| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), Gordon Works, Colchester |
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| SMR Number: | 10907 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TM 001 262 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM02NW |
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| Parish: | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
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Summary
Pillbox (destroyed), Gordon Works, Colchester
Full description
Contemporary records state, "Pillbox. Gordon Works. Cowdray Avenue, Colchester". This pillbox can be seen on an aerial photograph taken by the RAF in 1946 on a field boundary a few yards to the NW of the original Gordon Works. <1> <2> <3> It was a hexagonal pillbox with its entrance on the S side.
The entire area has now been built over.
<1> unknown, 1968, War Time Contraventions 1968 (LIST). SEX31436.
<2> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1492-4273-6 (AP). SEX61784.
<3> Ordnance Survey, 1945-present, 1:2500, TM0026, 1953 (Map). SEX60991.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (WWII, Second World War - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | LIST: unknown. 1968. War Time Contraventions 1968. |
| <2> | AP: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1492-4273-6. |
| <3> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1945-present. 1:2500. 1:2500. TM0026, 1953. |
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