| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), NW of All Saints Church, Harwich |
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| SMR Number: | 10676 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TM 237 312 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM23SW |
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| Parish: | HARWICH, TENDRING, ESSEX |
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Summary
The anti-tank blocks of the Stanier Line ran along the SW boundary of All Saints churchyard before turning W and then N to a pillbox at this location..
Full description
The anti-tank blocks of the Stanier Line ran along the SW boundary of All Saints churchyard before turning W and then N to a pillbox at this location. Aerial photographs taken in 1946 to 1949 show it to have been an hexagonal pillbox with its entrance on the E side. An anti-tank wall can be seen around its W side together with an anti-tank ditch further to the W. <1> <2> <3>
<1> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1492-4091, May 1946 (AP). SEX42449.
<2> RAF, 1948, CPE-UK 2534-5144 (AP). SEX42444.
<3> RAF, 1949, 540-194-0040 (AP). SEX42452.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | AP: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1492-4091. May 1946. |
| <2> | AP: RAF. 1948. CPE-UK 2534-5144. |
| <3> | AP: RAF. 1949. 540-194-0040. |
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