KT · Field index

Kent

9 sites on file.

KT-01 · Kent

Royal Naval barracks, 1897–1984

The Chatham naval barracks that suffered a devastating WWI air raid, with tunnels beneath believed to have sheltered survivors.

KT-02 · Kent

Naval fuel storage

Five vast fuel tanks cut into the cliffs above Dover Docks to keep the Navy's oil supply safe from air attack.

KT-03 · Kent

Early 20th century - present

Brick-built cellars beneath Hythe that once served the brewery behind Mackeson Stout, still used for storage today.

KT-04 · Kent

World War II - Coastal deep shelter

A deep chalk-cut shelter built to protect the gun crews of the Fan Bay Battery, with wartime tunnels leading to First World War sound mirrors.

KT-05 · Kent

Napoleonic-era fortification

Two linked bastions built into Dover's Western Heights to guard against invasion from the north, now abandoned and overgrown.

KT-06 · Kent

20th century, chalk-cut storage tunnels

The central section of a three-part chalk tunnel complex behind Snargate Street, Dover - still in occasional working use today.

KT-07 · Kent

World War II, Public air raid shelter

Four separate wartime shelters lying beneath a quiet green space in Sittingbourne, each once holding around fifty people.

KT-08 · Kent

Wartime shelter extension, 1940s

The eastern arm of Dover's Snargate Street shelter network, badly damaged by a direct hit in 1944 and unsafe ever since.

KT-09 · Kent

Early 19th century, chalk-cut vaults

The western section of Dover's Snargate Street tunnel complex