The Pillbox

If you have a hankering for urine-​soaked machine gun nests that never saw action and now sit like weird skulls in the middle of nowhere for no reason, look no further than Springwood Avenue.
Built in 1940 to protect the crossroads from a Nazi invasion that never was, the pillbox has little left to do now but rot slowly into the elements that surround it, and accumulate rubbish like it’s going out of style. If any documentary on World War II is to be believed, then ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING the Allies did counted for something in the grand scheme of things. Nothing pointless ever happened in the War. If that’s true, then that makes this hollowed-​out chunk of concrete on a par with Churchill’s bunker. Take your autograph book.