{"id":5323,"date":"2015-03-08T16:48:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T16:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2025-10-06T17:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:25:32","slug":"bradwell-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/bradwell-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradwell Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Are These?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I found these some years ago at Bradwell Bay Airfield (Fighter Bomber Station WW2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Has anyone got any idea of what they are (perhaps not even military).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have had ideas that they were perhaps some kind of hold-fast for a Light AA Gun they have what looks like a compressed air pipe leading from the outside to the middle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"7c716b\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #7c716b;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"563\" height=\"375\" data-id=\"13614\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bradwellbay4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13614 not-transparent\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bradwellbay4.jpg 563w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bradwellbay4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"989391\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #989391;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"563\" height=\"375\" data-id=\"13612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bradwellbay3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13612 not-transparent\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bradwellbay3.jpg 563w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bradwellbay3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"938f91\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #938f91;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"563\" height=\"375\" data-id=\"13611\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bradwellbay2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13611 not-transparent\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bradwellbay2.jpg 563w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bradwellbay2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"a09a9a\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #a09a9a;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"563\" height=\"375\" data-id=\"13613\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bradwellbay1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13613 not-transparent\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bradwellbay1.jpg 563w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bradwellbay1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Chris Stewart-Moffitt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Are These? I found these some years ago at Bradwell Bay Airfield (Fighter Bomber Station WW2). Has anyone got any idea of what they are (perhaps not even military). I have had ideas that they were perhaps some kind of hold-fast for a Light AA Gun they have what looks like a compressed air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[128],"class_list":{"0":"post-5323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-essex","8":"tag-bradwell","9":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}