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Monument record TQ 67 SE 1152 - Shornemead Fort Coast Artillery Searchlights, Shorne Marshes
Summary
Pair of c. 1900 defence electric lights in concrete housings about 25 m apart, on the riverbank some 75 m. NW of Shornemead Fort. The lights were sited to provide illumination for the boom defence battery some 200 m. east of the fort. They might have continued to assist the Second World War emergency battery east of the fort as they are shown in an aerial photograph of 1946. Subsequently demolished, they could have been a casualty of improvement works to the river flood defence bank in c.1949.
Location
Grid reference | Centred TQ 6911 7481 (30m by 0m) (2 map features) |
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Map sheet | TQ67SE |
County | KENT |
District | GRAVESHAM, KENT |
Civil Parish | SHORNE, GRAVESHAM, KENT |
Map
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Full Description
War Office, 01/09/30, Shornemead Fort (Map). SKE14017.
War Office, 01/09/30, Shornemead Fort (Map). Ske14017.
War Office, 12/02/1897, Minefield Battery at Shornemead Fort (Map). SKE14016.
War Office, 12/02/1897, Minefield Battery at Shornemead Fort (Map). Ske14016.
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Record last edited
Oct 23 2017 4:21PM