Chris Kolonko-Weet
@ckolonko.bsky.social
Archaeologist specialising in UK's F/SWW Home Front & Invasion Defences. Often mistaken for a palaeontologist, architect, & 'pillbox hunter'. I don't know anything about the Atlantic Wall.
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youtube.com/@remembertheregs
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Chris Kolonko-Weet
Archaeologist and Second World War Defence Specialist
chriskolonko.wordpress.com
Oh yeah, there's also my website. Plenty of stuff on there about archaeology and pillboxes.
chriskolonko.wordpress.com
chriskolonko.wordpress.com
Take the time remember the members of the Home Forces who were killed on active duty in the UK during the Second World War. Despite comprising in the region of 1.8 million soldiers of the Regular and Territorial Army, and Commonwealth and Free Forces, their sacrifice goes largely unacknowledged.
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Take the time remember the members of the Home Forces who were killed on active duty in the UK during the Second World War. Despite comprising in the region of 1.8 million soldiers of the Regular and Territorial Army, and Commonwealth and Free Forces, their sacrifice goes largely unacknowledged.
Check out today's edition of The Telegraph 😉 There may be something about pillboxes in Norfolk in there.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Check out today's edition of The Telegraph 😉 There may be something about pillboxes in Norfolk in there.
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For those around South Oxfordshire this weekend, this should be interesting. @annadillon.bsky.social and I have also made a short video for this... #WW2
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
For those around South Oxfordshire this weekend, this should be interesting. @annadillon.bsky.social and I have also made a short video for this... #WW2
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Brilliant talk 🗣 by @ckolonko.bsky.social at March #Museum last night on pillboxes 🪖
Putting pillboxes into their proper context in the landscape and as part of Regional Defence Plan 🗺
As of 2002 6000 #WW2 #pillboxes remained but only 100 are 'listed' 🤔
A familiar but misunderstood part of #Heritage
Putting pillboxes into their proper context in the landscape and as part of Regional Defence Plan 🗺
As of 2002 6000 #WW2 #pillboxes remained but only 100 are 'listed' 🤔
A familiar but misunderstood part of #Heritage
September 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Brilliant talk 🗣 by @ckolonko.bsky.social at March #Museum last night on pillboxes 🪖
Putting pillboxes into their proper context in the landscape and as part of Regional Defence Plan 🗺
As of 2002 6000 #WW2 #pillboxes remained but only 100 are 'listed' 🤔
A familiar but misunderstood part of #Heritage
Putting pillboxes into their proper context in the landscape and as part of Regional Defence Plan 🗺
As of 2002 6000 #WW2 #pillboxes remained but only 100 are 'listed' 🤔
A familiar but misunderstood part of #Heritage
If you're out in Dereham today, be sure to pop in. We're out with Allied Star Reenactment Group and the Royal British Legion for the town's heritage open day.
September 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
If you're out in Dereham today, be sure to pop in. We're out with Allied Star Reenactment Group and the Royal British Legion for the town's heritage open day.
On Saturday the 13th I'll be at the Dereham memorial garden pillbox, near the station, for the town's Heritage Open Day from 10am to 4pm. I'll be joined by reenactors from the Allied Star Reenactment Group and we'll be doing guided tours of the pillbox.
September 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
On Saturday the 13th I'll be at the Dereham memorial garden pillbox, near the station, for the town's Heritage Open Day from 10am to 4pm. I'll be joined by reenactors from the Allied Star Reenactment Group and we'll be doing guided tours of the pillbox.
Yeah, I don't like jam either.
September 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Yeah, I don't like jam either.
Remember The Regulars Random Ramblings 7
YouTube video by Remember the Regulars
youtu.be
August 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Think I've found an easter egg in HE's chronology guidance...
heritage-standards.org.uk/chronology/
heritage-standards.org.uk/chronology/
August 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Think I've found an easter egg in HE's chronology guidance...
heritage-standards.org.uk/chronology/
heritage-standards.org.uk/chronology/
This is what happened to my Great-Grandad. Would very much like to see this exhibition.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Our boys were forced into the enemy army to save loved ones’: the second world war exhibition dividing Poland
The Museum of Gdańsk’s project about the 450,000 Polish soldiers made to fight for the Third Reich has attracted rightwing protests, but others insist the country needs to reckon with its painful past
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is what happened to my Great-Grandad. Would very much like to see this exhibition.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
New Remember The Regulars YouTube video.
Lets take a look at the molotoff cocktail and how modern mythology hampers our understanding of who used it and how it was used.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdLD...
#History #SecondWorldWar #WW2 Not the #homeguard.
Lets take a look at the molotoff cocktail and how modern mythology hampers our understanding of who used it and how it was used.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdLD...
#History #SecondWorldWar #WW2 Not the #homeguard.
Molotoff Cocktail Madness
YouTube video by Remember the Regulars
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August 16, 2025 at 6:21 AM
New Remember The Regulars YouTube video.
Lets take a look at the molotoff cocktail and how modern mythology hampers our understanding of who used it and how it was used.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdLD...
#History #SecondWorldWar #WW2 Not the #homeguard.
Lets take a look at the molotoff cocktail and how modern mythology hampers our understanding of who used it and how it was used.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdLD...
