IKS Production (Documenting the Past): 2014

Sunday 28 December 2014

Geevor Tin Mine - Cornish Mineral Heritage

Western Heights Drain Tunnel (Historic Document)

Thursday 25 December 2014

Fan Bay deep shelter National Trust Project

Eastbourne Airbourne photos

http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=102579

HMP The Verne

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g2000029-d3871128-i62761130-Jailhouse_Cafe-Portland_Isle_of_Portland_Dorset_England.html

RAF Treleaver: GCI Rotor Station owned by Lizard Ales

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/t/treleaver/index.html

RAF Portland ROTOR Radar Station

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/p/portland/

Horsham ROC Group HQ

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/h/horsham/

Sheerness RNXS Emergency Port Control

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/sheerness/index.html

Queenborough Sub Control

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/q/queenborough/index.html

Fort Bridgewoods AAOR

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/f/fort_bridgewoods/

Maidstone Springfields Kent County Emergency Centre

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/springfields/index.html

Tunbridge Wells Regional War Room

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/t/tunbridge_wells/

Crowborough RGHQ

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/c/crowborough/

Beachy Head Rotor Radar Station

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/b/beachy_head/

Wartling GCI Radar Station

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/w/wartling(raf)_gci_radar_station/index.shtml

Wartling Rotor Radar Station

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/w/wartling/index.html

Hastings Borough Control, East Sussex

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/h/hastings_bc/index.html

Fairlight Rotor Radar Station

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/f/fairlight/index.html

Dover Castle: 'Annex/Casemate/Dumpy' Levels - RSG 12 / SRC 6.2

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/d/dover_castle/

RAF Sandwich ('YTM') R3 GCI ROTOR Radar Station

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/sandwich/index.html

Abbottswood (Barrow): 4 Group, 93 Brigade AAOR for the Barrow GDA

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/a/abbottswood/index.html

Anti-Aircraft Operations Rooms (AAORs): Evolution, Use & Stand down.

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/features/aaor/index.shtml

RAF Ronaldsway bomb store

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/db/988725385.000001.html

Rye Harbour ROC Post

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/db/988303920.036003.html

Aberchirder ROC Post

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/db/987420667.html

Aberangell ROC Post

Aberangell ROC Post http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/db/987856100.html

Abbotsbury ROC Post

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/db/988719866.000001.html

ABBOTS RIPTON ROC Post

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/db/988723834.000001.html

Pilkington Glass factory, Doncaster

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php/93535-Pilkington-Glass-factory-Doncaster-Dec-2014

Tuesday 23 December 2014

Canterbury Cave (Historic Document)

Winchelsea Caves, Dover (Historic Document)

1880 Channel Tunnel Test Bore (Historic Document)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Darenth Park Hospital was founded by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in Darenth near Dartford in Kent as "Darenth School" for 500 children with learning disabilities on 18 November 1878.[1] By 1890 it housed over 1,000 children and adults. In 1911 it became the "Darenth Industrial Trading Colony", and was becoming almost self-sufficient in food production and the manufacture of everyday items through the ample supply of free labour. In 1936, as the age and disability levels of residents increased it became Darenth Park Hospital, and management was transferred from the London County Council, which had succeeded the Metropolitan Asylums Board in the management of this institution, to the new National Health Service in 1948. The hospital drew patients from a wide catchment of south-east London and Kent. By 1970 the population had grown to 1,500 and the physical conditions in this grim and vast Victorian building were increasingly unacceptable by modern standards. The hospital had over 40 wards, of which 10 contained more than 50 residents. Finally in 1973 the Regional Health Board agreed to close Darenth, but the funding and planning required for such a major undertaking took years to put in place. Darenth Park was the first large regional learning disability institution to close in the UK as a result of the UK Government's policy. Audrey Emerton, Baroness Emerton, the South East Thames Regional Chief nursing officer between 1979 and 1990, was the guiding force behind the replacement programme. During the period from the early 1980s, nearly a thousand residents were resettled to other hospitals, hostels, small group homes and local facilities. In August 1988 the last residents were transferred and the hospital finally shut its doors. The buildings have been entirely demolished and the new Darent Valley Hospital built on part of the site. A 'village' of 300 new houses was also built and the remaining 100 acres became the Darenth Country Park. The only surviving building is the former 'Darenth Park Hospital Farm', which is now used as a riding school. Arrow Riding School for the disabled.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darenth_Park_Hospital

Fountain Mental Hospital, Tooting

Tooting was the location for one of the new phase of hospitals erected by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in the 1890s. The MAB had been set up in 1867 to administer care for certain categories of the sick poor in metropolitan London. please visit this site for more info: http://www.workhouses.org.uk/MAB-Fountain/

