Building record TR 15 NE 790 - Second World War fortified house on Ersham Road, Canterbury
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TR 1539 5720 (point) |
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Map sheet | TR15NE |
County | KENT |
District | CANTERBURY, KENT |
Civil Parish | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
Map
Type and Period (1)
Full Description
A building on Ersham Road (Military Grid Reference R 595754) had been adopted as a fortified house by November 1940. This was fortified house No. 42 in a list of such structures made 2 December that year. This might possibly have been 8 Ersham Road, which served as a Regimental Aid Post in 1941, but this seems distrinctly unlikely. Perhaps more likely it was at the end of this little cul-de-sac, protecting the rear of Telephone House (now Becket House), which was a vital communications facility.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential :
Condition : unknown
Date of visit :
CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE15574.
CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). Ske15574.
43 Division General Staff, 01/01/40, War Diary 43 Division General Staff (Unpublished document). SKE15575.
43 Division General Staff, 01/01/40, War Diary 43 Division General Staff (Unpublished document). Ske15575.
Sources/Archives (4)
- --- SKE15574 Digital archive: CBA Defence of Britain Project.
- --- SKE15574 Digital archive: CBA Defence of Britain Project.
- --- SKE15575 Unpublished document: 43 Division General Staff. 01/01/40. War Diary 43 Division General Staff.
- --- SKE15575 Unpublished document: 43 Division General Staff. 01/01/40. War Diary 43 Division General Staff.
Finds (0)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Aug 4 2009 5:58AM