Myself and a local friend Jake thought we'd try and find something new in Dover, as I'm sure many of you are aware everyone always says "There is nothing left doable in Dover". With this in our minds, we decided to do some leg work ourselves and actually research unlike following like sheep into every tunnel in Dover as most explorers do. So late December 2020 we researched and we discovered a local WW2 cut and cover school shelter, we looked at possible routes in and found a perfect wall to jump over to gain access to the school grounds. However, now that we were in the school grounds, we had to be careful and mindful of setting any floodlights as the school is very overlooked. We thought there was a caretaker as we had previously noticed a house adjacent that seemed to have a tv on which was within the school's fence line.
According to the research we had obtained we knew the shelter was a fairly decent size as it stated that it could accommodate 285 people. Once we were inside it seemed much bigger than we first expected, so I'm not sure if they expanded it at a later date. Most of the entrances are now used by the school groundsman for their equipment as the entrances are conveniently placed, from memory I believe there were 4 or 5 entrances. Some of the walls contain mathematics equations that were nice to see 80 years on. Overall, it is just a cut and cover tunnel, but it's nice to be able to say you've done it. Many people come to visit Dover and do the tourist places which are trashed, to do something different for a change is refreshing.
Here are a few of my photos unfortunately taken with my phone as I didn't have a DSLR which I have now thankfully do to take better photos. I couldn't be bothered to go back to take photos with the DSLR so phone photos will have to do I'm afraid.
According to the research we had obtained we knew the shelter was a fairly decent size as it stated that it could accommodate 285 people. Once we were inside it seemed much bigger than we first expected, so I'm not sure if they expanded it at a later date. Most of the entrances are now used by the school groundsman for their equipment as the entrances are conveniently placed, from memory I believe there were 4 or 5 entrances. Some of the walls contain mathematics equations that were nice to see 80 years on. Overall, it is just a cut and cover tunnel, but it's nice to be able to say you've done it. Many people come to visit Dover and do the tourist places which are trashed, to do something different for a change is refreshing.
Here are a few of my photos unfortunately taken with my phone as I didn't have a DSLR which I have now thankfully do to take better photos. I couldn't be bothered to go back to take photos with the DSLR so phone photos will have to do I'm afraid.
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