By mid April 13 1941 two single-span wooden farm bridges, on where Canterbury High School now stands, had been prepared for demolition. ‘Two beach mines (improvised) with gelignite [were] fitted under the centre of [each] bridge’, and a ‘10 gallon oil drum filled with an inflammable mixture’ was kept at the site as a stand-by. These bridges seem to have been built across an anti-tank ditch forming part of the Dover, Canterbury, Whitstable Stop Line of 1940, by or on behalf of a farmer whose fields the ditch had bisected.
Owner : Unknown
Publicly accessible : No
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Tourism Potential :
Condition : Destroyed
Date of visit :

553 Field Company Royal Engineers, 01/01/41, War Diary 553 Field Company Royal Engineers 1941 (Unpublished document). SKE15514.

553 Field Company Royal Engineers, 01/01/41, War Diary 553 Field Company Royal Engineers 1941 (Unpublished document). Ske15514.