Shorts Brothers
Seaplane Factory and public air raid shelter, Also Know as Blaw Knox
Tunnels Medway Area
These tunnels were constructed as an
extension to the existing factory in 1941. Building above ground was
considered imprudent due to the vulnerability of the Medway estuary to
air attacks. The two tunnels that housed the factory workshop area
were both 100m long, and were linked by four traversing tunnels of
slightly shorter length. The Shorts Brothers also constructed a large
system of air raid shelter tunnels, which comprised of two main
tunnels some 300m long, traversed by 14 smaller connecting tunnels.
The shelter tunnel complex was connected to the factory complex via a
single tunnel approximately 400m long.
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Access is not possible, this is
on private land.