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Here are dates of some of the White Cliff falls in the past which may be of interest. Many are reported in detail in the local papers:
Feb 24 1772 - (reported in Dover Standard 14.12.1872)
1810: East Cliff: John Poole aged 60, many years foreman of ordnance lost his wife and six children in cliff fall which fell on his house. He had left the house for work. Pig found buried some months afterwards, still alive but very thin!
1840 Feb 5 next to Shakespeare Cliff, the fall covered 200 acres - this must be the explosion for the building of the Railway.
1848 Folkestone - part of Copt Point fallen (1000 cubic yards) giving geologists the opportunity for specimens, etc. (back page col.3 Dover Telegraph 8 Apr 1848)
1894 8 Feb 2,000 tons near the Convict Prison.
1896 Oct 30 landslip at the Warren.
1905 Jan 10 Beyond the East Groyne, St Mgts Bay
Jan.1.1912 Abbots Cliff
1927 Dec 26 East Cliff 10 tons
1927 Aug 24 East Cliff 100 tons
Early in 1937 £6,000 damage to Packet Yard
19.3.1937 Warren - (Dover Express 5.3.1937)
1956 March - Old Folkestone Road - query - cut??
Cliff 'Repairs" (see Dover Expresses 18.Aug.1967 (p.1); 1 Sep 1967 (p.1); 10 Nov 1967 (p.1)
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