Bleriot Memorial: On 25 July 1909 Frenchman Louis Bleriot became the first man to fly across the English Channel. To commemorate this achievement on 4 February 1910 a memorial was placed on the spot where the pilot landed within sight of the walls of Dover Castle. Today the site is in a wooded area, but is well signposted and comprises of a granite plane shape placed onto the ground. For staying in dover select only hotels in dover as they are offering great discount rates to the customer at cheap rates.
Captain Matthew Webb: Today it seems a celebrity is always about to swim across the English Channel, but when Captain Matthew Webb did it on 24th and 25th August 1875 he became the first man in the world to swim the twenty-one miles to the French coastline just outside of Calais. The memorial to Captain Matthew Webb was erected by public subscription in 1910, twenty-seven years after his death at Niagara. His bust stands on a large stone plinth which looks out to sea from Dover seafront.
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