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Possible Air Raid Shelter
This structure could possibly have been used as an Air Raid Shelter or a Wardens post by the workers of a nearby works in the Second...

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Jun 15, 20211 min read
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Uplees Explosives Factories
The Cotton Powder Co Ltd set up a gun cotton factory on Uplees Marshes in 1873. By 1915 the site had expanded greatly and was now...

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Jun 15, 20211 min read
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RAF Detling Battle HQ
The Battle HQ was where defences of the airfield would have been controlled from in the event of an attack by ground forces or...

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May 10, 20211 min read
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Hermits Cave
This Hermit Cave in a chalk Grotto was within a Victorian pleasure gardens.

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May 10, 20211 min read
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Service Tunnel
Originally a tram tunnel that was adapted during the World War Two as an air raid shelter for the workers of the cement works. After the...

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Apr 28, 20211 min read
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Air Raid Shelter
This Air Raid Shelter could possibly have been a Munich Era Trench Shelter. It is of two different types of construction, one being a...

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Apr 28, 20211 min read
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Public Air Raid Shelter for 1000
Originally a tunnel excavated through chalk to link two quarries it was converted in WW2 for use as a public air raid shelter. The main...

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Mar 17, 20211 min read
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Chalk Caves
These caves were possibly excavated around 1860. There are three caves in total which are connected by a small tunnel. The excavated...

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Mar 10, 20211 min read
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SB Ena
Ena was constructed in 1906 by W B McLearon at the Navy Yard Slip in Harwich, Essex. She was constructed as a Thames Sailing Barge and...

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Feb 24, 20212 min read
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Untouched Air Raid Shelter
During World War Two this Shelter was constructed within a preexisting tunnel system. It’s purpose was to provide shelter from Air Raids...

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Feb 17, 20211 min read
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B-49 Soviet Submarine
B-49 was laid down on 12 October 1966 at the Sudomekh shipyard in Leningrad. She was launched on 24 December 1966 and commissioned into...

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Feb 10, 20211 min read
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Gun Battery
This Gun Battery was constructed around 1889-1891 for coastal defence. It was designed to blend in with the landscape almost being...

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Feb 3, 20211 min read
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Cable Tunnel
This tunnel was used to run cabling from one quarry to another. It is made from precast concrete sections that are bolted together. The...

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Jan 28, 20211 min read
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Fort Hoo
Built on the recommendations of the 1859 Royal Commission, construction of the Fort started in 1870, completed by 1871 and operational by...

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Jan 13, 20211 min read
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Fortification Guardhouse
This structure was most likely a defendable guardhouse providing access and egress from a fortifications defensive lines. It was possibly...

kentexplorehistory
Dec 30, 20201 min read
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Air Raid Shelter Tunnels
This tunnel system originally began as three separate cave systems that were excavated between the 18th and 19th century. They may have...

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Dec 2, 20201 min read
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Defence Electric Light and Boom Camp
During World War Two a boom was constructed between Kent and Essex on the River Thames. The boom started from the Kent shoreline and had...

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Nov 25, 20201 min read
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WWI German U Boat Wrecks: UB-76 & UB-93
Situated within a creek on the River Medway are the Wrecks of 3 WWI German U Boats. At the end of WWI the Germans surrendered 100 of...

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Nov 18, 20201 min read
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WWI German U Boat Wreck
Situated within a creek on the River Medway are the Wrecks of 3 WWI German U Boats. At the end of WWI the Germans surrendered 100 of...

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Nov 11, 20202 min read
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Explosive Stores
The Thames Storage (Explosives) Company leased the land from the Dean and Chapter of Rochester Cathedral in 1892 with the intention of...

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Oct 21, 20201 min read
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