Royal Marines Deep Refuge Part 2: Upstairs, Chatham, Kent, April 2017
Last month I went down to the Refuge, and when we got to the stairs that lead to the upper levels we thought "fuck that", but it's been bugging me ever since and I just had to get down there, so I got...
View ArticleMapperley Tunnel, Nottingham, Sep16
Visited this last year, and just getting round to posting my photos up. I have visited before, but was never happy with my photos from the first time round, so a return visit had been on the cards for...
View ArticleTunnel and Underground Things around Aldershot, Hampshire - September 2016
Reporting here on a small military-related tunnel in Aldershot. Normally I wouldn't post something as small as this up as a report, but it appeared on this forum a few weeks back as a lead to be...
View ArticleWelbeck Tunnels, Notts, October 2016
The History: Welbeck Abbey is located in the Dukeries in North Nottinghamshire. It was the site of a monastery belonging to the Premonstratensian order in England and after the Dissolution of the...
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hastings caves
met patch today, i gota lead on the caves we didnt find last time, a lot of anger. this it was easy push a big white board out the way and we were in the first room, i had to climb over a broken wall...
View ArticleTunnels in Surrey. August 2016: Late Night visit unsupervised .
Photo heavy as this place was huge. I also had the privilege of going to a non public cave system under the castle grounds, with carvings dating back 100s of years. So first photos are of the big...
View ArticlePort Mulgrave ironstone mine + tunnel, May 2015
Living only ten minutes away from here and having read the report that Acid-Reflux put up last week (and that nearly ended in serious unpleasantness), I was stung into action. This is one place that I...
View ArticleToft Tunnel, near Bourne, Linc, May 2017
1. The History The Bourne to Saxby Railway Act was authorized in 1888 allowing the Eastern & Midlands Railway Company (EMRC) establish a connection between the industries of the Midlands with the...
View ArticleMarc Brunel Sawmill Tunnels & Communications Bunker, Chatham Dockyard - Nov 2016
Marc Brunels Sawmill - An Engineering Monument. Before the introduction of sawmills, all timber at the royal naval dockyards was cut by hand. Timber was delivered to the yard as logs and sawn into...
View ArticleDrewton Tunnel, November 2016
Drewton Tunnel is a disused and dismantled railway tunnel that is in the Drewton/Riplingham area of East Yorkshire. Originally built as a part of the Hull and Barnsley railway line, it served as both a...
View ArticleWentworth D-Day Control Bunker - Surrey - October 2016
Visited with @Minor History: Prior to the outbreak of WW2 there was an ambitious plan to provide protected accommodation beneath Whitehall. The consulting engineer Sir Harley Dalrymple-Hay was...
View ArticleUpper Hale Underground Reservoirs, Aldershot Garrison, Surrey – April 2017
Upper Hale Underground Reservoirs, Aldershot Garrison, Surrey – April 2017 Continuing on from Flexlands, Southside, my friend and myself visited this site. I don’t really do underground, but I quite...
View ArticleThames Water Bunker at Blunsdon, Wiltshire - November 2015
A blast from the past here, don't think it has been reported since 2011. I have been monitoring this bunker for over a year, but it was always locked many times over and not only that but with a Thames...
View ArticleMapperley Tunnel, Nottingham, Sep16
Visited this last year, and just getting round to posting my photos up. I have visited before, but was never happy with my photos from the first time round, so a return visit had been on the cards for...
View ArticleTranmere Deep Tunnel Air Raid Shelter - June '17
Visited with @Xan_Asmodi on what would've otherwise been a day spent looking at the outside of buildings. We had originally planned to spend a day in Liverpool checking out some leads and pints, until...
View ArticleTunbridge Wells Underground Battle Headquarters - Kent - May 2017
Under the Hargate Forest in Tunbridge Wells is the remains of the battle headquarters. A series of tunnels that are mostly inaccessible due to flooding. However armed with a set of thigh waders, I...
View ArticleDisused Railway Tunnel, Grenofen (Aug 2009)
Visited with Icutyou. My second tunnel from the ‘South Devon and Launceston Railway’. Opened in 1859 the tunnel is 341 metres (374yrds) long and takes the old line under the town of Grenofen, 2...
View ArticleHaddon Railway Tunnel Derbyshire June 2017
With this explore I decided to explore the railway tunnel as most people do but as there are 5 ventilation shafts I decided to try and follows these above ground and follow the route of the tunnel back...
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Royal Marines Deep Refuge - Chatham, Kent - March '17
I was up in Kent on work with a bit of time to kill and had heard about this place so bought myself a ticket on the tour bus A few hours on google and Photoshop gave a location and the means of access...
View ArticleRoyal Marines Deep Refuge, Chatham. June 2017
I can't find out too much info on this. This deep shelter was built for the marines, with entrances in the now gone Melville Barracks and also just inside the Dock Road perimeter wall of the barracks....
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