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  I have never been to Samphire Hoe but I have seen it from the train and it looks very nice. I worked there for three years and three months from 1990 when it was one of the biggest construction sites in the country, what a mess. It was full of workshops, marshalling yards and massive Demag cranes unloading the segments which went to make the Channel tunnel. We had to dodge JCB's, dumper trucks and every vehicle imaginable as well as miniature locos.
  
  Everything that went to construct the tunnel was unloaded there and transported down below through an adit by small locomotives. There were railway lines everywhere. All the spoil from the tunnel came out there on conveyor belts and was dropped from a great height into lagoons. When it was blowing a gale everything was covered in a thick layer of chalk.
  
  It was a hell of a place to work but the money was good, that's why I stuck it until I was made redundant. 12 hour shifts, night and day, weekends included.
  
  It is amazing to see it now, what a transformation.
  
  Terrismark worked down there as well, she will confirm what I said about the chalk dust that used to fly about. (Terry worked in a site office but still had to walk through all mud and c--p to get there.)

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