St. Margaret's Plotting Room #2

This bunker or plotting room is the second of two on Seaview Road, St. Margaret's near Dover and is in a wooded area near the Lighthouse. Access is through a small hole into a surface room and then through a steel hatch and down a steel ladder. The interior is very similar to that of Plotting Room #1. The ventilation ducting is still intact and the filters are still in situ in the ventilation plant room. In fact the condition is almost unchanged from when I visited it back in 1977, except the steel doors are now missing. Getting them up and out through the entrance hatch must have been quite a job. For a plan of South Foreland battery see maps. The pictures below were taken in Jan.2001.

 

Surface part of bunker looking north.

 

View showing access to entrance.

 

Under construction 1941. (PRO 192/199)

Photo courtesy John Vaughan.

 

Steel hatch with ladder leading down into bunker.

 

Looking back up at entrance hatch.

 

Old photo taken in Jan.1977 showing steel doors still in position.

 

View of main room looking at escape tunnel.

 

Looking up at escape hatch from end of tunnel.

 

Ventilation ducts still in place.

 

Ventilation plant in room through door.

 

Filtration? unit in plant room.

 

Another view in the ventilation plant room, actual motors are missing of course.