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Pillboxopedia is a jargon-busting tool of terms relating to UK anti-invasion defences of World War Two.
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Generic term for a hardened field defensive structure usually constructed from concrete and/or masonry. Pillboxes were built in numerous types and variants depending on location and role.
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Posted: 20 January 2006 at 20:01
I heard on the radio today of a list of unusual objects found in kilt sporrans on their return to a hire company in Scotland, which included things such as contraceptives, false teeth, cufflinks and a pepper grinder.
This reminded me of an equally strange list of items I found in A.R.P. Equipment Bulletin No.7 of April 1940 filed in HO 186/2114.
The following articles were found in baby helmet gas masks handed in by the public and subsequently returned by local authorities to just one regional respirator store:
- Playing cards
- Sticky sweets
- Wooden pegs
- Drinking glass
- One General Civilian Respirator
- Buttons on wool
- Bus tickets
- Warden's receipt
- Bread
- Post cards
- One pair of fancy waterproof curtains
- Cooked meat, partly eaten
In the words of an unamused Home Office, "comment is needless". The cooked meat must've been off...
- Pete
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