By mid April 1941 ‘two beach mines (improvised) with gelignite [had been] fitted under the centre of’ a single-span wooden farm bridge, over the Dover, Canterbury, Whitstable Stop Line, in a field near the south-west corner of the northward extension of Canterbury Cemetery. A ‘10 gallon oil drum filled with an inflammable mixture’ was kept at the site as a stand-by. There was no obvious watercourse in the vicinity of the Stop Line at this point; instead, the line here took the form of a deep anti-tank ditch. Almost certainly, therefore, the bridge will have been a wartime bridge erected by or on behalf to the farmer, c.1940, across the new anti-tank ditch. The precise location is evident on immediate post-war aerial photographs, where a track crosses the (by then infilled) ditch of the Stop Line.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : Unknown
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Condition : Destroyed
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553 Field Company Royal Engineers, 01/01/41, War Diary 553 Field Company Royal Engineers 1941 (Unpublished document). SKE15513.

553 Field Company Royal Engineers, 01/01/41, War Diary 553 Field Company Royal Engineers 1941 (Unpublished document). Ske15513.