This deep shelter sunk into the chalk above Langdon Bay just to the east of Dover had two entrances about a hundred yards apart in a bank by a rough track well back from the cliff edge (the cutting for the railway line that used to run down to Dover Harbour many years ago). The photos were taken in Nov.1977 before the brick built entrance was flattened and both entrances completely covered with earth. There are no signs of the entrances today. After squeezing through a small hole in the main entrance a long flight of steps led deep down into the chalk then into a quite large, for this type of shelter, series of rooms. The roofs/walls were the usual galvanized wriggley sheet metal, but with quite a lot of brick work. In one section where the chalk was exposed an inscription, 'M. Tutt Dec 1944', had been cut quite deeply into the chalk. The steps leading out of the secondary (eastern) entrance were largely missing leaving a steeply sloping chalk floor leading back to the surface. For a map of the Langdon Bay area click here.

 

Plan of Deep Shelter courtesy of John Vaughan. Full size plan here.

 

View of same cutting today, Jan.2001, no traces of the two entrances remain.

 

Western entrance to deep shelter.

 

Closer view of western entrance.

 

View just inside main entrance of deep shelter.

 

View looking back up wooden stairs.

 

Room at bottom level of deep shelter.

 

Another of the rooms separated by internal brick walls.

 

Room with air ventilation nozzles, note wriggley tin shell exposed where original

lining material (still in situ on left of picture) has been removed.

 

Another view of one of the large rooms.

 

Another room.

 

View up towards the secondary entrance, missing steps have left a steep chalk slope.

 

Close up of eastern entrance.