Grand Union Canal pillbox, Uxbridge
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Grand Union Canal pillbox, Uxbridge
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 19 Apr 2019
The concrete pillbox nestles below the bridge of St John's Road on the east side of the canal which it appears to have guarded. New apartments at Waterloo Wharf can be seen behind the barge. Another pillbox is known just south Image In 2016, the remains of a World War 2 pillbox were unearthed close to the Grand Union Canal in Cowley, in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The fortifications along this part of the Grand Union Canal formed a section of the 'Outer London Defence Ring'. Fabricated in reinforced concrete, the pillboxes included embrasures from which soldiers (usually of the Home Guard), armed with rifles or light machine guns, could fire on advancing enemy troops.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.543171
Longitude
-0.488142