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Thesaurus Term/Concept: PICKETT HAMILTON FORT

Identifier 123500
Class DEFENCE OF BRITAIN
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A sunken, circular, concrete pillbox used on airfields. They remained flush with the surface to permit the free movement of aircraft, but if attack threatened, could be raised, hydraulically or by a counterbalance, and manned to give covering fire.

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Context Record
Monument Type MEX1036074 Pickett-Hamilton Fort (destroyed), Rochford Airfield (Monument)
Monument Type MEX31588 Pickett-Hamilton Fort at North Weald Airfield (Monument)
Monument Type MEX31590 Pickett-Hamilton Fort at North Weald Airfield (Monument)
Monument Type MEX31592 Pickett-Hamilton Fort at North Weald Airfield (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1036061 Pickett-Hamilton Fort, Rochford Airfield (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1053751 Second World War Pickett Hamilton Fort at North Weald Airfield (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1053886 Second World War Pickett Hamilton Fort at RAF Stapleford Tawney Airfield (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1053895 Second World War Pickett Hamilton Fort at RAF Stapleford Tawney Airfield (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1036067 Second World War Pickett-Hamilton Fort, Rochford Airfield (now London Southend Airport) (Monument)