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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 NW 286 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Air raid shelter, near the Esplanade, Rochester |
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Summary
Tunnels used as air raid shelters located near the river medway opposite Temple Marsh.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7382 6786 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ76NW |
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| Parish: | ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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Several tunnels used as shelters in WW2. (1,3)
Additional Information (2).
<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.
<2> Southern Testing, 1997, Preliminary Site Assessment Report of Former Blaw Knox Site, The Esplanade, Rochester (Unpublished document). SWX7051.
<3> Kent Underground Research Group, 1997, ARP Shelters, Blaw Knox Works, Rochester (Unpublished document). SKE12107.
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 | Unpublished document: Southern Testing. 1997. Preliminary Site Assessment Report of Former Blaw Knox Site, The Esplanade, Rochester. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Kent Underground Research Group. 1997. ARP Shelters, Blaw Knox Works, Rochester. |
