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The Kent Coast WW2
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Hotels and houses were repeatedly hit under the White Cliffs by the Germans
Folkestone bore the brunt of shelling and air raids, this corner of East Kent came to be known as "Hellfire Corner" due to the ferocity of the attacks. Folkestone suffered huge losses throughout the 1st and 2nd World Wars, with 123 people killed, 778 injured and 550 houses destroyed with 10,000 properties damaged.
The following photos by Walter Carrera
Dover Castle
Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway
Laurel & Hardy reopening the railway after the War
Listening Devices on the Kent Coast
ECHOES FROM THE SKY
At the back of Lade Pit on Romney Marsh are three Listening Devices These sound mirrors were conceived during the First World War when the concept of an air attack became the new danger to national security. They were built between 1928 and 1930 at Denge, near Dungeness as well as at two other sites along the Kent coast, as huge listening devices designed to pick up the sound of approaching planes, but were quickly proved unreliable when they could not discriminate between a passing boat or local traffic, and were then abandoned in favour of radar.
Standing like huge modern sculptures in the otherwise featureless gravel, these structures are beautiful and fascinating, as well as historically important for the critical role they were designed to have defending England. These massive concrete "listening ears" built on the Kent coast between the wars are to be rescued with a £500,000 grant from English Heritage. An additional £125,000 has been secured by local authorities to provide visitors with interpretation as part of the Historic Fortifications Network, a project to promote historic military sites in Kent, Flanders and around Calais.
Photos Janice Carrera
Link to a website with some fantastic WW1 and WW2 photos
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Lympne Hill
Photos Walter Carrera
Water Colour Janine Umbers © Hythe Artist
View of Romney Bay from Shorncliffe Military Cemetery
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