st margarets

1. The History The town of St.Margaret’s at Cliffe is in located in the English county of Kent. a few miles up the coast from Dover. A short distance to the west of the village is situated the WW2 gun emplacements, underground shelters and battle HQs of the South Foreland battery. On...

Another old set of pics from another visit to Dover in mid January in 2023. Part of the tunnel complex is believed to date back to the 19th century, but the current structure dates from the early part of the Second World War, as the beach and Bay was seen as a likely invasion point by enemies...

St Margaret's Z-Rocket Battery Shelter, Dover - April 2022 Z ROCKET, St. Margarets - Dover, April 2022. Contrary to popular belief...I've been told that this WAS NOT infact a Z Rocket battery... But a 4x 5.5inch Coastal Gun Battery..Apparently. there is no evidence to support it was even...

Great Barr Colony (St Margaret’s Lunatic Asylum) We walked the estate that has a whole bunch of new build houses on it. It took us some time to find as we entered the estate and got lost, eventually being directed the right way. Not much still stands of the Lunatic Asylum (once known as the...

This was the second place we hit up on a jaunt to Dover with my exploring buddies @KHurbanX and her partner. I finally made a trip to their neck of the woods and boy was it a treat! The battery at St Margaret's was one of the earliest to be established in the Dover area. Its four 5.5" guns...

Visited with @Minor History (yoinked from Subbrit) The battery at St Margaret's was one of the earliest to be established in the Dover area. Its four 5.5" guns came were former naval guns, coming from the secondary armament of the battlecruiser HMS Hood, replaced during a refit. They were...

History The battery at St Margaret's was one of the earliest to be established in the Dover area. Its four 5.5" guns came were former naval guns, coming from the secondary armament of the battlecruiser HMS Hood, replaced during a refit. They were thus spared the fate suffered by the Hood itself...

Having seen the report go up from The Wickerman of his and Obscuritys mission to get into this place I thought it was about time i got myself down for a look myself.We had checked it out not long after the event and decided it was more than a little sketchy access wise so backed out ! Fast...

So on Saturday morning I was supposed to be in Dover at 9.30. After a very heavy drinking session on Friday night and climbing in somewhere that I definitely shouldn't have been, and almost didn't get out from, I was woken at 9.45 by silverainbow saying he was going to be a bit late. In my...

hi all visited with Sliverrainbow ( thanks mate :thumb ) great deep shelter, and the pigeons seem to have made it some kind of grave :eek:, here is the history (from UGK) only a little bit as there are plenty of reports on this :D This site was the first one to use the unrotated projectile...

visited with wevsky, troglodyte ,peach, silver rainbow, oliver gt and one flew east a little history... At St Margaret's Bay there is the underground deep shelter for St Margarets 5.5" Battery. This site was the first one to use the unrotated projectile known as the Z - Rocket which was a...

Visited a couple of weeks back on my jack, there were some kids around whose father thanked me for giving them the fright of their lives after I popped my head up into the exit chamber in Plotting room No 2.:D ,Now for a bit of history The four gun, 9.2" battery at South Foreland was...

Visited with Wevsky and Superwide, my 1st underground explore experience, thoroughly enjoyed, bit of history on the site, Situated on the cliffs above St. Margaret's Bay is the site of a four gun, 5.5" battery that was one of the earliest of the protective emplacements that were rapidly...

There have been a fair few reports on these ones so I’ll keep the history brief: Esplanade - Basically two parallel tunnels. The foremost one runs from the esplanade to the other side of the cliff (sheer drop into the briny). It also has a spur which connects if to the gun emplacement...

after getting chased off site at Cabot Carbon by a baseball bat weilding security guard (after only taking about 7 pics) we headed off to the st margarets convent this place from the outside doesnt look much but a new part was built around it in like an L shape and once inside its bloody...