The Hoverport building by the clocktower at the end of Marine Parade

The Speedferries sign, Hoverspeed logos having not been displayed here for many years

Cars used to cross each other departing and arriving from hovercraft to and fro Calais

Looking back toward Marine Parade and Granville dock from the hoverport roundabout

Do not enter! Now a demolition site

Barricaded off, the old multi-million pound Dover Western Docks Hoverport building, devoid of any identifiable logos

The side-road to the engineering sheds

Still visible, signs pointing drivers to the car park

Looking along the length of the Prince of Wales Pier, the hoverport to the right and the Seacat gantry visible beyond the green fences

The holes in the wall, many a child ran up to these (myself included) every time the high-pitched whine of a hovercraft starting up was heard

A more modern addition, the steps for little people!

Shelter overlooking the hoverpad. Once there were six SRN4s on that stretch of concrete!

Looking toward the engineering sheds down the Seacat gantry's vehicle ramp

The Hoverport building, now silent. Spot the control tower!

The Seacat gantry and hoverport apron plus buildings beyond it

The ramp, where 300-tonnes of flying machine slid into the English Channel without a splash

The Seacat vehicle gantry

Panoramic shot of the Dover hoverport apron

The main terminal buildings, slowly reducing to rubble

From the carpark, not much left standing

No more engineering sheds anymore

The last structures of hoverspeed engineering

As seen from the entrance road. No terminal building remains

Just a propeller left standing, and the customs building

Just a propeller left standing, and the customs building

The site where once stood a proud icon of 1980s technological dream

The site where once stood a proud icon of 1980s technological dream

The site where once stood a proud icon of 1980s technological dream