Rosary Road Chalk Mine. Norwich Jan 11

[Speed]

it just goes to a dead end, someones tryed diging through the backfill and given up..

 

[Black Shuck]

Right thanks for that. Did you ever find Rosary B?

 

[DJ-Jamster]

So it was you that caused the collapse of that house in Norwich! and that's why the street sunk.. Nah seriously did you go anywhere near there? They said it was probably an old chalk mine.

 

[Black Shuck]

No not really, the City is riddled with mines.

 

[Em_Ux]

Nice find!
Great shots too

 

[Speed]

Never found a 'B'.. i never found any others attually! There are supposedly a few welded shut doors to some of them but i never managed to find one. The only solid lead i never checked out was the one on Ipswich Road but i had a shead load of cordinates for other ones of which i could find no sign of an entrance at any of the ones i checked...

 

[Black Shuck]

Never found a 'B'.. i never found any others attually! There are supposedly a few welded shut doors to some of them but i never managed to find one. The only solid lead i never checked out was the one on Ipswich Road but i had a shead load of cordinates for other ones of which i could find no sign of an entrance at any of the ones i checked...

Bugger it!! Never mind. It was a cool explore anyway.

 

[dis36]

rosary road B! was a tunnel from somewhere around the factory gates to the river. but there should be two others around this area but god knows where?
ipswich road is well welded up
newmarked road is very very long found one gate but it does not open yet.
there are up to another 28 in the city and 3 others ( not including Grimes Graves) elsewhere in norfolk but now gone i think 1

 

[Black Shuck]

Blimey Dis, you know your stuff there. we did have a scramble up the hill at the back to try and find something but the Undergrowth was like the Amazon.

 

[dis36]

Im sure there was once one the other side of gas hill , spent a long time seaching ketts heights top to bottom , found nothing but brambles! also a little further along on or under ketts hill there was one or more as sometime ago the back of a house went into one , it was reported in EDP etc at time but cant seem to find the paper cutting. if you seach the EDP (maybe at library as i dont seem to get no joy on web) over the years their has been various reports on the mines , loads around the time the bus went in the earlham one i think may 1984 ( Guess?)

 

[Black Shuck]

Im sure there was once one the other side of gas hill , spent a long time seaching ketts heights top to bottom , found nothing but brambles! also a little further along on or under ketts hill there was one or more as sometime ago the back of a house went into one , it was reported in EDP etc at time but cant seem to find the paper cutting. if you seach the EDP (maybe at library as i dont seem to get no joy on web) over the years their has been various reports on the mines , loads around the time the bus went in the earlham one i think may 1984 ( Guess?)

I remember that one well!!, Earlham Road definetly. The backside of the Bus under the road and the top half sticking out skywards.

 

[dis36]

after lots of searching found one of my basic starting points you need Eastern Daily Press Feb10th 1988 on here is a rough map of 24 known tunnel areas...

 

[Black Shuck]

Thanks mate.

 

[topcat]

tunnels

About 20 years ago we were building the office block just before Bertram books.While we were digging the footings we found an old tunnel,very close to the road quite far down.Dont know if that is the one you were in!

 

[Black Shuck]

Not sure, I will have to look Topcat, but thanks for that.

 

[topcat]

It was defo a chalk tunnel because we had to contact council and they got some people to map it and go down there before we filled it in

 

[Black Shuck]

Mate I'm not sure where this place you were on about is? Whereabouts is Betram Books.?

 

[topcat]

Sorry not being much help here.Dont know where your tunnel was but im pretty sure there is one from (if you look at a map,comming off riverside rd a little way up on left hand side there is a u shaped office block and house behind it with ducts on roof.Not far from the gas cilo).Well behind that there is a tunnel which goes from the hill to under rosary rd twrds riverside rd.I bet there is a house on riverside rd with a cellar which it connects to!I dont know exactly where the entrance is but its gotta be close cause some of my workmates went down it while i just ate my sarnies.

 

[Black Shuck]

Yes that's the one, you said the Magic word Gas Silo, Topcat De ner ner ner ner!! Leader of the gang!!!!! Well done!!!

 

[topcat]

Sounds like the same one mate.I know it crosses the road where the entrance is for the building i described in the earlier post as we found it when digging the footings.