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Cliff Casemates Balcony, Secret Wartime Tunnels Entrance, Dover Castle, Kent, UK.
Casemates Balcony, located 50 feet or so below the cliff-top, is where Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Field Marshall Jan Smuts (alt. Field Marshal) were photographed during World War II.
The cliff tunnels the balcony gives access to are much older, of course, and were begun in 1797 by Colonel William Twiss, the Commanding Engineer of the Southern District, as part of his brief to improve the town's defences during the Napoleonic Wars with France.
The first troops were accommodated in 1803, and at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the tunnels housed more than 2,000 men: to date they are the only underground barracks ever built in Britain.
More information at:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/49675375
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