Source/Archive record (Verbal communication) SKE30957 - Defence of Thanet Project: verbal communication from Mark Samuel

Title Defence of Thanet Project: verbal communication from Mark Samuel
Author/Originator
Date/Year 2015

Abstract/Summary

In 2015 the Defence of Thanet project aimed to gather information on the 20th century military and civil defence sites of Thanet. A number of researchers supported the project by telling Kent County Council about sites they had discovered.

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unpublished

Location

Referenced Monuments (101)

  • 'Fort Crescent' Battery 2 X 6" guns, 335 Battery. (Monument)
  • 'leichte Flak' (light anti aircraft) battery (Monument)
  • 'Munro Cobb's' Approximate site of Air Raid shelter according to Thanet Gazette 10.7.15. (Monument)
  • 19th century barrel vaulted ammunition magazines supporting walkway for ordnance. (Monument)
  • 3 possible Second World War anti-aircraft guns set in a triangle (Monument)
  • A Second World War defended area, Westbrook Bay, Westbrook (Monument)
  • A Second World War zig-zag slit trench system with hexagonal strong point and "T" observation points (Monument)
  • Approx centre of field used as 'Tankanlage' (fuel dump?). (Monument)
  • Approx position 'Arrangement of unknown type' shown on 11.1940 Fortifications map. (Monument)
  • Approx position of 'doubtful' pillbox plotted on 1940 Luftwaffe map (Monument)
  • Approx position of 'Klein-Kampfanlage' defence of 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approx position of 'Klein-Kampfanlage' defence of 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approx position of a machine gun anti-aircraft site identified on a 1940 Luftwaffe reconnnaisance map. Not visible on 1946 aerials (Monument)
  • Approx position of a pillbox and trenches identified on a 1940 Luftwaffe reconnnaisance map. Not visible on 1946 aerials (Monument)
  • Approx position of a pillbox identified on a 1940 Luftwaffe reconnnaisance map (Monument)
  • Approx position of a pillbox identified on a 1940 Luftwaffe reconnnaisance map. Not visible on 1946 aerials (Monument)
  • Approx position of a pillbox identified on a 1940 Luftwaffe reconnnaisance map. Not visible on 1946 aerials (Monument)
  • Approx position of an 'uncertain' pillbox identified on a 1940 Luftwaffe reconnnaisance map. Not visible on 1946 aerials (Monument)
  • Approx position of two road blocks identified on a 1940 Luftwaffe reconnnaisance map. Not visible on 1946 aerials (Monument)
  • Approx site of pillbox identified on 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approx site of pillbox identified on 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approx site of pillbox identified on 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approx site of pillbox identified on 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approx site of pillbox identified on 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approx site of pillbox identified on 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approx site of pillbox identified on 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approx site of pillbox identified on 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approx site of uncertain Second World War site on Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approximate centre point of concrete structure on regular iron girders extending for c. 62 m along cliff edge. (Monument)
  • Approximate position of 'arrangement of unknown purpose' defence site shown on 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map. (Monument)
  • Approximate position of 'arrangement of unknown purpose' shown 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approximate position of 'arrangement of unknown purpose' shown on 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approximate position of 'arrangement of unknown purpose' shown on 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approximate position of 'arrangement of unknown purpose' shown on 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approximate position of 'Klein-Kampfanlage' defence site marked on 1940 Luftwaffe map (Monument)
  • Approximate position of Anti-Aircraft defence. (Monument)
  • Approximate position of anti-aircraft gun plotted on German Luftwaffe map (1940) (Monument)
  • Approximate position of anti-aircraft gun plotted on German Luftwaffe map (1940) (Monument)
  • Approximate position of Klein-Kampfanlage. (Monument)
  • Approximate position of Klein-Kampfanlage. (Monument)
  • Approximate position of Klein-Kampfanlage. (Monument)
  • Approximate position of pillbox shown on Luftwaffe 1940 Map. (Monument)
