Monument record TR 15 NE 822 - Second World War fortified house on or near the City Wall north of Queningate, Canterbury

By mid September 1941, probably as part of the strengthening of the Canterbury Fortress, a fortified house had been established in a building on or near the City Wall about 100m north of the Queningate postern. This is difficult to interpret. The plan attached to the 1941 Canterbury Fortress Defence Scheme shows it set well back from Broad Street, so it cannot really have been one of the street-level premises which formerly occupied the northern end of the present Broad Street Car Park. Could it possibly have been the Bastion adjoining the Deanery Garden, with an elevated vantage point from which to fire south or east? Around the end of July 1941, the 210 Field Company Royal Engineers had been ordered to select ‘positions ... which will enable fire to be brought on the Cattle Market, Lower Bridge Street, Broad Street, and on all roads, lanes, passages and yards which give access to these streets from the east. Buildings will be selected for this purpose and any necessary loopholing and sandbagging done as soon as the position is occupied.’
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Canterbury Fortress headquarters, 01/01/41, War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1941 (Unpublished document). SKE15595.

Canterbury Fortress headquarters, 01/01/41, War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1941 (Unpublished document). Ske15595.

Canterbury Fortress headquarters, 01/01/42, War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1942 (Unpublished document). SKE15596.

Canterbury Fortress headquarters, 01/01/42, War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1942 (Unpublished document). Ske15596.