Monument record TR 15 NW 961 - Second World War ‘roadblocks’ at farmers’ bridges across the Dover, Canterbury, Whitstable Stop Line, north of the railway junction at Canterbury

Summary

By mid April 13 1941 two single-span wooden farm bridges, on where Canterbury High School now stands, had been prepared for demolition. ‘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.

Location

Grid reference TR 1376 5770 (point)
Map sheet TR15NW
County KENT
District CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT

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Full Description

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553 Field Company Royal Engineers, 01/01/41, War Diary 553 Field Company Royal Engineers 1941 (Unpublished document).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553 Field Company Royal Engineers, 01/01/41, War Diary 553 Field Company Royal Engineers 1941 (Unpublished document).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

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  • --- Unpublished document: 553 Field Company Royal Engineers. 01/01/41. War Diary 553 Field Company Royal Engineers 1941.
  • --- Unpublished document: 553 Field Company Royal Engineers. 01/01/41. War Diary 553 Field Company Royal Engineers 1941.

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Record last edited

Aug 4 2009 5:55AM