  • Approximate position of possible Second World War defence site (Monument)
  • Approximate position of roadblock shown on 11.1940 map. (Monument)
  • Approximate position of Second World War pillbox as indicated on a 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Approximate position of Second World War pillbox as indicated on a 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map. Marked as 'doubtful' (Monument)
  • Approximate site of 'College Road' Second World War Air Raid shelter (Monument)
  • Approximate site of 'Dane Park' Second World War Air Raid shelter (Monument)
  • Approximate site of 'doubtful' Klein Kampfanlage. (Monument)
  • Approximate site of 'possible' Klein Kampfanlage shown on German 11.1940 map. (Monument)
  • Approximate site of 'possible' Klein Kampfanlage. (Monument)
  • Approximate site of Air Raid shelter (Monument)
  • Approximate site of Air Raid shelter (Monument)
  • Approximate site of Second World War air raid shelter (Monument)
  • Approximate site of Second World War air raid shelter (Monument)
  • Approximate site of Second World War air raid shelter (Monument)
  • Approximate site of Second World War air raid shelter (Monument)
  • Arrangement of unknown type' shown on 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map. (Monument)
  • Emergency slipway (Monument)
  • German 'uncertain' defence structure shown on 1940 Luftwaffe map. Mounds, gun emplacements, ditches seen on aerial photographs at this location (Monument)
  • Massive broken slab of concrete in cliff face with void below it. (Monument)
  • Possible buried gun emplacement visible as parchmark. (Monument)
  • Possible buried gun emplacement visible as parchmark. (Monument)
  • Possible concrete floor slab (Monument)
  • Possible defence work identified on Luftwaffe Second World War reconnaissance map 1940 (Monument)
  • Possible defence work identified on Luftwaffe Second World War reconnaissance map. (Monument)
  • Possible military site identified by Luftwaffe during Second World War (Monument)
  • Possible pillbox plotted on Second World War Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Possible pillbox shown on Luftwaffe map of 1940 (Monument)
  • Possible Second World War anti-tank barrier (Monument)
  • Possible Second World War anti-tank ditch (Monument)
  • Possible Second World War defence site indicated on a 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Possible Second World War defence site, St Nicholas at Wade (Monument)
  • Possible Second World War defence work (Monument)
  • Probable position of 'Klein-Kampfanlage' defence site shown on 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Probable position of 'Wegesperre' (road block) indicted on 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Probable position of 'Wegesperre' (road block). (Monument)
  • Probable position of destroyed 'Klein Kampfanlage' (Pillbox?). (Monument)
  • Probable position of destroyed 'Klein Kampfanlage' (Pillbox?). (Monument)
  • Probable position of destroyed 'Klein Kampfanlage' (Pillbox?). (Monument)
  • Probable position of destroyed 'Klein Kampfanlage' (Pillbox?). (Monument)
  • Second World War air raid shelter ''at Dog and Duck, Hartsdown Road'' (Monument)
  • Second World War air raid shelter (Monument)
  • Second World War air raid shelter in Adrian Square (Monument)
  • Second World War air raid shelter in Cliff Road (Monument)
  • Second World War air raid shelter in Garden Estate Park Lane (POSSIBLE). (Monument)
  • Second World War Air raid shelter in Hartsdown Park according to Thanet Gazette 10.7.15. (Monument)
  • Second World War air raid shelter in Minnis Road (Monument)
  • Second World War air raid shelter in Saxon Road (Monument)
  • Second World War air raid shelter in Victoria Avenue (Monument)
  • Second World War Air-Raid Precautions post (Monument)
  • Second World War defended area on the former Hengrove Golf Course (Monument)
  • Second World War defended gun position, St Nicholas at Wade (Monument)
  • Second World War pillbox identified on a 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Second World War road block, Belgrave Road (Monument)
  • Second World War trench indicated on a 1940 Luftwaffe reconnaissance map (Monument)
  • Second World War trench system shown on Luftwaffe map (1940) (Monument)
  • Second World War trench visible as cropmark. (Monument)
  • Site of Second World War air raid shelter, part of Ramsgate tunnels (Monument)
  • Traces of possible Second World War trench/?barbed wire system visible as earthworks (2014) and/or as parchmarks. (Monument)
  • Trench system visible as parchmark in 2013 aerial photographs (Monument)

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