Shell Grotto

[RowBot]

Sorry to say but i've never been to the grotto and here is the first time i've even heard about it but hopefully you can all (probally Sarah) fill me in with info about the grotto (location, what it's about, what we/i can do there).
Thankz alot Ian

[Vince, Charlie and Sam]

There's a bit about it here http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southeas ... tory.shtml and there's a bit more to be found by Googling but it's well worth a visit, as is Margate Caves which is a few hundred yards away.


Vince

[RowBot]

Thankz Vince,
Went googling and there seems to be alot of information about it all and I have kinda figured out why it's called Shell Grotto . Can't believe I've lived down here for so long and never even heard of it but then again I was born up in Hastings so surpose I will use that as an excuse Well I will have to drop by at some point to check it out

[porterm]

I remember in the eighties (and probably before) there used to be a small advertisement poster on the wall outside the old park gates opposite the Scenic Railway near the old white "generator house" looking building. The poster had directions to the Shell Grotto on it as well, and I eventually got to go there in the late eighties.

Just for nostalgia, on my first visit to Dreamland I seem to remember seeing a film poster for the infamous Jack Nicholson film "The Shining" with his classic gaze from behind that door. This was when we exited the park from the above same gates towards the shops.

Martin