| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), field OS No. 1312, N of Shrub End Road, Colchester |
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| SMR Number: | 20527 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TL 977 240 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL92SE |
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| Parish: | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
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Summary
Pillbox
Full description
Contemporary records state, "A/T ditch, wiring, 2 pillboxes in O.S. No. 1369, clearing of hedges, pillbox in O.S. No. 1312. O.S. No. 438, 1315, 1369, 1312, 1275, 1319, Rayners Farm, Shrub End." Field No. 1312 lay halfway between Bluebottle Grove and Shrub End Road. At this point, aerial photographs from May 1946 show the anti-tank ditch which ran round south Colchester dog-legged. Just off the SE corner of field no. 1312, immediately E of the dog-leg, something can be made out - probably the rubble from a demolished pillbox. <1> <2>
This area is now completely built over by the houses of Reynolds Avenue.
<1> unknown, 1968, War Time Contraventions 1968, Colchester (LIST). SEX31436.
<2> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1492-3281 (AP). SEX64215.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (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. |
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