Second World War Emergency Water Tank utilising the swimming pool in Ordnance Road, Gravesend. This use probably began in 1940, to provide a supply of water for fighting fires in the neighbourhood in the event of an air raid. No other details are known. It would have been decommissioned for war purposes at the end of the Second World War in Europe in 1945. The swimming pool was infilled about 1990.
Owner : Public
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey : The swimming pool no longer exists but its site is within a public open space
Tourism Potential : None
Condition : Destroyed
Date of visit : 16/01/06

Gravesend's civil defence authority, Untitled and undated Second World War map of civil defence structures in Gravesend (Map). SKE13879.

Gravesend's civil defence authority, Untitled and undated Second World War map of civil defence structures in Gravesend (Map). Ske13879.