Explored with Konrad and The Vampiric Squid.
After a monumental fail trying to get into a local Fort Knox and dragging The Vampiric Squid all the way up from Hampshire on his hairdrier, I decided it would be a good idea to do something that had been on my list for a long time.
I'll keep it short and sweet because there's little to no history on the shelters themselves, so here's a nice set of air raid shelters from a factory that made cable during the war...
We'd been up all night and hadn't had any sleep since the previous night. We'd been on the go for about 5 hours by the time we got to the tunnels. Here's Squid passed out. I've been winding him up with this picture all afternoon by posting it everywhere! I envy him for being able to sleep anywhere he drops
There's some pretty nice stuff knocking about including this...
And these lovely old Elsans...
There's tons of mint and near mint original signs on the walls to titillate too!
On to some tunnel shots...
The tunnels themselves are actually quite plain, but it's the size of the place, quality of construction and how well preserved they are that is actually the icing on the cake.
Group shot, looking a bit like some sort of crap boyband.
More pics on my Flickr.
Here's a bit of video for it. Please excuse my excitement annd subsequent swearing!
Thanks for looking!
After a monumental fail trying to get into a local Fort Knox and dragging The Vampiric Squid all the way up from Hampshire on his hairdrier, I decided it would be a good idea to do something that had been on my list for a long time.
I'll keep it short and sweet because there's little to no history on the shelters themselves, so here's a nice set of air raid shelters from a factory that made cable during the war...
We'd been up all night and hadn't had any sleep since the previous night. We'd been on the go for about 5 hours by the time we got to the tunnels. Here's Squid passed out. I've been winding him up with this picture all afternoon by posting it everywhere! I envy him for being able to sleep anywhere he drops
There's some pretty nice stuff knocking about including this...
And these lovely old Elsans...
There's tons of mint and near mint original signs on the walls to titillate too!
On to some tunnel shots...
The tunnels themselves are actually quite plain, but it's the size of the place, quality of construction and how well preserved they are that is actually the icing on the cake.
Group shot, looking a bit like some sort of crap boyband.
More pics on my Flickr.
Here's a bit of video for it. Please excuse my excitement annd subsequent swearing!
Thanks for looking!
