The site of Two Second World War air raid shelters, on the eastern side of Hartsdown Road, on the western edge of Hartsdown Park, Margate. The shelters are visible as linear earthen banks (possibly semi-sunken) with angular crenellated plan and a single entrance in opposite ends. They appeared on aerial photographs - RAF/26J/BR194 VC 15 10-JAN-1941. They are both later noted to be levelled earthworks on Next Perspectives APGB Imagery 07-APR-2021. They were mapped as part of the Historic England Thanet Landscape Mapping Project 2024. Removed after the end of the war.

NB. A Second World War air raid shelter is noted in Hartsdown Park (exact location not stated) in record TR 37 SW 1086. It is possible that this record referrs to the site of the two shelters described in this record.(1-2)

<1> Historic England Archive, 1941-1960, Historic England Archive RAF vertical aerial photographs, RAF/26J/BR194 VC 15 10-JAN-194 (Archive). SKE57101.

<2> Next Perspectives, 2003-2021, Next Perspectives APGB orthophotography, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery 07-APR-2021 (Archive). SKE57110.