{"id":5326,"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=78"},"modified":"2025-10-06T19:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:21:35","slug":"raf-hornchurch-tett-turrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/raf-hornchurch-tett-turrets\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF Hornchurch Tett Turrets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The former airfield at RAF Hornchurch in Essex boasts the largest concentration of surviving Tett turrets in the country. This ultra rare form of one-man pillbox would have been extremely cramped and restrictive for the guy inside! Thankfully the surviving\u00a0Tett\u00a0turrets at Hornchurch are in relatively good condition; the outer rims and gun embrasures are still intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the Tett turrets was excavated by the BBC Two Men in a Trench team, whose efforts exposed the original crawl-way. A pair of WW2 goggles were found inside. As you can see from my photographs it has been hollowed out inside and now rests on bricks. The concrete pipe of a second Tett turret nearby is completely full of earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former airfield is accessible to everybody and has other surviving relics, namely four good-condition pillboxes, an anti-aircraft pit, aircraft dispersal bay and compass setting point, two in-tact E-Pens, air raid shelters and what may be some anti-glider cylinders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Julieanne Savage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The former airfield at RAF Hornchurch in Essex boasts the largest concentration of surviving Tett turrets in the country. This ultra rare form of one-man pillbox would have been extremely cramped and restrictive for the guy inside! Thankfully the surviving\u00a0Tett\u00a0turrets at Hornchurch are in relatively good condition; the outer rims and gun embrasures are still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[132,133],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-essex","tag-hornchurch","tag-tett","czr-hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t