| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), Ipswich Road, Colchester |
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| SMR Number: | 10899 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TM 008 256 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM02NW |
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| Parish: | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
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Summary
Pillbox
Full description
Contemporary records state, "Pillbox. L.N.E.R. Allotment No. 6, Ipswich Road, near junction with By-pass. Map ref. 457440" (Mil. Ed.). <1>
This pillbox can be clearly seen on a low-level aerial photograph taken by the RAF in 1948. It stands a few yards N of the roundabout on the W side of Ipswich Road, hexagonal with its entrance on the S side. An aerial photograph taken in 1946, although showing the pillbox indistinctly, shows an anti-tank ditch to have crossed from Colchester By-pass Road to Ipswich Road a few yards N of the pillbox. <2> <3>
The area is now the front of Orchard Gardens.
<1> unknown, 1968, War Time Contraventions 1968, Colchester (LIST). SEX31436.
<2> RAF, 1948, Misc arieal photograph of Colchester (AP). SEX61754.
<3> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1492-4197 (AP). SEX61751.
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. Misc arieal photograph of Colchester. |
| <3> | AP: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1492-4197. |
Related records
| 10900 | Related to: Spigot Mortar Emplacement (destroyed), Ipswich Road, Colchester (Monument) |
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