{"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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found these some years ago at Bradwell Bay Airfield (Fighter Bomber Station WW2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Has anyone got any idea of what they are (perhaps not even military).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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":["post-5323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-essex","tag-bradwell","czr-hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"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). 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