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This Type 24 is situated in a recreation field at Red Road, Berrow, Burnham-on-Sea.  The box has a small, concrete topped, brick structure on the roof (for ventilation?)  The loopholes have steel shutters and there are semicircular metal inserts set into each wall and around the edges of the roof, maybe for securing camouflage.  The box faces north.

[Map ref. ST 2985 5244]

  

One of the steel loophole shutters.

  

Looking through the front loophole we can see that the blast wall is of brick instead of the usual concrete.  There is a square shaped opening above this which appears to lead up into the structure on the roof.

  

The entrance.

                                                                                 

 

 

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