Hello chaps, top day all round, found the air raid shelters wich I werent sure we were going to find anything, then did the aux hide I have been trying to visit for about two years, a nice walk around boxted airfield and a brucie bonus for the day in the shape of a good clean ROC post.
The shelters were in great nick, even still had the latrine doors on with M and F still visible
Thers curently a bit of a planning battle going on as tescos want to biuld on the land and put a car park right where the shelters are, we found around seven semi sunken shelters and one above ground shelter
Then it was off to a nearby special duties zero station, after a bit of serching FF found the entrance, although it was around a ten feet drop with no ladder, I managed to climb down and found proberly the best aux hide I have seen yet, the only bit of it that was missing was the original hatch, evidence of wich was at the bottom of the shaft, including the cable and counter wieght used to lift it
The counter wieght and cable
inside was very well preserved, this hide would be an excelent candidate for restoration
The escape tunnel bocked by a large peice of concrete
after that it was off to boxted, this looks like some sort of generator biulding
lot of the biuldings now being used as commercial units.
Then we went to a nearby ROC post and found it to be quite clean and tidy
rest of the pics in here
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v134/drsugfit/my explores/my explores 2/
Regards, Dave
The shelters were in great nick, even still had the latrine doors on with M and F still visible
Thers curently a bit of a planning battle going on as tescos want to biuld on the land and put a car park right where the shelters are, we found around seven semi sunken shelters and one above ground shelter
Then it was off to a nearby special duties zero station, after a bit of serching FF found the entrance, although it was around a ten feet drop with no ladder, I managed to climb down and found proberly the best aux hide I have seen yet, the only bit of it that was missing was the original hatch, evidence of wich was at the bottom of the shaft, including the cable and counter wieght used to lift it
The counter wieght and cable
inside was very well preserved, this hide would be an excelent candidate for restoration
The escape tunnel bocked by a large peice of concrete
after that it was off to boxted, this looks like some sort of generator biulding
lot of the biuldings now being used as commercial units.
Then we went to a nearby ROC post and found it to be quite clean and tidy
rest of the pics in here
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v134/drsugfit/my explores/my explores 2/
Regards, Dave
