I'm surprised that there's no pictures from Dover on here already, as it's absolutely full of places to explore. So for those who havn't seen photos before, here is a selection of pics from some of the deep air raid shelters in Dover.
They all look pretty much the same, some are bigger than others, and they're all in varying states of repair. They were all built in WWII as shelters for various gun emplacements that Dover had. I always get the names muddled up, so if anyone spots an error, please correct me.
Any others that have pics from these places that they'd like to post (I know there's several people that do) please feel free to add them to this thread, saves loads of threads appearing covering the same places, and I know there's a lot of better pics out there than mine!
St Martins Deep Shelter
Long way down
Junction betwen two tunnels where the roof has collapsed. The chalk is blackened because someone obviously thought it was a clever idea to light a fire down there
These are the two I always get muddled up with;
Fan bay deep shelter (I think!)
This section of tunnel is un-lined. Never worked out if it's been dis-mantled or was never finished in the first place.
and some of the tunnel is supported by these dodgey looking wooden props. They seem to still be doing their job thou even after 60 years.
St Margrets Deep shelter (I think!)
You can see the remains of the ventilation system and lighting in this shelter.
There is at least one other Deep shelter, known as the Z-Rocket deep shelter which I've been to, but don't have any pics of unfortunitely. It's still got some of it's lining in place thou.
There's a lot more Dover photos on my photobucket library if anyone fancies a look
Thanks for looking
Maniac.
EDIT: Sorry, forgot to tag it as 'photos' and I can't edit the title now!
They all look pretty much the same, some are bigger than others, and they're all in varying states of repair. They were all built in WWII as shelters for various gun emplacements that Dover had. I always get the names muddled up, so if anyone spots an error, please correct me.
Any others that have pics from these places that they'd like to post (I know there's several people that do) please feel free to add them to this thread, saves loads of threads appearing covering the same places, and I know there's a lot of better pics out there than mine!
St Martins Deep Shelter
Long way down
Junction betwen two tunnels where the roof has collapsed. The chalk is blackened because someone obviously thought it was a clever idea to light a fire down there
These are the two I always get muddled up with;
Fan bay deep shelter (I think!)
This section of tunnel is un-lined. Never worked out if it's been dis-mantled or was never finished in the first place.
and some of the tunnel is supported by these dodgey looking wooden props. They seem to still be doing their job thou even after 60 years.
St Margrets Deep shelter (I think!)
You can see the remains of the ventilation system and lighting in this shelter.
There is at least one other Deep shelter, known as the Z-Rocket deep shelter which I've been to, but don't have any pics of unfortunitely. It's still got some of it's lining in place thou.
There's a lot more Dover photos on my photobucket library if anyone fancies a look
Thanks for looking
Maniac.
EDIT: Sorry, forgot to tag it as 'photos' and I can't edit the title now!
