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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 76 NE 161
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Second World War Telephone Exchange, Chatham Dockyard

Summary

Emergency bomb-proof telephone exchange (remains)

Grid Reference:	TQ 7605 6910
Map Sheet:	TQ76NE
Parish:	ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

AIR RAID SHELTER (AIR RAID SHELTER, Modern - 1901 AD to 2050 AD)
TELEPHONE EXCHANGE (TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, Modern - 1901 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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An underground chamber examined on 05-JUL-1989 beneath the gardens of the Officers Terrace, Chatham Dockyard, proved to be an emergency telephone exchange to provide bomb-proof communications within the dockyard during the Second World War. [Report and plan]. (1)

<1> Kent Underground Res Grp Res Rep 6 1989 82-85 (R Le Gear, A Pearce) (OS Card Reference). SKE45952.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>	OS Card Reference: Kent Underground Res Grp Res Rep 6 1989 82-85 (R Le Gear, A Pearce).

Related records

TQ 77 SE 220

Part of: Chatham Royal Naval Dockyard (Monument)