The Bekesbourne Home Guard had their headquarters in the Village Hut. This has since been demolished and there is now a new hall on about the same site. One of their tasks was to defend the nearby roadblock on Bekesbourne Lane, under the railway bridge -- part of the Dover, Canterbury, Whitstable Stop Line defences. The hut was evidently provided with modest defensive features; a ‘dug-out and slit trenches on the path on Station Road near the hut’ were among a number of defence works in Bekesbourne to be waiting to be cleared at the end of the Second World War.
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Condition : Destroyed
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Millyard D., 01/01/96, Bekesbourne and the Second World War (Bibliographic reference). SKE15196.

Millyard D., 01/01/96, Bekesbourne and the Second World War (Bibliographic reference). Ske15196.