September 26, 2017

St Margaret's Bay deep shelter ( Z-rocket) - Dover

St Margaret's Bay Deep shelter ( Z -Rocket )


Date : 25-09-2017 
Location : Dover 
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  History : http://www.subbrit.org.uk/db/1449184840.html
" The battery was manned by four officers and 165 men of the 411 Bty Coast Defence, and to provide protection a deep shelter was dug for them by the Royal Engineers 171 Tunnelling Company . 
which are linked by four short cross tunnels one of which is wider to allow it to be used as a medical station.  
The gun battery was removed during the infamous Operation Eyesore in the 1970s "






















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