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00:05 looks big on the outside. It's six foot by six foot inside.
00:14 So these walls are about a meter thick or an old language over three foot thick
00:18 of reinforced concrete. So you imagine I've calculated roughly,
00:22 it weighs about 98 tons. So you can imagine what,
00:26 what a construction job that was. It's known,
00:30 I think since about the eighties or nineties,
00:32 it's known to be one of only two pill boxes left as part of what's called the
00:36 coastal crust remaining in West Sussex.
00:40 The other one being at Lansing, which is nowhere near.
00:43 And it's good condition with this one.
00:44 This is probably one of the best in the country,
00:47 let alone on the South coast in terms of its preservation on that.
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00:57 and we know that a platform and the pill box were there in January, 1941.
01:11 So any, we'd also known as caps over caps or over slab in 1983.
01:17 So we know that originally that actually worked the platforms there.
01:21 Why the platform was there. We don't know. And it wasn't there.
01:24 We don't think it was there before then.
01:25 We think it was part of that build for some strange reason.
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