Reports - Kent
Dover Cliffs
Where? Dover, Kent. Photos 25. Comments 1. Posted 9 August 2007.
Deep within the White Cliffs of Dover are quite a few military tunnels, bunkers, rooms, shelters etc. Had a little group visit to see some of them recently. Thanks to everyone involved in organising a fantastic, if a little dirty, day out! 
I don't really know about the places visited so the descriptions are brief - sorry!
Leybourne Grange Hospital
Where? Maidstone, Kent. Photos 62. Comments 44. Posted 11 November 2006.
Leybourne Grange is located right beside the M20 near Maidstone. That said, you wouldn't know it's there - it covers around 270 acres and is very tree-based. The trees (and fresh air etc) were meant to be good for the patients. 1200 patients.
It opened in 1936, was used for sixty years, and finally closed in 1996. There is a private school on the site which is still in use. The colony was built in the grounds of a huge manor house which still remains. The manor house also has an impressive clock tower.
A lot of the buildings are very well boarded up, but we managed to look in a few
Littlebrook B Power Station
Where? Dartford. Photos 20. Comments 1. Posted 7 June 2007.
There has been a power station at Littlebrook since 1939. "A" and "B" closed in the 1970s with "C" in the 1980s. "D" soldiers on, but as a reserve station running on gas.
We visited "B". Post-closure history is sketchy, but it was taken over by the British Nuclear Group who used it to test robots on life-sized replicas of nuclear cores. Yeah! It closed down in 2006.
I think this has taken NGTE's crown as "explore of the year". After a long, hot day of five non-explores, we decided to check this out.
