| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), Hawkins Road, Hythe, Colchester |
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| SMR Number: | 10887 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TM 015 247 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM02SW |
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| Parish: | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
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Summary
Pillbox
Full description
Contemporary records state, "Pillbox. O.S. No. 986, Allotments, Hawkins Road – nr Hythe Station. Map ref. 464429" (Mil. Ed.). <1>
A low-level aerial photograph taken by the RAF in 1948 shows this pillbox standing on the E side of Hawkins Road just inside allotments. It was hexagonal, with its entrance on the W side, facing across the allotments to the railway line some 90 yards away. <2>
The area is now a car storage compound.
<1> unknown, 1968, War Time Contraventions 1968, Colchester (LIST). SEX31436.
<2> RAF, 1948, 58-69-5206 (AP). SEX61743.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | LIST: unknown. 1968. War Time Contraventions 1968. Colchester. |
| <2> | AP: RAF. 1948. 58-69-5206. |
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