Things looked bleak for Great Britain in 1940. France had fallen and even with the "Miracle of Dunkirk" the British Army didn't really have the hardware to fight the Nazi war machine. All that stood between them and Hitler was the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, but everyone expected an invasion at any time.
And so a whole bunch of pillboxes were built on likely landing beaches. The problem, of course, is that a pillbox looks like, well, a pillbox, and the Luftwaffe would target them as a matter of course.
And so the Brits built a disguised one.
It looked like an old ruined cottage but was newly built from reinforced concrete with gun ports instead of windows. Pretty cool. And what's also cool is that it's Grade II listed as a historic building.
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Those Brits were 'inventive' to put it mildly!
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