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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43489 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Anti-Tank Cubes, Eastern Shakespeare beach, West Dover. |
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Summary
World War 2 Anti-Tank Cubes, Eastern Shakespeare beach, West Dover.
| Grid Reference: | TR 31883 40259 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- ANTI TANK OBSTACLE (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Full description
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First observed using military aerial photographs from June 1942 [1]. Spanning a distance of 50m the twenty four cube's of reinforced concrete create an obstruction between the railway station wall near the and the western dock in Dover. They cover a narrow section of track to the beach where a small boat yard and small vessels are laid up. It is the third phase in defence throughout the duration of the war observed until April 1947 [2], behind a scaffold beach structure Mwx43488 and a Type 22 Pillbox Mke42061/Mke16962. The cubes were observed as removed by April 1950 [3].
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photographs exists within a GIS layer held by this HER.
Related records
| TR 34 SW 1761 | Parent of: Barbed Wire and Scaffold Beach Obstruction on Shakespeare beach, west Dover (Monument) |
