Building record TQ 67 SE 1200 - Shornemead Fort pillbox, Shorne Marshes

Summary

Second World War octagonal brick pillbox about 3.5 m across and let into the flood defence bank on a stepped concrete base, about 180 m east of Shornemead Fort. Its superstructure is no longer extant and appears to have been a flat roof supported on steel girders. There appears to have been river-facing and side facing apertures, covered with flapped shutters, part of whose fixings remain. It was probably built in 1941 as part of the defences of the formerly-existing wartime emergency battery a short distance to the rear, and would have been decommissioned by 1945. Summary from record TQ 67 SE 228: Pillbox (1940), near Higham Crreek

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Grid reference TQ 69532 74845 (point)
Map sheet TQ67SE
County KENT
District GRAVESHAM, KENT
Civil Parish SHORNE, GRAVESHAM, KENT

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Smith, V.T.C., 29/01/07, Verbal Communication (Verbal communication). SKE14028.

Smith, V.T.C., 29/01/07, Verbal Communication (Verbal communication). Ske14028.

<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.

<2> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9420.

<3> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9859.

<4> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9866.

<5> 1942, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10003.

<6> 1941, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10113.

<7> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10271.

<8> 1978, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10929.

<9> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document). SWX12323.

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  • --- Verbal communication: Smith, V.T.C.. 29/01/07. Verbal Communication.
  • --- Verbal communication: Smith, V.T.C.. 29/01/07. Verbal Communication.
  • <1> Index: Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy. Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites.
  • <2> Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 3106. print.
  • <3> Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 4045. print.
  • <4> Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 4068. print.
  • <5> Photograph (Print): 1942. Photograph. 36. print.
  • <6> Photograph (Print): 1941. Photograph. 2025. print.
  • <7> Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 161. print.
  • <8> Photograph (Print): 1978. Photograph. TQ6974/2. print.
  • <9> Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report.

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  • Non-Intrusive Event: Survey, North Kent Coastal Zone: Phase ll, Year Two (Ref: 56751) (EWX8626)

Record last edited

Jan 6 2012 3:43PM