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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 76 NE 342
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of a World War road block, Chatham Commerical Dockyard

Summary

An entrance block comprising two large concrete blocks and slots to take a steel girder spanning the gap between them. Built it 1940 as a road block, it was demolished in 1996.


Grid Reference:TQ 7731 6953
Map Sheet:TQ76NE
Parish:GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • TANK TRAP (Demolished 1996, Modern - 1940 AD? to 1996 AD (between))

Full description

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Two concrete cubes either side of roadway, recessed to receive an iron girder of length of rail. Area may be developed. Eastern end of HMS Pembroke, Chatham Maritime. (1)

Pair of large concrete block either side of gate supported rail block with 12' slot to recieve the steel girder. Raised concrte platform adjoining the eastern block has mountings for rollers to aid moving the girder. Built c1940. Demolished 1996.(2)


<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.

<2> Smith, V., 1997, Chatham Commercial Dockyard Defences: Pillbox & Entrance Block (Unpublished document). SWX6992.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Index: Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy. Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites.
<2>Unpublished document: Smith, V.. 1997. Chatham Commercial Dockyard Defences: Pillbox & Entrance Block.