South Foreland Battery, Dover
During World War 2 the Nazis placed a number of large guns on the French
coast with the mission to bombard the English Coast, namely Dover. This
spiralled into a duel between the British gunners and the German gunners with a
number of new batteries being built on cliffs at Dover.
One such battery was the South Foreland Battery which had four 9.2" guns
installed; each with a range of 30,000 yards. Many of the surface features
have been demolished and the guns long since removed, however the Deep Shelters,
underground plotting rooms and the ammo bunkers still exists.
The deep shelters were constructed to offer protection for the gun crews when
they were under attack. The two plotting rooms were used to target to guns
and were both manned by a staff of twenty five personnel. The ammo bunkers
were buried deep into the cliff tops to offer protection to them from
bombardment; they were heavily encased in concrete.