Defending Chatham 1939-1941
Kent Defence Research Group, 2024. Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Reviews: Northfleet’s Forgotten Tunnels - Henley’s Second World War Industrial Air-raid Shelters
Rod LeGear, 2024, Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 145. Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
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The Cold War Bunker at Gravesend: Origins and heritage development
Victor Smith FSA, KAS Magazine, Issue 122 (Summer 2024). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Henley’s Second World War Industrial Air-raid Shelters
Victor Smith explores Henley’s Second World War Industrial air-raid shelters.
WW2 Decoy Airfield at Lullingstone
Paul Tritton, 2023, KAS Magazine, Issue 120 (Summer 2023). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
WWII Discovery: A Secret No More
David Steed, 2023, KAS Magazine, Issue 120 (Summer 2023). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
The Tudor Gravesend Blockhouse Restabilised
Victor Smith, 2022, KAS Magazine, Issue 119 (Winter 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Hollingbourne Zero Station
Keith Gulvin, 2022, KAS Magazine, Issue 119 (Winter 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Something at the end of the Garden
Victor Smith, 2022, KAS Magazine, Issue 119 (Winter 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Kent Defence Research Group (Special Interest Group) - Update
Clive Holden, 2022, KAS Magazine, Issue 119 (Winter 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Discovering Kent’s wartime airfields that never were
Paul Tritton, 2022, KAS Magazine, Issue 117 (New Year 2022). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Kent Defences Archive Reports available on the Society website
Victor Smith has very kindly supplied scans of a number of reports, now made available on thee Society website.
Capel Battery Project
Chris Harman of the Capel Battery Preservation Group provides an update on a project to restore the remnants of the structures at Capel on the north of the Weald.
Surviving Doomsday?: The Cold War Bunker at Gravesend
Victor Smith, 2021, KAS Magazine, Issue 116 (Summer 2021). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Moir Pillbox discovered at Botany Bay
Paul Tritton, 2023, KAS Magazine, Issue 120 (Summer 2023). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Centre for Experimental Military Archaeology at Detling
David Flintham, 2021, KAS Magazine, Issue 116 (Summer 2021). Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
Kent’s twentieth-century Military and Civil defences. Part 5 – Swale
Victor T. C. Smith and Alan Anstee, 2021, Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 142. Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
A Roman military discovery in Gravesend?
Recently published findings from the excavations of the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit in Gravesend in 1989 draw attention to the discovery of a riverside Romano-British settlement over an area of at least 5 acres, a road extending inland, and a possible Roman military site.
Could Hitler have captured ‘Tonbridge Fortress’? How a market town prepared to confront a Nazi invasion during Britain’s darkest hour
Paul Tritton of the Kent Defence Research Group, 2020, Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society.
‘Fortress Maidstone’ by Clive Holden now available on Society website
Clive Holden’s report is the culmination of his two years research into the military history of Maidstone in the Second World War and the plans for its defence.
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