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.
chriskolonko.wordpress.com
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
Go on. Give it a watch.
December 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Go on. Give it a watch.
Reposted by Chris Kolonko-Weet
Didn't expect to be making this video this morning, but seeing a wartime photo posted to Facebook just before I went to bed last night got me thinking.
Let's a take a look at Exercise Ajax in Hull in July 1941.
youtu.be/iPiDDNH8vaU
#RememberTheRegulars #WW2 #History #SecondWorldWar
Let's a take a look at Exercise Ajax in Hull in July 1941.
youtu.be/iPiDDNH8vaU
#RememberTheRegulars #WW2 #History #SecondWorldWar
Exercise Ajax, Home Guard and the forgotten Regulars: What we don't see in this photo from 1941
YouTube video by Remember the Regulars
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Didn't expect to be making this video this morning, but seeing a wartime photo posted to Facebook just before I went to bed last night got me thinking.
Let's a take a look at Exercise Ajax in Hull in July 1941.
youtu.be/iPiDDNH8vaU
#RememberTheRegulars #WW2 #History #SecondWorldWar
Let's a take a look at Exercise Ajax in Hull in July 1941.
youtu.be/iPiDDNH8vaU
#RememberTheRegulars #WW2 #History #SecondWorldWar
Didn't expect to be making this video this morning, but seeing a wartime photo posted to Facebook just before I went to bed last night got me thinking.
Let's a take a look at Exercise Ajax in Hull in July 1941.
youtu.be/iPiDDNH8vaU
#RememberTheRegulars #WW2 #History #SecondWorldWar
Let's a take a look at Exercise Ajax in Hull in July 1941.
youtu.be/iPiDDNH8vaU
#RememberTheRegulars #WW2 #History #SecondWorldWar
Exercise Ajax, Home Guard and the forgotten Regulars: What we don't see in this photo from 1941
YouTube video by Remember the Regulars
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Didn't expect to be making this video this morning, but seeing a wartime photo posted to Facebook just before I went to bed last night got me thinking.
Let's a take a look at Exercise Ajax in Hull in July 1941.
youtu.be/iPiDDNH8vaU
#RememberTheRegulars #WW2 #History #SecondWorldWar
Let's a take a look at Exercise Ajax in Hull in July 1941.
youtu.be/iPiDDNH8vaU
#RememberTheRegulars #WW2 #History #SecondWorldWar
Finally getting back into the swing of things after several very busy months. Just finished the 2D plan of a pillbox I surveyed with staff and volunteers from the Canal and River Trust. Next step is writing the site record.
December 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Finally getting back into the swing of things after several very busy months. Just finished the 2D plan of a pillbox I surveyed with staff and volunteers from the Canal and River Trust. Next step is writing the site record.
Reposted by Chris Kolonko-Weet
Fortifications of the Firth of Forth in 1941 - these show some of the fortifications on Inchkeith. More info in the ALT (Images from IWM). Inchkeith is a familiar landmark to me - hooning about it doing 'rescue boat' cover when i was a student! @ckolonko.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Fortifications of the Firth of Forth in 1941 - these show some of the fortifications on Inchkeith. More info in the ALT (Images from IWM). Inchkeith is a familiar landmark to me - hooning about it doing 'rescue boat' cover when i was a student! @ckolonko.bsky.social
Set out to buy a very expensive Fender US-made Telecaster. Ended up with a very cheap Epiphone instead 😀 Very happy with my first 335-type.
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Set out to buy a very expensive Fender US-made Telecaster. Ended up with a very cheap Epiphone instead 😀 Very happy with my first 335-type.
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.
Reposted by Chris Kolonko-Weet
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
Reposted by Chris Kolonko-Weet
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
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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.
Reposted by Chris Kolonko-Weet
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..
Reposted by Chris Kolonko-Weet
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.
