RAMSGATE’S TUNNELS SAVED HUNDREDS.—The three and a half miles of tunnels, seventy feet deep, cut through Ramsgate s chalk foundation just before war began, at a cost of £60,000, have certainly proved their worth. The tunnels can hold 60,000 and during recent raids when German aircraft poured tons of nig' l cxf plosive and incendiary bombs on the town, and when hundreds of houses were destroyed or made uninhabitable, no doubt hundreds of lives were saved in these tunnels.
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Evening Star, Issue 23718, 28 October 1940, Page 7
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79RAMSGATE’S TUNNELS SAVED HUNDREDS.—The three and a half miles of tunnels, seventy feet deep, cut through Ramsgate s chalk foundation just before war began, at a cost of £60,000, have certainly proved their worth. The tunnels can hold 60,000 and during recent raids when German aircraft poured tons of nig'l cxf plosive and incendiary bombs on the town, and when hundreds of houses were destroyed or made uninhabitable, no doubt hundreds of lives were saved in these tunnels. Evening Star, Issue 23718, 28 October 1940, Page 7
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