At the end of October 1940 the Canterbury Emergency Committee ordered that a scheme be prepared scheme for the erection of two communal surface shelters on two sites, in New Ruttington Lane and High Street St Gregory respectively. Each was to provide shelter for 112 persons, and the shelters (which both lay on the edge of a flood-plain) were ordered to be sunk ‘as far below ground-level as possible.’ In mid November, the scheme was adapted to accept bunks - very few shelters in Canterbury at this time were thus provided. The shelters seem to have been completed by mid January 1941. In January the following year this shelter was listed as providing 192 places. In February 1942 they were strengthened with reinforced concrete. The High Street St Gregory shelter stood immediately north-west of the junction of Victoria Row with High Street St Gregory’s. This is now the site of modern flats.
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Condition : Destroyed
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Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee, 01/01/39, Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee Minute Books 1 to 6 (Unpublished document). SKE14930.

Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee, 01/01/39, Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee Minute Books 1 to 6 (Unpublished document). Ske14930.