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Observation minefield control tower. An observation minefield was one where the underwater explosive charges were triggered electrically and remotely by human control. They would normally be used in situations where friendly vessels would be allowed access once they had been satisfactorily identified, but enemy vessels would potentially be targets. I remember my Father taking me up to the top of this tower in the early 1960's - I would have been 9 or 10 at the time.
See KENT’S TWENTIETH-CENTURY MILITARY AND
CIVIL DEFENCES. PART 2 – MEDWAY, By Victor T.C. Smith, pages 179 and 180 (Archaeologia Cantiana - Vol. 131 2011)
http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/131-2011/131-09.pdf '