Cold War Civil Defence Training Centre and Social Club in a red brick Victorian house at 60 Pelham Road, Gravesend. Details of any adaptations made are unknown. The house was requisitioned in 1958 to serve the civil defence organisation in Gravesend. It may have been in use until the end of Britain's Civil Defence Corps in 1968. It remains in use as a Soroptimist home for the elderly.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey : The interior of the building is private accommodation for the elderly
Tourism Potential : None
Condition : unknown
Date of visit : 20/01/06

Gravesend Council, 10/02/58, Minutes of Gravesend Council's Civil Defence Committee (Bibliographic reference). SKE13943.

Gravesend Council, 10/02/58, Minutes of Gravesend Council's Civil Defence Committee (Bibliographic reference). Ske13943.