our merchant ships out in the channel. |