Monument record 0769600000 - 28 Crabbe Crescent, Chesham

A concrete anti-tank buoy in the front garden of a house in Chesham reported to the Imperial War Museum and to the CBA. The buoy served the same function as anti-tank cylinders: a portable obstacle that could be rolled out onto a road surface in a roadblock. A number would have been kept at the side of the road until needed, then rolled out and a steel angle iron post inserted into the central hole to allow them to be tied together with barbed wire, to form an entanglement. The buoy is clearly no longer in-situ as Crabbe Crescent was farmland during WWII. The nearest likely source of the roadblock is the A416 Chesham to Berkhamstead road (about 300m N), the B4505 Chesham to Hemel Hempstead road (about 500m SE), or possibly Bovingdon airfield (about 3km NE). Further information on anti-tank buoys (B1).