| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), St Andrew's Ave, Colchester |
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| SMR Number: | 10898 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TM 009 255 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM02NW |
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| Parish: | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
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Summary
An hexagonal pillbox, with an anti-tank ditch some yards away around its S side.
Full description
An aerial photograph taken by the RAF in 1946 shows the clear shape of an hexagonal pillbox, with an anti-tank ditch some yards away around its S side, on the S side of St. Andrew's Avenue. The entrance is on the SW face. <1>
This site now straddles the wall of a Sainsburys Homebase and the grass verge outside.
<1> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1492-4197 (AP). SEX61751.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | AP: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1492-4197. |
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