Memorials
Grappling Iron
Biggin Street
Dover
This Grappling Iron is one of many used by the British Sailors
and Royal Marines to hold HMS Vindictive against The Mole during
the Raid on Zeebrugge on the 23rd April 1918.
Made at Chatham Dockyard, it bears the scars it received during
the fierce battle when the Raiding Parties landed in the face of
heavy enemy gunfire at point blank rage.
The Waiting Miner
Marine Parade
Dover
This statue was commissioned by the C.E.G.B. and sited at
Richborough Power Station in 1966. It was relocated to the Marine
Parade, Dover, beside the former Kent National Coal Board and
National Union of Mineworkers offices for Kent, following the
closure of Richborough Power Station in September 1997. The statue
was donated to Dover District Council by Powergen.
World War II Memorial
Waterloo Crescent
Dover
"To commemorate all men and women, both service and Civilians,
who lived, served and died in East Kent.
Frontline Britain
1939 - 1945
This plaque was unveiled by Countess Mountbatten of Burma C.B.E.
CD JP DL 26th September 1994."
Indian Campaigns
Waterloo Crescent
Dover
"In memory of comrades who fell during the Indian Campaigns of
1857, 1858 and 1859."
Erected by the 1st Bataillon 60th Royal Rifles August 1861 and
sited at Waterloo Crescent near the Dover seafront.
Dunkirk memorial
Waterloo Crescent (opposite the Best Western Churchill Hotel)
Dover
Dunkirk Veterans Association East Kent. This memorial was
erected on the 6th August 1975, the 35th anniversary of the battle
of Dunkirk. During the period May 10th to the 1st June 1940 202,306
British, British Commonwealth and allied troops were evacuated to
Dover. The memorial not only pays tribute to the bravery and
discipline of the service men, but the courage of the crews of the
Armada of little ships which assisted, and the people of the port
of Dover who received them.
Mosaic
Marine Parade / Wellesley Road
Dover
Mosaic map showing the routes from Dover to Channel Ports of
Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne. The arms of the old Borough
of Dover show the three ship insignia of the Cinque Ports, a
medieval ship and St.martin, the town's patron saint, giving half
his cloak to a beggar.
Captain Matthew Webb
Marine Parade
Dover
Born in Dawley in 1848, died in Niagara in 1883
Swam from Dover to Calais August, 24th/25th 1875
Erected by public subscription 1910
Statue to the Hon. Chas. S. Rolls
Marine Parade
Dover
(the Rolls of Rolls Royce fame), who flew to Calais and returned
without landing on 2nd June 1910, the first time this has been
accomplished.