St Clements Caves

I don't obviously don't remember, as I was only a baby at the time, but I sometimes slept here during the war.

I slept in the caves when I came back from evacuation with Cavendish Place Infants school.I do remember it being quite strict with bed times for our different ages and being given a sweet or two according to your age.

Yes the caves slept there 2nd world war my gran too old to evacuate so I stayed in caves with her I can remember collecting shell cases up for soldiers on west hill as they shot planes as they crossed the sea and the doodlebugs used to fly past very scarey but we serviced ?

It would have been about 1971-72 but I remember being taken there by my dad on New Years Day and having a tour by candlelight. It is so vivid. My brother was a toddler and he was on my dad's shoulders before we went in. We were the only people on the tour and halfway round the guide blee his candle out so we could stand there, and I had never experienced total darkness before. It is imprinted on my memory like it was yesterday.