At the start of September 1939 an air-raid shelter was being dug on the south-west side of Old Dover Road, opposite the Kent and Canterbury Club. On post-war aerial photographs one can see the shelters, aligned north-west to south-east parallel to the road, with a concrete entrance passage extending up to the roadside mid-way along. One can make out neat mounds of earth over each of the short compartments. Each compartment had a wall at each end, perhaps of concrete, and seems to have been about 10m long. This shelter does not seem feature in a list of public and communal shelters made in late January 1942; might it have been a private shelter (for the Kent and Canterbury Club?)?
Owner : Public
Publicly accessible : Unknown
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Condition : Destroyed
Date of visit :

Peter Holmes, 01/01/95, "And We All Got Under the Table": Under Fire 1939-45 A VE Day Commemmoration (Bibliographic reference). SKE14871.

Peter Holmes, 01/01/95, "And We All Got Under the Table": Under Fire 1939-45 A VE Day Commemmoration (Bibliographic reference). Ske14871.