Great bit of history, I used to have a look through the Grey st one when I was young, and could fit thru. a hole, and nowadays I can still see a smidgen of the one at Waikanae next to the walkway. Good to see the old Home Guard, I reakon their may have been a few character's like in the tv program Dad's Army.
I know of 3 pills. Well.. 1 might be under water now. Wairoa. Used to play in those as a kid. This other one, we 2 kids, ran across a field to get to it. I swear, the family that owned the land would had been laughing. Also, timber/wood and sticks were left there so we could fashion time weapons. And then... We sitting in this pill box on a hill. With stick guns. Bro gets up. "Fk let's go home."
Awesome research and dedication girl. Chur👊👍
Thankyou so much this was a very well done peice of history you did a first class job
my father inlaw was in the home guard in wairoa and we have several pill box’s in wairoa along our local beach
Great bit of history, I used to have a look through the Grey st one when I was young, and could fit thru. a hole, and nowadays I can still see a smidgen of the one at Waikanae next to the walkway. Good to see the old Home Guard, I reakon their may have been a few character's like in the tv program Dad's Army.
Thank you for the vlog. I lived there as a child and used to play in and around them. I`m glad most of them are still there.
Great video.awsome content.there must be hundreds of these things dotted around NZ.part of our heritage.thanks
Wow, lived here off and on for 20+ years and I never knew about the Peel St one - great video!
I didn't know about the peel st one either. Gonna go have a nosy. What about the one atop Kaiti hill? It looks like a military type construction
Im sure there was one of these pillboxes on Hospital hill, in the Turanga-nui Gardens
I know of 3 pills. Well.. 1 might be under water now. Wairoa. Used to play in those as a kid. This other one, we 2 kids, ran across a field to get to it. I swear, the family that owned the land would had been laughing. Also, timber/wood and sticks were left there so we could fashion time weapons. And then...
We sitting in this pill box on a hill. With stick guns. Bro gets up.
"Fk let's go home."
Good old history