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Listed Building record TQ 67 SW 187 - Gravesend Civil Defence Sub-Divisional Control Centre
Summary
Cold war bunker/command post at Gravesend. A suite of 13 underground rooms in a concrete and brick structure, with a staircased entrance from Wrotham Road and an exit within Woodlands Park. The structure is mounded with earth and has a covering of turf, through which several ventilating chimneys project. Interior of the control centre retains its ventilating plant and fixed furniture in the message room.
Summary from record TQ 67 SW 1267:
Cold War Civil Defence Control Centre at the eastern (Wrotham Road) side of Woodlands Park, Gravesend. Built in 1954, it is a rectangular buried ferro-concrete box, with 13 rooms, excavated into the grass of the park, and decommissioned c. 1970. Now a museum.
Location
| Grid reference | TQ 6445 7288 (point) Centred |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | TQ67SW |
| Civil Parish | GRAVESEND, GRAVESHAM, KENT |
| County | KENT |
| District | GRAVESHAM, KENT |
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Full Description
Gravesham Borough Council, 01/01/78, Civil Defence Control centre from 1952-1978 (Unpublished document). SKE13763.
Gravesham Borough Council, 01/01/78, Civil Defence Control centre from 1952-1978 (Unpublished document). Ske13763.
English Heritage, 2001, Cold War Monuments: an assessment by the Monuments Protection Programme (Unpublished document). SKE17446.
Smith, V.T.C., 23/09/06, Woodlands Park Cold War Civil Defence Control Centre, Gravesend (Photograph). SKE13787.
Smith, V.T.C., 23/09/06, Woodlands Park Cold War Civil Defence Control Centre, Gravesend (Photograph). Ske13787.
<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Site visit by VTC Smith 1995 (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.
Sources/Archives (6)
- --- SKE13763 Unpublished document: Gravesham Borough Council. 01/01/78. Civil Defence Control centre from 1952-1978.
- --- SKE13763 Unpublished document: Gravesham Borough Council. 01/01/78. Civil Defence Control centre from 1952-1978.
- --- SKE13787 Photograph: Smith, V.T.C.. 23/09/06. Woodlands Park Cold War Civil Defence Control Centre, Gravesend.
- --- SKE13787 Photograph: Smith, V.T.C.. 23/09/06. Woodlands Park Cold War Civil Defence Control Centre, Gravesend.
- --- SKE17446 Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2001. Cold War Monuments: an assessment by the Monuments Protection Programme.
- <1> SKE6440 Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. Site visit by VTC Smith 1995.
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Record last edited
Feb 19 2024 2:23PM