Monument record TR 15 NE 912 - Second World War Home Guard Headquarters in the Village Hut, Bekesbourne

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.
Owner : Unknown
Publicly accessible : Unknown
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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.