DOVER CASTLE
- 14 October 2012 18:34195871Dover castles underground tunnells Dumpy & Casemate will be open to the public from wednesday onward they will guided tours which will last for about thirty minuets,but there is an additional charge of £5 even if you are a member of e.h. or friends of dover castle.
- 14 October 2012 18:45195873Do you just mean DUMPY as Casemate is the 'normal' balcony level ?Been nice knowing you :)
- 14 October 2012 19:39195886The way the chap told me yesterdayit was dumpy.
- 14 October 2012 20:46195901Dumpy I think is the very deep one goes right down to the bottom of the cliffe.
- 14 October 2012 20:57195902Unless you count a well shaft Vic yes it doesn't but DUMPY will well above the bottom of the cliffs !! Only slightly below 50m in fact !!Been nice knowing you :)
- 14 October 2012 21:00195905And to be honest I find DUMPY rather boring actually, rather like wandering around an empty office with no windows !!
The only things interesting is to actually say you have been there and the remains of the BBC studio
Been nice knowing you :) - 14 October 2012 21:00195907There are two levals of Dumpy.
- 14 October 2012 21:15195911Sorry you are mistaken Vic. There are:
Annex - the hospital level
Bastion - apparently started during WW2 but collapsed and abandoned, however any attempts to access any of it has been futile
Casemate - the 'balcony' level
DUMPY - the 'cold war' level
Esplanade - the latter name of the Trevanion/Atholl Terrace public level cave system
Foundation - rumoured but nothing exists
All are one single level other than the connections between them as you can see from the below with DUMPY at the bottom of the plan (but not the cliffs!!)
Been nice knowing you :) - 14 October 2012 22:50195931Absolutely fascinating!Never give up...
- 14 October 2012 22:59195933Is all interesting stuff - a huge amount of stuff at the Castle that the public doesn't generally see !
The guys working on the tunnels have plotted out just under 8km of tunnels and 90 odd shafts of differing types and I am sure there is still more to find....
I'll have a look tomorrow and see if there is anything else I am 'allowed' to post
Been nice knowing you :) - 16 October 2012 10:48196150a fiver for half an hour seems rather steep despite the importance of it n its time.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2012/october/16/secret_tunnels.aspx - 16 October 2012 11:4319615830 minutes will be a very quick walk around !! Rather expensive on top of the £16+ admission...Been nice knowing you :)
- Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,803
16 October 2012 13:42196171The tunnels have just been on the local BBC news item so should be on again this evening.
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- 17 October 2012 11:06196326DUMPY, could it be Deep Underground Military Position Yellow? or could it be named after a piece of engineering equipment - a dumpy level? Whatever it stands for the level was called Dumpy from the very begining when it was built as a combined operations floor following the failure of Bastion (which may or may not be there). As stated on TV last evening, Dumpy was used during the Cuba crisis, as a RSG or Regional Seat of Goverment, many of which were built all around the country.
There are indeed a few more underground complexs under the castle, upper and lower Hudsons, Long Gun Magazine to name but three. I have been into Dumpy more times then I can remember and I agree with Paul Wells, it is boring, it was abandoned halfway through a major refit so little is left to see. £6 for a trip, well, you pay your money and you make your choice, all I can say is that when tours were first mooted (years ago) £20+ was talked about!Phil Wyborn - Brown at www.wybornphotography.co.uk - 17 October 2012 11:25196330I am sure if invested in properly it could make a great Cold War museum and worthy of paying extra to visit, but it is still nice for the public to get a rare opportunity to visit
Last time I was there (I think Simon Thurley Chief Exec of EH was filming) I went down one of the side tunnels for a look around and the door had closed and my torch suddenly died!!! Spend a while feeling my way around to try get back to the light !!!Been nice knowing you :) - 17 October 2012 11:46196337featured on both regional news programmes last evening.
- 17 October 2012 12:13196343Quick update on the Dumpy Level Tours at the castle.
*Running from the 16th to the 31st Oct
* It's the nuclear/3rd Level.
* £5 for tickets
* No pre booking
* Get tickets from tickets office.
* Tours only run twice a day, at 11 and 2.
* Max 20 people per tour.
* Ages 16+ only
* No Disabled access
* No wheel chairs.Been nice knowing you :)
