Teatime Talks - Dover's Lost Architecture - Some Lost Western Heights Buildings
Market Square, Dover, Kent, CT16 1PH
Dover’s “Western Heights” is well known as a fortress, with gun emplacements, magazines, ditches, and inevitably, “secret underground tunnels”! However, it was also home to a community of up to four thousand soldiers, civilians, women and children.
In this talk, I shall be describing some of the domestic buildings that existed within the Western Heights, focusing especially on the second half of the 19th century, and describing what life was like for those inhabitants. Although hardly any of these buildings now exist, I hope to explain how every facility that the community living here could possibly need was provided for. Along the way, I shall, hopefully, dispel a few myths and legends, too!
The talk will be illustrated with plenty of photographs and drawings of those lost buildings, including images of my own miniature recreation of some of them.
Timings & Tours
- Tuesday 16 September:
- 1800-1900
Location & directions
Market Square, Dover, Kent, CT16 1PH
- Directions:
- Dover Museum Community Cinema Gaol Lane
- Contact on day:
- Paul Wells
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Pre-booking required
- Booking conditions:
- Booking will go live on Monday 24th August 2025 - https://DSTalk2.eventbrite.com
- Booking contact name:
- Paul Wells
- Booking website:
- https://DSTalk2.eventbrite.com
- Booking opens:
- 25 Aug 2025 12:00 AM
- Booking closes:
- 15 Sep 2025 12:00 AM
Additional information
- Max no of people per tour:
- 75
- Est. tour duration:
- 1 hour(s)
