Strange Tower - Kingshill, Kent

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I took these photos in November 2008 near the Kingshill development in Kent. In the bushes near a roundabout is this building. What is it?

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looks like the same one as this here [ame="http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=11935"]newage report of RAF west malling[/ame]
 
AA tower. I've been there but the fence was nigh-on unclimbable unless you have two people. Seen a report of it on 28DL, there doesn't seem to be an awful lot to it.
 
I'm with Oldscrote on this one - its a water tank base with the tank missing. I dont think I have ever seen an AA tower on any UK airfields. I stand to be corrected of course.
 
Really ? - it must be unique then as I have not seen one anywhere else on an airfield. Usually movement observation would have been from a watch office or control tower.
 
Moylie telling people they're wrong without referencing your "knowledge" renders anything you say meaningless. Particularly when your knowledge is ill informed.

Hydealfred there were a few Bofors AA towers similar to this in existence at one point. There was one at RAF Filton in Bristol for a long time, I'm not sure if it's still there though as I haven't been that way for a while. Concensus seems to suggest this is a bofors tower too:

http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=6196.0
http://www.airfieldinformationexcha...hread.php?831-Bofors-anti-aircraft-gun-towers
 
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well most places on the net say bofor gun or AA tower, either way its different

but here is the link for internal pics and history thanks to kent history forum
 
I need to do a bit more investigation me thinks. :confused: The heavy conscruction seems to point more towards a water tower. Would an AA tower or observation tower require such heavy brickwork ?
 
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