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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 576 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Dover Convict and Military Prison - Workshops and Engine house |
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Summary
Dover Convict and Military Prison - Workshops and engine house. These structures are visible on aerial photography dated to 1942 and 1945. The main building has been removed as of 1962, and as of 2002 the area is being used as a car park.
| Grid Reference: | TR 3374 4222 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | ST MARGARET’S AT CLIFFE, DOVER, KENT |
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Full description
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Originally built as part of the Military Prison, the workshops were a rectangular building 20m long by 4m wide. Remains of the quarry tile floor still survives in places. Traces of the brick walls still occur along the southern elevation to a height of 0.5m. These appear to have then been converted to an engine house for the electric lights on the eastern arm c.1912-1914. It comprised an accumulator room, engine room and oil store with two cooling tanks to the north side.(1)
These structures are visible on aerial photography dated to 1942 (2) and 1945 (3) . The main building has been removed as of 1962 (4) and as of 2002 the area is been used as a car park (5).
<1> Nicola Bannister, 1999, Langdon Cliffs Survey (Unpublished document). SKE6595.
<5> Google Earth, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 16-FEB-2002 ACCESSED 31-AUG-2010 (Graphic material). SWX15704.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Nicola Bannister. 1999. Langdon Cliffs Survey. |
| <5> | Graphic material: Google Earth. EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 16-FEB-2002 ACCESSED 31-AUG-2010. |
