Part of the tunnel network below Ramsgate where people sought safety in WW2 (Picture: SWNS) These images of World War Two tunnels show what life was like for hundreds of families hiding from ...

Most people think of Dover as being the most important town on the front line during World War Two, but nearby Ramsgate also played a significant role in the defence of the UK. Yet many of the ...

It was one of Kent's best kept secrets, but during the Second World War thousands of people took refuge from German bombs in a network of tunnels dug out by hand in the cliffs under Ramsgate.

Ramsgate and the surrounding area had been badly bombed during the First World War and in 1938, with war on the horizon, Borough Engineer RD Brimmell applied to central government to build a vast ...

The trust running Ramsgate Tunnels has unveiled ambitious plans to install a feature recreating life on the coast before the raids of the Second World War. Proposals to recreate life before the ...

A new phase of life, but the war very much in evidence ... throbbed overhead on their way to London (rarely dropping on Ramsgate) V.2 bombs attacked us and neighbouring towns — unannounced.

Little ships returned to Ramsgate after the commemorative cruise to Dunkirk. The boats were marking the 85th anniversary of Operation Dynamo where 338,000 Allied troops were safely evacuated to ...

The anniversary of Operation Fuller - known as the Channel Dash - was marked at the memorial in Ramsgate to the airmen ... convoys vitals for the Allies' war effort and were being repaired at ...

Dozens of little ships have gathered in a Kent harbour for an event marking the 85th anniversary of one of the most important episodes of World War Two ... set off from Ramsgate on Wednesday ...

Lives were saved in Ramsgate during World War Two because people were able to shelter in the tunnel network. It is hoped the tunnels will reopen to the public this summer. Natalie Graham spoke to ...

Lives were saved in Ramsgate during World War Two because people were able to shelter in the tunnel network. It is hoped the tunnels will reopen to the public this summer. Natalie Graham spoke to ...