More information : TA 2084 4828. `Eared' pillbox.
(for full description see TA 15 SE 35)
This re-inforced concrete pillbox, of the `eared' type is situated on
the promenade in Hornsea. It was intended to provide fire down onto the beach in the event of an invasion. The site was plotted from aerial photographs dated 1945 by the Fortress Studies Group. The Fortress Studies Group also visited the site in 1992 during the Holderness Survey, they found the site to be completely destroyed. (1-1a)
The monument is also visible as an upstanding structure on air photographs examined as part of the Rapid Coastal Assessment Survey of the Yorkshire and Humber Estuary. Due to coastal erosion the monument no longer survives in situ. (1a)
Re-inforced concrete pillbox, of the `eared¿ type situated on the promenade in Hornsea. It was intended to provide fire down onto the beach in the event of an invasion. Destroyed by 1992. (2) |