Building record TQ 67 SE 1169 - Cornwell Avenue Second World War First Aid Post, Gravesend

Summary

Second World War First Aid Post established in 1941 at the Child Welfare Centre in Cornwell Avenue, Gravesend. This is a single-storey brick building with a pitched ceramic tiled roof. This was for initial care for those injured during an air raid and would have been decommissioned by the end of the Second World War in Europe in 1945. In modernised form the building survives.

Location

Grid reference TQ 6544 7232 (point)
Map sheet TQ67SE
Civil Parish GRAVESEND, GRAVESHAM, KENT
County KENT
District GRAVESHAM, KENT

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Full Description

Gravesend MB Council, 26/03/41, Minutes of Gravesend Council's Watch Committee (Bibliographic reference). SKE13843.

Gravesend MB Council, 26/03/41, Minutes of Gravesend Council's Watch Committee (Bibliographic reference). Ske13843.

Smith, V.T.C., 30/03/06, Cornwell Avenue Second World War First Aid Post, Gravesend (Photograph). SKE13867.

Smith, V.T.C., 30/03/06, Cornwell Avenue Second World War First Aid Post, Gravesend (Photograph). Ske13867.

Sources/Archives (4)

  • --- Bibliographic reference: Gravesend MB Council. 26/03/41. Minutes of Gravesend Council's Watch Committee.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: Gravesend MB Council. 26/03/41. Minutes of Gravesend Council's Watch Committee.
  • --- Photograph: Smith, V.T.C.. 30/03/06. Cornwell Avenue Second World War First Aid Post, Gravesend.
  • --- Photograph: Smith, V.T.C.. 30/03/06. Cornwell Avenue Second World War First Aid Post, Gravesend.

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Record last edited

Jul 31 2009 4:27AM