A series of very clear, ground level, colour photographs taken by an American serviceman during World War Two shows scenes around Wormingford airfield, where he was based, and around Colchester and beyond. One of these is a photo of the Siege House, in Colchester, a medieval timbered building standing on the N side of East Street. On the pavement immediately outside is an anti-tank cube and across the width of the visible roadway are anti-tank sockets for accepting upright lengths of railway line. There are clearly elements of a road barrier across East Street at this point.

Nothing of it can be seen on an aerial photograph taken in 1946 and nothing of it now survives.<2>

See also <3> & <4>.