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Essex HER

Name:Pillbox (destroyed), St Andrew's Ave, Colchester
SMR Number:10898
Type of record:Monument
Grid Reference:TM 009 255
Map Sheet:TM02NW
Parish:COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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, Second World War - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Sources and further reading

<1>AP: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1492-4197.