A group of possible Second World War allotments can be seen on aerial photographs taken in 1946. These allotments are situated in a triangular piece of land behind houses on East Milton Road, Bellman Avenue and Abbey Road and centred on TQ 6622 7324. Most of these houses had been built by 1936 but no allotments are marked on the pre-war maps of this area. A small group of allotments also occupied the area forming the corner of Abbey Road and Bellman Avenue but these had been built over by 1954. It is possible that these allotments were created as part of the Dig for Victory campaign that was introduced in September 1940. This campaign encouraged people to produce their own food in response to the wartime shortages. These were mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project.(1-3)

<1> RAF, 1946, NMR RAF CPE/UK/1789 4123-4124 11-OCT-1946 (Photograph). SKE58426.

<4> Historic England, Archive material (Archive). SKE58415.