Devastatingly, Folkestone Harbour Station is at grave risk and the Remembrance Line Association is fighting a gallant rear guard action to save it.
Folkestone Harbour Company in collusion with Network Rail,Shepway District council and Kent County Council will flatten the harbour station if the Office of the Rail Regulator grants them closure ratification in July. Their demolition contractors with itchy fingers are waiting for the moment of confirmation,all in the cause of making us wait 25years to have a vanity seafront development imposed upon us. Folkestone Harbour Station is the most important WW1 heritage remembrance site in the UK. Clearly, this could be the most overt act of heritage vandalism that Folkestone and the whole country has ever witnessed. Folkestone Harbour Station was the last piece of England seen by millions of soldiers as they set off for the Western Front... and whats more all this wanton destruction would be taking place in the 100th anniversary year of the commencement of the Great War. What a base insult to those who paid the ultimate price for King and Country. Sleep easy if you can, Folkestone Harbour Company- the world is watching you in your house of bamboo-are you really prepared to bulldose the hearts,minds and memories of millions across the world at the time of this overwhelmingly poignant centenary?
http://www.theremembranceline.org.uk/