Category: Pillboxes

Shoreham Airport

Post author By Ant
Post date 11/04/2025

I’ve been out in the fantastic light which this wonderful spring weather has bought photographing 1940s pillboxes for my Loopholes project.

The below is one of a pair of infantry pillboxes that were built to protect an anti-tack emplacement which covered Shoreham’s Old Toll Bridge which then carried vehicle traffic over the river Adur.

You can see the walk way that has been built around this pillbox, which makes a statement both on rising water levels and on the importance of this historic structure.

Although never used these structures have stood the test of time and remain in place today 85 years after they were built. Well done to the Royal Engineers of the time!

Art Photo Projects Photography Pillboxes

I’m working on a personal photography project which I’ve named Loopholes which focuses on the 1940 wartime defences that remain intact in Sussex. My recent work is around the banks of the river Adur in Shoreham and the south coast.

Above is the small, low slung machine-gun position on Lancing beach which now is overlooked by the more contemporary beach huts. The shingle has swamped this emplacement but it remains largely intact.

This is one of the infantry pillboxes along the east bank of the river Adur. A fine example of a second world war pillbox that is still in position after 85 years.

Art Photo Projects Photography Pillboxes

Loopholes

Post author By Ant
Post date 20/02/2025

I’m working on a photographic project focusing on 1940s defensive structures in Sussex. I’ve named this project ‘Loopholes’ after the gun embrasures in the pillboxes (bunkers) that still exist 85 years after they were built.

Here are some recent test photos taken in digital in preparation for a medium format film camera shoot. These bunkers are along the banks of the river Adur in Shoreham-by-Sea on the edge of Shoreham airport.