Defences To Demolition
This section tells the story of how the Dover Corporation bought up around 126 acres of MOD land in the 1960's and how they subsequently and gradually demolished many parts of the Heights including the Garrison Church, Archcliffe Gate, Grand Shaft Barracks, South Front Barracks, Military Hospital, how they filled in of much of the Western Outworks, cut a new road through the North Lines adjacent to the Drop Redoubt, and proposed filling the system of dry ditches with household refuse, all with the intention of developing the area for light industrial use and new housing.
The story is told through the pages of the Dover Express using articles from over a decade of print. These have been rewritten here word for word by kind permission of the Dover Express. All these articles can be seen in Dover Reference Library on microfilm.