Western Heights Preservation Society
The Western Heights Preservation Society are pleased to be able to open the Noirth Entrance and the Grand Shaft staircase again this year as part of the Heritage Open Weekend on Sat 8th & Sun 9th September 2018. This unique structure is rarely open to the public and is a fascinating insight into the defences […]
The BBC have just spent two days filming a documentary of ‘The Lost Commando Raid’ at the Drop Redoubt, Dover. This is the story of Operation Abercrombie, a raid led by Lord Lovatt on the French Town of Hardelot in 1942. The idea for the documentary was inspired by Phil Eyden’s book entitled ‘Dover’s Forgotten […]
On Saturday 28th July 2018 we hosted an open evening of the Drop Redoubt fort and Grand Shaft staircase as part of the Big Summer festival event around Dover. We welcomed approximately 200+ visitors
So the June workday arrived and damn it was hot!! We therefore chose this day to do a mass movement of timber from the sally port gun rooms to the main magazine, coupled with some heavy duty turf clearance from the gun emplacements on the top of the fort! I was getting slightly nervous beforehand […]