Holbeach
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Holbeach is a market town and civil parish in the South Holland District in Lincolnshire, England. The town lies 8 miles (13 km) from Spalding; 17 miles (27 km) from Boston; 20 miles (32 km) from King's Lynn; 23 miles (37 km) from Peterborough; and 43 miles (69 km) by road from Lincoln. It is on the junction of the A151 and A17.
Skyline of Holbeach
All Saints Church, Holbeach
Holbeach's colourful town sign
Mansion House, the birthplace of Norman Angell
British hardened field defences of World War II were small fortified structures constructed as a part of British anti-invasion preparations. They were popularly known as pillboxes, a reference to their shape.
Hexagonal pillbox (Type 22)
Winston Churchill helps to build a pillbox at Poole in July 1940.
Soldiers relax inside a Type 28 pillbox in October 1940.
Pillbox where some of the original brick shuttering and reinforced concrete has fallen away to reveal the internal network of rebars.