An aerial photograph taken in April 1946 shows a huge band of anti-tank pimples and sockets across the junction of Maldon Road and Station Road sealing off the approach into Tiptree from the SW. The barrier is anchored at its N end to “Rawalpindi” (now No.112 Maldon Road) with a five-row pimple barrier stretching S across the corner of a field (now the front garden of No.114) to the carriageway. It continued via anti-tank sockets to the grass triangle at the junction of the two roads. Here, it once again reverted to pimples before changing again to sockets across Station Road. On the S side of Station Road, continuing the straight line of the band, pimples again traced a path (largely invisible on the aerial photograph), this time to the southern anchorage point at Birkin House (still extant). TL 8904 1562 - TL 8903 1558.<1>

The image on the 1946 aerial photograph is supported by contemporary records which state, “21 concrete pimples. Front garden of ‘Rawalpindi’, Maldon Road”, “9 concrete pimples. Market garden to W. of and adjoining Maldon Road” and “28 concrete pimples. Front garden of ‘Birkin House’, Maldon Road”.<2>

A ground-level photograph in a book on Tiptree in Tiptree Public Library shows the junction in, reportedly, 1945. This is very clear and shows, close up, six pimples at the roadside outside ‘Rawalpindi’ plus four on the grass triangle. At least four rows of anti-tank sockets cross the junction.<3>

In 2006, the angle of approach of Station Road has changed; the sharp fork has become a right-angle and the previous grass triangle has become part of the grass verge to the W of Station Road. Nothing of the pimples or sockets now survive.<4>

See also <5> & <6>.