EAW019738 ENGLAND (1948). SS Himalaya moored in Buccleuch Dock, Cavendish Park Playing Fields and environs, Barrow Island, 1948. This image has been produced from a print.

PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24): S0016491

PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24): S0016487

PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24): S0016494

PILLBOX (VARIANT): S0016618

PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24): e46661

2 x 2ndWW Stanton type air raid shelters?

Approx location of a 2ndWW barrage balloon operating site.

2ndWW pillbox.

2ndWW pillbox.

2ndWW pillbox.

2ndWW pillbox.

2ndWW pillbox.

2ndWW pillbox.

2ndWW pillbox.

2ndWW pillbox.

Approx location of a 2ndWW HAA Gun Battery at Ramsden, designation H 3/-.

2ndWW pillbox.

2ndWW pillbox.

2ndWW pillbox.

2ndWW pillbox.

Approx location of a 2ndWW barrage balloon operating site. The two Nissen huts located to the left of this marker are possibly also associated with this site.

2ndWW pillbox.

2ndWW pillbox.

Approx location of a 2ndWW barrage balloon operating site.

2ndWW pillbox, type FW3/24.

2ndWW pillbox.

2ndWW pillbox, type FW3/24.

2ndWW concrete holdfast, possibly for a searchlight?

Is the Greek Liner called Matrona, formerly the WW2 Hospital Ship, called Aba? The Matrona capsized at the Bidston Dock in Birkenhead while being refitted, following war service. At the bow of this ship are darker plates than those along the side of the ship. The dark plates make a similar pattern to the bow plates on the attached photo which has the old inscription ‘SS Matrona at Bidston Dock Birkenhead 1948’. The refit did not proceed and the Matrona was sold to T.W.Ward Ltd for breaking at Barrow in Furness. The Matrona arrived in Barrow on the 04/10/1948. The general features of the ship, in the aerial view, are difficult to see but do seem to correspond well to the old Hospital Ship built in Glasgow and operated by the Elder Dempster Lines Ltd. What do you think?

WWII Type 23 Pillbox S0016618

WWII Type 24 Pillbox e45855

Cavendish Park Power Station,providing electric power for the Vickers Armstrong Shipyard and Engineering works (at the time of this photo).Demolished in the 1960's.