Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Must have made quite a noise when it came down, also must be dangerous for walkers close to the edge. The whiteness is impressive.
Roger
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A faint crumple, I suspect.
[theory #1]
A section at the base more or less falls forward, leaving a shallow shelf which seems to have fallen away to an ever shallower degree as it went up. The upper section, having the whole height to fall, has come to rest as little more than dust. (?)
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Terrific pictures there Helen and Phil. Excellent. Well done with those..they really help out with the wider picture as it were. Will link through from the frontpage. A large fall and clearly seen now.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Excellent front page photo shows the explosives placed on the joints of the sections...straight splits.......do not know
when they were built but in my day the average thickness of walls was only four inches......never built for long term
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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The pile of fallen chalk is considerably higher today, must have been a further fall.
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Guest 742- Registered: 9 Feb 2012
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We ran a trip out there today (Dover Sea Safari) for the National Trust. Meridan News are out with us tomorrow. Here are some pics taken today. It is huge, estimated 100,000T
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thanks James - good photos there.
100,000 tons ? Wow !
Roger
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The photos have been fantastic...I am somewhat relieved as time goes by the fall seems to be further and further out of town. The sense of scale is a little mystifying for we out-of-town-ers too.
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Well done James. Great stuff there. I've added an extra pic to the frontpage too, not a different view but different lighting conditions....might as well put another one here. Taken late evening, shows the cliff catching a glimpse of the dying sun. It glowed...tried to capture some of the glow.
ps: Meridian News probably saw it all on here. Avid followers, as are the BBC.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Paul, do you have any before pics taken of the same view in your archive? It would be interesting to see a before and after comparison.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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no.29 has a certain haunting quality
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Yes indeed Howard just as the sun went down it produced a haunting glow.
Yes good idea Ray I hadnt thought of that. The problem is as the cliffs are always there you tend not to photograph them unless something happens, the novelty here is the Chinook helicopter flying low over them. I'm sure I have others...but finding them..!!
but try this one of the Chinook and you can see the different shape to the Cliffs previously..
Interesting in that it appears to be all the section with the heavy scrub on it that came down. Experts tend to tell us that its the scrub that keeps it all in place...on the other hand pondering... it could be the weight of the scrub that pulls it all down..gravity n all that.
Keith Sansum1
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on my walks across the cliffs to st margarets you can see how much of the cliffs have eroded quite dangerous in places
but if you go close more fool you!!
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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A few weeks ago we went on an organised walk from Samphire Hoe along the top of Shakespeare Cliff - there are some very dodgy looking bits quite close to the path along there.
Thanks for the photo Paul, using the red builing as a marker it's easy to see how much has come down.
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Here is a better one for you Ray..Ive had a further trawl back and found this one. I will reproduce the old picture first then add the new picture again right next to it so people can easily see the difference.
Just to add that in the top picture on this post you can see people right on the tip top edge again. You can see it clearer in the larger version of this, with the further group of people as shown, right out on a limb.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Thanks Paul, near perfect match and shows well what a big fall it was- and before the towers' demoltion or you can be sure someone would be asking if that was to blame!
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Well Done PaulB, it must have taken some time to find the right angle for that section of the White Cliffs, now we can all see the enormity of the cliff fall, chalk anyone
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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one of our newer members played a starring role on meridian tonight earlier.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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Crumbs some really dramatic pictures there certianly would have been pretty scarey, if you were up on the cliffs at the time.
Guest 742- Registered: 9 Feb 2012
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Thanks Howard for that exposure! Thought I'd gotton away with out being seen!! A very amusing bit of filming as the cameraman and presenter weren't exactly keen on having to come out on a boat!
Fantastic comparison of before and after pictures posted from PaulB
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