#History #SecondWorldWar #WW2 Not the #homeguard.
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The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.
August 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.
I've bought some old and cheap acoustic guitars recently to do up. This is a Hondo H117 from 1981. It had barely been played, probably because the action too high. After properly setting up the bridge and putting on my favourite string gauge, it doesn't sound too bad. The singing is another matter..
August 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I've bought some old and cheap acoustic guitars recently to do up. This is a Hondo H117 from 1981. It had barely been played, probably because the action too high. After properly setting up the bridge and putting on my favourite string gauge, it doesn't sound too bad. The singing is another matter..
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ANECDOTE TIME
I was given the role of Adolf at the Duxford Sealion war-game in the late 200s, umpired by the late Paddy Griffith.
Knowing how this would end I overruled my generals and commanded a landing at the Norfolk coast which surprised everyone including Paddy. 🧵
I was given the role of Adolf at the Duxford Sealion war-game in the late 200s, umpired by the late Paddy Griffith.
Knowing how this would end I overruled my generals and commanded a landing at the Norfolk coast which surprised everyone including Paddy. 🧵
This week’s podcast, on the 85 anniversary of Adlertag is my theory on why the Royal Navy would have decimated Seelöwe…
open.spotify.com/episode/4p73...
#history #navalhistory #ww2
open.spotify.com/episode/4p73...
#history #navalhistory #ww2
How the Royal Navy would beat Sealion
Maritime History with Chris Sams (live and unplugged) · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
ANECDOTE TIME
I was given the role of Adolf at the Duxford Sealion war-game in the late 200s, umpired by the late Paddy Griffith.
Knowing how this would end I overruled my generals and commanded a landing at the Norfolk coast which surprised everyone including Paddy. 🧵
I was given the role of Adolf at the Duxford Sealion war-game in the late 200s, umpired by the late Paddy Griffith.
Knowing how this would end I overruled my generals and commanded a landing at the Norfolk coast which surprised everyone including Paddy. 🧵
The key evolutions of the .303 bullet during the 20th century.
August 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The key evolutions of the .303 bullet during the 20th century.
I've been given what may be a super rare .303 MkIV bullet 😀
It's far from pristine but very hard to find.
It's far from pristine but very hard to find.
August 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I've been given what may be a super rare .303 MkIV bullet 😀
It's far from pristine but very hard to find.
It's far from pristine but very hard to find.
Interesting stats for the allocation of Blacker Bombards to specific units of the Regulars and Home Guard in January 1942. I was expecting the Home Guard to have been issued with significantly more than the Regs.
August 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Interesting stats for the allocation of Blacker Bombards to specific units of the Regulars and Home Guard in January 1942. I was expecting the Home Guard to have been issued with significantly more than the Regs.
Finally getting back into some War Diary defence mapping. This time I've mapped 81 cratered roads as of June 1941. This is significant as it adds additional depth to the defences I've already mapped, in particular the bridges prepared for demolition.
August 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Finally getting back into some War Diary defence mapping. This time I've mapped 81 cratered roads as of June 1941. This is significant as it adds additional depth to the defences I've already mapped, in particular the bridges prepared for demolition.
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We had 90 people turn up last night to hear @ckolonko.bsky.social talk about WW2 pillboxes. If you want to come to our talks in the New Forest on wartime history, drop me email address in a message and will add you to the mailing list. Forthcoming talks in next tweet.
August 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We had 90 people turn up last night to hear @ckolonko.bsky.social talk about WW2 pillboxes. If you want to come to our talks in the New Forest on wartime history, drop me email address in a message and will add you to the mailing list. Forthcoming talks in next tweet.
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Another excellent talk booked by @newforestramble.bsky.social I shall never look at a pillbox the same way again, nor will I ever allow anybody to call one a bunker.
August 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Another excellent talk booked by @newforestramble.bsky.social I shall never look at a pillbox the same way again, nor will I ever allow anybody to call one a bunker.
All set up for tonight's talk :D
August 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
All set up for tonight's talk :D
Well.... that's a new one 🤣🤣🤣
August 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Well.... that's a new one 🤣🤣🤣
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New on the #WatchingBrief YouTube Channel
The full background to this weeks announcement by Historic England of the bulk listing of WW1 Pill Boxes in Norfolk and what lessons can be learned from the process?
With guest conflict archaeologist @ckolonko.bsky.social whose work led to the listing.
The full background to this weeks announcement by Historic England of the bulk listing of WW1 Pill Boxes in Norfolk and what lessons can be learned from the process?
With guest conflict archaeologist @ckolonko.bsky.social whose work led to the listing.
Eight World War One Pillboxes – Grade II Listed by Historic England
YouTube video by The Watching Brief
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August 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
New on the #WatchingBrief YouTube Channel
The full background to this weeks announcement by Historic England of the bulk listing of WW1 Pill Boxes in Norfolk and what lessons can be learned from the process?
With guest conflict archaeologist @ckolonko.bsky.social whose work led to the listing.
The full background to this weeks announcement by Historic England of the bulk listing of WW1 Pill Boxes in Norfolk and what lessons can be learned from the process?
With guest conflict archaeologist @ckolonko.bsky.social whose work led to the listing.