| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), E of The Philip Morant School, Colchester |
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| SMR Number: | 20521 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TL 978 242 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL92SE |
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| Parish: | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
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Summary
hexagonal, probably Type FW3/22 pillbox
Full description
Contemporary records state, "O.S. No. 1272 - Pillbox and apron wire. Magazine Fruit Farm, Park Road. Map ref. 422429" (Mil. Ed.) <1>
Clearly seen on an aerial photograph taken in May 1946, the pillbox stood by a track on the S boundary of a field, OS No. 1272. It was hexagonal, probably Type FW3/22, with its entrance on the NE face. This may have been the southernmost of the line of pillboxes which stretched from the main defence line at Shrub End to Sheepend Farm Estate at Lexden. <2>
The site of this pillbox is now the south boundary of a playing field to the east of The Philip Morant School.
<1> unknown, 1968, War Time Contraventions 1968, Colchester (LIST). SEX31436.
<2> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1492-3281, May 1946 (AP). SEX64109.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)? (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Events
- Colchester - Lexden to Mersea Road by Fred Nash (Ref: Nash COL Apr-Aug 2001)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | LIST: unknown. 1968. War Time Contraventions 1968. Colchester. |
| <2> | AP: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1492-3281. May 1946. |
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