Western Heights Preservation Society
Our next workday at the Western Heights will be held on Sunday 16th August from 10:30 to 16:00. Work will take place across various parts of the site and we will also be preparing the North Entrance site ahead of the upcoming Dover Heritage Open Days event next month. If you’d like to volunteer with […]
Thanks to all volunteers who came to the WHPS July workday. Tasks completed by volunteers included: – Clearance of overgrowth at the top of the Grand Shaft – Sweeping of the stairs and entrance to the Grand Shaft – Weeding and tidying at the Grand Shaft and the Drop Redoubt Thanks also to regular WHPS […]
Thanks to all who came and took part at our annual Open Weekend from 20th to 21st June, whether members of the public, families and children, volunteers or re-enactors. It was a splendid weekend with high engagement, good weather and lots of fun. We at WHPS look forward to doing it again next year. Thank […]
** THIS WEEKEND ~ 20th to 21st JUNE** The Drop Redoubt fort is OPEN this weekend for our annual summer Open Weekend event! The Western Heights Preservation Society are pleased to be able to invite you to their only public open weekend of 2026 at the Drop Redoubt on Dover’s Western Heights on Saturday 20th […]
Thanks to all volunteers who helped on the very productive May 17th workday at our fabulous Drop Redoubt fort! Tasks accomplished included: – Moving rubble in Caponier 4 in preparation for new flooring – Painting the wooden parts of the casemates – Painting the crowd barriers – Mowing, strimming and weeding the Drop Redoubt site […]
Bat Walk around the Drop Redoubt fort on Friday 22nd May 20:30 – 22:00 BOOKING REQUIRED! WHPS are happy to be hosting our 3rd evening bat walk event, in collaboration with our friends Claire and Toby Munn of South East Ecology and Lauren Baker of White Cliffs Countryside Partnership. These are popular events and numbers […]
Sunday 19th April saw our return to the inside of the Drop Redoubt fort and our first tours of 2026. Thanks to all who came and also for the generous donations on the day! As a volunteer organisation and charity we really do rely on your support to keep these tours running and to look […]
Today at The Grand Shaft we hosted guest performers Tom White and friends of Sound Emergence, who entertained a crowd of visitors with an atmospheric soundscape designed to relax and enrich the spirit. Visitors were encouraged to sit on or walk around the Shaft’s three spiral staircases while enjoying the sounds and feelings of the […]
Today we welcomed back a team of engineering students from East Kent College. As with their previous volunteering day in November 2025, the students did a good job of sweeping the Grand Shaft staircases, collecting litter, and weeding the paths and cobbles. A small team of WHPS volunteers were also present, mowing the grass and […]
In addition to our workday, on Sunday 15th March the Grand Shaft staircase and shop will be reopening for 2026. It will be open for visitors between 10am and 4pm. It will then be open again on the 3rd sunday of every month throughout the year and/or as part of other events – see our […]