Guest 643- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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6 January 2010
00:1736478#1
I've been picking up and dropping off children at the bus stop outside St Edmunds school for over three years now. Today I noticed something I've never noticed before - in the wall under the raised playground at Charlton school there's a door. Does anyone know what, if anything, this leads to? I know Dover has a lot of underground tunnels and rooms and wondered if this was one of them. I was interested a while ago whilst browsing on Youtube to find a video of rooms underneath Churchills in London Road discovered while building work was taking place. This town of ours has many secrets.
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Terry Nunn
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6 January 2010
08:0236482#2
When I was at Charlton Jacqui (from 1950!) it was used as a store. I've no idea how big it is though.
Terry
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Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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6 January 2010
12:0636504#3
Jacqui
I think you will find that it is war time tunnel
Sheila
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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6 January 2010
13:2936514#4
I must tell you this and it is true it was a gents only looe.Way back in the 1950and 1960. I did go in there at times.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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6 January 2010
15:3136526#5
I must tell you this and it is true, it is a WW2 air raid shelter in Barton Road - I don't really like what this forum does, but here is a link to a plan/photos
http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=1683.0Been nice knowing you :)
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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6 January 2010
16:4236543#6
I think you must be confusing that with London Road Vic. To my knowledge it never was a "watering hole".
I have a memento from that one and will post in a couple of minutes.
Terry
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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6 January 2010
16:5636545#7
Here is what was the London Road "Gents" now bricked up.
I have a picture somewhere in it's heyday with a DBC notice board between the two entrances.
This is my treasure.
Terry
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Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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6 January 2010
17:0336547#8
sorry put this on wrong subject, The doorway underneath Charlton School is wartime tunnel not toilets on London Rd
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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6 January 2010
17:1036550#9
I know Sheila, I just thought that Vic was getting confused due to old age, like me.
Terry
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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6 January 2010
17:1936551#10
No Terry I did know about the one in london rd ,But I do still think that there was one underneath Charlton School,Sheila is saying I am wrong on that one, maybe I just used it as one
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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6 January 2010
20:0236589#11
loved that sign terry, reminds me of the comedians that would right something small high up on the tiles above the urinals.
it usually said "whilst you are trying to read this you are p*****g on your shoes".
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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7 January 2010
08:5736655#12
Yes Howard, and then there's the matter of the goldfish in the glass cisterns in the gents in High Holborn!
Terry
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