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redjed1
03-03-2009, 09:04 AM
I've driven past it many times over the years and often wondered why it was put there. Anyone know why? Wasn't Garston on our side in the war :rolleyes:

Are there many more of them in the area?
kevin
03-03-2009, 09:55 AM
I've driven past it many times over the years and often wondered why it was put there. Anyone know why? Wasn't Garston on our side in the war :rolleyes:

Are there many more of them in the area?

Don't know why it was there but often played on it as a kid. There were a few dotted around the area. I remember one on Heath Road, between the railway bridge and the start of Brodie Avenue. It was set into a slope and the back had a long drop behind it. We used to dangle a rope over and then climb down. Slipped once and took a load of skin off my hands through rope burns. I think that particular one is long gone.
Ged
03-03-2009, 10:31 AM
Hello redjed1 and Kevin.

See here:

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4940&highlight=pillboxes



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kevin
03-03-2009, 10:44 AM
Hello redjed1 and Kevin.

See here:

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4940&highlight=pillboxes



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Thanks Ged - that entire thread had slipped past me.
redjed1
03-03-2009, 06:13 PM
Thanks for the link Ged. One of the replies said it was part of a perimeter defence ring. Still think Garston had something to do with it :rolleyes:
Samp
03-03-2009, 07:24 PM
There is one of these pillboxes as you drive down the Formby bypass just pass the Ince Blundel Hotel, near the site of the microlight base.

Also, for the history buffs; in the fifties there was a murder on the Wirrel, when a womans body was found in a pill box, it caursed quite a sensation and was in the news for quite some time 'The Pill Box Murder' was the headlines.
georgeb
03-09-2009, 08:33 PM
Put there 1940 at height of feared German Invasion. To protect main road Junction leading to and from Speke Airport/Factories/Garston Docks etc.
martinj2
05-15-2009, 12:23 PM
The railway embankment between HuntsX and South Parkway has recently been cleared of undergrowth and trees.
This has uncovered 3 concrete 'Dragons Teeth' about half a mile out from Huntsx (liverpool bound side).
Anyone else noticed them?