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Report - South Forelands Deep Shelter - Dover - 2016

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UrbanZ

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Visited with @Minor and @Dora Grew Up

History:
The Regimental Headquarters of 540 Coast Regiment Royal Artillery was mainly based in wartime surface buildings adjacent to South Foreland Lighthouse. Staff slept in the Lower Lighthouse, and there was an underground Plotting Room as well as a deep shelter for RHQ staff nearby.

540 Coast Regiment was in charge of the guns to the east of Dover (Fan Bay, Wanstone Farm and South Foreland Batteries), while 520 Coastal Regiment manned the guns to the west of Dover (Capel, Lydden Spout, Hougham and Citadel batteries). When either the east or west guns acted collectively they were designated as a Fortress and had, at South Foreland and Hougham respectively, a Fortress Plotting Room which controlled their complement of guns. Hougham’s was combined with the Battery Plotting Room which is the reason for its larger size, while at South Foreland the two Plotting Rooms were several hundred metres apart.

The deep shelter is one of the smallest and most symmetrical comprising two parallel tunnels with three cross tunnels between, accessed by two entrances and sets of stairs

The Explore:
We traipsed around for ages looking for the entrance to this place and must have walked past it about 4 times, on the up side did find a London underground high vis :thumb(might come in useful in the future), Dora got sent a few instructions and we were in.

on to the pics

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thanks for looking
 

Wevsky

A Predisposed Tourist
Regular User
This is number 1 shelter mate and a pretty decent one at that! Did you call the keyholder to come let you in :p
 
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