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World War I
SHELTERS IN DOVER
World War II
Shelters
On 5 November
1917, the Air-Raid Shelters subcommittee reported that the
following public shelters had been or were being provided, and
that when completed they would be able to shelter 25,000 people.
At that date £1,500 had been spent in constructing shelters
| Pier Infants' School |
Viaduct Arch |
Viaduct Spur |
| Caves at Oil Mill Barracks |
Grand Shaft |
Guard Room, North Military Road |
| Sailors' and Soldiers' Home |
Snargate Street |
Finiss's Hill |
| Leney's Brewery |
Leney's Mineral Water Factory |
Navy and Army Canteen Stores |
| Trevanion Caves |
R E Caves |
Bussey's Caves |
| Police Staton |
School of Art |
Town Hall Crypt (part) |
| Pepper's Cave |
Connaught Park |
Jam Stores, Bridge Street |
| County School for Boys |
Crabble Railway Arch |
Sanitary Stem Laundry |
| Mannering's Mill |
Bradley's Stores |
Lloyd's Bank |
| Archcliffe Fort |
Army Pay Corps Offices, Buckland |
Mr Wakefield's, Chapel Hill |
| Dover Priory (2) |
Palmer's Carriage Works |
Dover Engineering Works |
| Burlington Hotel |
Beaufoy's Cave |
Military Hill (near Christchurch) |
| Military Hill (back of Clarendon Place (2) |
Markland Road |
Widred Road |
| Chapel Hill |
Tower Hamlets Chalk Pit |
St Radigund's Road |
| Co-operative Stores, River |
Maxton Brewery (2) |
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The subcommittee recommended that
further shelters be constructed, and that appeals should
be made for voluntary labour:
| Top of Belgrave Road |
Glenfield Road |
Grace Terrace, Heathfield Avenue |
| West Mount, Dover College Junior School |
Bunker's Hill |
Clarendon Place (short street, about half way along |
| Top of Astley Avenue |
The dug-out adjoining the Army Pay
Corps, Buckland, for use at night |
Meanwhile,
kerbs, posts, trees (around 350), etc were being whitened to
assist visibility in the black-out.The cost to 5 November 1917
amounted to £11 0s 8d
Notes:
Trevanion Street - following a petition by residents that chairs
should be lent to them for use when sheltering in the caves, the
Town Council resolved on 30 May 1916 that 50 chairs would be
provided.
Mr T Grimer lent the caves for the purposes of shelter. On 28
September 1916, the Council heard that the lessee of the caves
had offered to surrender his lease to the Council, as he was
unwilling to take responsibility of supervising the use of the
caves during raids. It was recommended that a member of the
police force should be in attendance on those occasions.
Bussey's Caves -
on request by Alderman Bussey, the Council was resolved on 30
May 1916 that 25 chairs should be lent to people taking shelter
in the caves belonging to Messrs J W Bussey and Co.
On 5 November it
was recommended that notices be placed in the shelters
warning persons not to drink, smoke, or use bad language
extracts from the Dover Town Council Minutes
with thanks to Jon Iveson
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