White Cliffs Underground
Old Folkestone Road Bunker
The
photos on this page are of a bunker (plotting room) sunk into the hillside
on the opposite side of the valley a couple of hundred yards south of
the Magazine in the Old Folkestone
Road. The plotting room was in remarkably good condition and the interior
fittings were mostly still in place at this time. This bunker appears
to have been buried or destroyed during the construction of the new M20-A20
Folkestone to Dover link road. There is now no trace of the site. A large
section of the Old Folkestone Rd. has completely vanished. The photos
were taken in Dec.1977.
For a plan of the Hougham Battery and cliff top emplacements courtesy
of Duncan Forrester click here.
View of entrance to bunker in other side of valley due south of ammo store.
Entrance passage leading into hillside.
Corridor inside bunker.
View small room, note light shade still on ceiling and steel roof beams.
Another view through doorway, note coat hooks on wall.
'Tunnel Rats' pose for photo!
View showing steel door to 'escape tunnel'.
View into 'escape tunnel'.
View looking back along tunnel.
View up ladder shaft at end of tunnel, to steel hatch cover.
