TR 15 NE 815 - Second World War Civil Defence warden’s post at 50 Lansdown Road, Canterbury

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Building record TR 15 NE 815 - Second World War Civil Defence warden’s post at 50 Lansdown Road, Canterbury

Summary

There was a Second World War Civil Defence warden’s post in the shored-up basement of 50 Lansdown Road. It was made redundant in a rearrangement of wardens’ posts around April 1943.

Location

Grid reference	TR 1508 5721 (point)
Map sheet	TR15NE
County	KENT
District	CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish	CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT

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Type and Period (1)

AIR RAID WARDENS POST (Modern - 1939 AD? to 1939 AD?)

Full Description

There was a Second World War Civil Defence warden’s post (Post C6/7) in the shored-up basement of 50 Lansdown Road (business premises of a sanitary engineer, in a kind of corner-shop affair). This was an ordinary (or ‘Action Warning’) post, only manned on Action Warning. Around the end of 1940 the post was provided with sleeping accommodation. It was made redundant in a rearrangement of wardens’ posts around April 1943.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
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Condition : unknown
Date of visit :

Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee, 01/01/39, Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee Minute Books 1 to 6 (Unpublished document). SKE14800.

Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee, 01/01/39, Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee Minute Books 1 to 6 (Unpublished document). Ske14800.

Simon Williamson, 01/01/39, Chief Air-Raid Warden’s notebook (Unpublished document). SKE14801.

Simon Williamson, 01/01/39, Chief Air-Raid Warden’s notebook (Unpublished document). Ske14801.

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--- SKE14800 Unpublished document: Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee. 01/01/39. Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee Minute Books 1 to 6.
--- SKE14800 Unpublished document: Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee. 01/01/39. Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee Minute Books 1 to 6.
--- SKE14801 Unpublished document: Simon Williamson. 01/01/39. Chief Air-Raid Warden’s notebook.
--- SKE14801 Unpublished document: Simon Williamson. 01/01/39. Chief Air-Raid Warden’s notebook.