St Andrew's Church - dover

I have to say I was a little bit disappointed with this church. It felt more like a social gathering than a place of worship. The church itself was nice, but there was also a jumble sale going on. Despite its beauty, the visit was very quick due to the amount of activity happening in the church.

According to the Domesday Book, the church dates back to around 1086, and it is a much-loved ancient parish church.

Esplanade Tunnels - Dover - Revisit

This was our first visit in over - And once we were inside - I forgot how big the site was, This was my second visit so I didn't take many photos this time ( 2019 visit ) can be found here :) , The tunnels have not changed much and are still the same, just a bit more chalk wring on the wall compared to last time.

So it said that the Esplanade tunnels was used in ww2 as a civilian shelter, the tunnels are a big complex that connected trevannion caves, athrol terrance cave together that was once linked by guilford tunnel,  It is  a romoure that these tunnel could open to public one day but it all hearsay.

 

Christ Church air-raid shelter dover

 

Christ Church air-raid 

                                           Date: october 

                                           Location: Dover 

                                           Abandoned or Public : Abandoned 

                                          Delmoished: No

This second exploration of the day was in the Dover area and I have to say it was a pain to get to it as one of the One time only explore due to how awarded it is to get to the tunnels,  once we were on the side, it wasn't that big still a nice little mooch.

So it said it was originally a small air raid shelter that was for a school,  but after the school was demolished it said it would hold up to 180 people.

Abandoned Rife range - Dover

 Rife range - Dover 

Date:  Jan 2023

Location:  Dover

Public or Abandoned:  Abandoned

Demolished:  No

While walking near Sappier hole in Dover, we went on the round brown trail and stumbled across this abandoned rifle range, it was very interesting to see why in the dark so will need to return back in the day, I can't find much on this one as it doesn't seem to have any history on it that i can find, but have to say it very interesting to walk around in the dark. 

North entrance - Dover

 North Entrance Dover 

Date:  September 2022

Location: Dover

Public or Abandoned: Tours

Demolished:  No

Soon as I saw that the north entrance had an open day I booked up the free ticket to see what it was like inside - I had been wording for years about what it is like inside, and it was the one place I had left on my map to do, we arrived in Dover an hour before our tour time was due to start so we had another look around western heights area at the st marting battery and a few other places too, 

We then went down to the north entrance, and wait for our tour - are time come for the tour and we went in, and I have to say it was pretty interesting to see and the fact it been left how it was also interesting to see  as well  

the volunteers did really well on keeping the place light up and also giving very good information on the tour.

So it said online from a number of different sites that north entrance is a good exampled of fornication,  it was used as the main road always up to 1960  from the 1860s when sadly a new road was put in destroying what is there,  The north entrance was used in the wars,  Once the new road was put it they did destroy 2/3 water tanks using them as dumping grounds but ONE of the water tanks are still in place. After the new military road was put the site fell into disrepair and was abandoned.

the site is once a year on a heritage tour.