Oakington pillbox

Oakington pillbox

A reinforced concrete and London brick company brick circular structure and partially subterranean and was designed to be covered with earthworks to prevent detection from the ground and air.  The pillboxes are approximately 18 feet in diameter and have a reinforced concrete, disc-shaped roof supported at its centre by a brick cruciform-shaped, anti-ricochet wall. A curtain wall finishes approximately 1 foot below the outside lip of the roof giving an open observation and firing slit around the entire structure.

Oakington was the base where my final interviews were conducted prior to my demob in 1979 as the pillboxes still survive its fitting I should model one for my layout.

Component parts cut from 3mm millboard; the dome roof was wetted and pressed into the base of an aerosol paint can to form the dome.

Cruciform-shaped anti-ricochet wall and the external wall covered in http://www.modelrailwayscenery.com/ brick paper.

The dome roof in place covered with distressed concrete textured paper.

The final resting place all that is required is banking up the earth works. After 60 plus years time and the weather has battered the pillbox causing the roof to collapse on railway side

I intend to blend it in to the allotments which will behind the houses. Very much still work in progress.