| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), Colne Bank Avenue, Colchester |
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| SMR Number: | 10923 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TL 990 259 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL92NE |
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| Parish: | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
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Summary
Pillbox (destroyed), Colne Bank Avenue, Colchester
Full description
A low-level aerial photograph taken in 1948 shows an hexagonal pillbox, with its entrance on the NW face, on the S side of Colne Bank Avenue. This position is some 30 yards W of the bridge across the river. <1>
This area is now the junction of Colne Bank Avenue and Westway and a large roundabout has absorbed the position of the pillbox.
<1> RAF, 1948, 58-47-5124 (AP). SEX61801.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (WWII, Second World War - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | AP: RAF. 1948. 58-47-5124. |
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