GQ, Q & Starfish

Yep, its my favourite old chestnut again.

Now I have trawled the internet trying to find viable sites that map all of these sites and can't find anything half way decent or easily navigable, or that you don't have to join up to (ie spend money) to get the info.

Anyone read of definitive numbers in books of how many pillboxes, Q stations and Starfish sites were constructed for WW2? Or are there are any good books out there?

[Kyt]

Amazon.co.uk: Fields of Deception: Britain's Bombing Decoys of World War II (English Heritage): Books: Colin Dobinson

[the_historian]

I've got that one, it's an absolute goldmine of information.
There are also;
Pillboxes by Henry Wills
Beaches, Fields, Streets and Hills by William Foot
Anti-Aircraft Command by Colin Dobinson
Always Ready; the drill halls of Britain's territorial forces and
Defending Britain- both by Mike Osborne
British Airfield Buildings of the Second World War vols. 1 & 2 by Graham Buchan Innes
Shore establishments of the Royal Navy by Lt cmdr B. Warlow Rn
20th century defences in Britain by Bernard Lowry (available from the CBA as a Practical Handbook in Archaeology
British anti-invasion defences 1940-45 by Austin J. Ruddy
Dangerous Energy by Wayne Cockcroft- a history of the various ROF's.
British Airfield Architecture by Paul Francis.
Action Stations series (10 volumes, I think), covering every airfield in the UK. By David J. Smith.
Most of these books have gazetteers of all the sites in Britain.
If you contact your local County archaeologist, they should have a copy of at least one of the Defence of Britain Project volumes which weren't published but issued to archaeologists free of charge. I have the three volumes covering Scotland, because I worked in local government and the archaeologist was a friend of mine; she told me to copy them and bring them back when I was finished!
Colin Dobinson has a new book in the offing Building Radar, which not only covers the development of British Radar, but also describes the architectural differences between the East and West Coast stations.

oooooooooooh! there goes my student loan if I'm not careful