Bedford Lunatic Asylum

The Bedford Lunatic Asylum was built in 1812, and was the second of its kind in England.[citation needed] It was open for 48 years and closed in 1860 because the asylum was not improving its patients' health. Before the Lunacy Act of 1808, only the rich could afford treatment for physical or mental ailments. Although the wealthy had money to pay for treatment, the techniques available at the time were neither safe nor humane. Purges, vomiting and restraint were standard treatments in an age which considered ‘raving madness’ and melancholia to be caused by physical malfunctions like any other disease."[2] The passage of the Lunacy Act of 1808 allowed counties to build asylums with their own money.[2] Changes started being made to help people with mental illness. Samuel Whitbread was the mastermind behind the asylum. Whitbread concentrated on reforming the town after he failed to become successful in political office. Samuel Whitbread's true intentions with the asylum have always been debated. At the time, Bedford was a small town that needed many improvements, bridges needed to be restored and the town was lacking in industry. There is a question of whether his intentions were to help people, or to help himself and gain good publicity. Even so, in April 1812, the Bedford Lunatic Asylum, designed by John Wing, opened its doors. The asylum, however, did not fulfill the expectations of the people. In 1845, thirty-three years after the opening of the asylum, the UK parliament created a new act stating that counties had to either build their own asylums or operate an asylum jointly with another county. Many other counties didn’t build asylums like Bedford,[2] so there were now twice as many inmates in the asylum and not enough staff to help with their needs. Bedford’s neighboring counties, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire, then sent patients to Bedford. Soon after the three counties combined asylums in Fairfield Hospital near Arlesey, the Bedford Lunatic Asylum was shut down.[2] It was seen as "unsuitable" for patients. Doctors, nurses, and others in the medical field still were ignorant about taking care of the mentally ill. This caused them to use harsh measures to help cure them. Straitjackets and handcuffs were the tools utilized most in the asylum. The attendants had much to do. Not only did they have to restrain the patients, but they also had to bathe them, dress them and help them through their daily exercises. The attendants understood that the patients were sick and should not be held accountable for the things they said and did.[2] Doctors could not determine what would cure the patients, and choosing the type of doctor to treat the patients was also debated. If the lack of knowledge of how to care for the patients wasn’t enough, the asylum would run into other disastrous problems. The site of the asylum is now a residential building. As for the bodies of patients that died at the hospital, they are now buried underneath the children’s playground.[1] From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Lunatic_Asylum#History

WAPPING TUNNEL, Liverpool

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/w/wapping_tunnel/index.shtml

Walton-on-the-Hill CLC Tunnels, Liverpool

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/w/walton_on_the_hill/index.shtml

Tregarth Tunnel, East of Tregarth Village

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/t/tregarth_tunnel/index.shtml

Tower Subway, Tooley Street, London S.E.1 Tower Hill, London E.C.3

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/t/tower_subway/index.shtml

Thomas Lane CLC Tunnel, Liverpool

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/t/thomas_lane_tunnel/index.shtml

Scotland Street Tunnel, Edinburgh

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/s/scotland_street_tunnel/index.shtml

Mittelwerk V2 underground assembly plant and the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, Nordhausen, East Germany

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/n/nordhausen/index.shtml

Newbold (Old) Tunnel - Oxford Canal, Warwickshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/n/newbold_tunnel/index.shtml

Milwr Tunnel, Rhydymwyn, Flintshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/m/milwr_tunnel/index.shtml

Manchester and Salford Junction Canal, Manchester

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/m/manchester_salford_junction/index.shtml

Lyme Regis - Thistle Hill Road Tunnel, Dorset

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/l/lyme_regis_thistloe_hill_tunnel/index.shtml

Liverpool - Edge Hill Cutting & Tunnels, Liverpool 7

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/l/liverpool_edge_hill_cutting/index.shtml

Little Tunnel - Basingstoke Canal, Mapledurwell

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/l/little_tunnel_basingstoke_canal/index.shtml

Huskisson Goods - Sandon & Canada Dock Goods Branch Tunnel, Liverpool

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/h/huskisson_goods_tunnel/index.shtml

Greywell Tunnel - Basingstoke Canal, Hampshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/g/greywell_tunnel_basingstoke_canal/index.shtml

Gatwick Airport - Passenger Subway, West Sussex

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/g/gatwick_airport_passenger_subway/index.shtml

Crystal Palace High Level Station subway, London S.E.19

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/c/crystal_palace_subway/index.shtml

Castel-Vendon Battery & 'Silos', Normandy France

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/c/castel_vendon/index.shtml

'Ho 5' Underground Fuel Store and Electricity Generating Station, St. Anne

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/a/alderney/water_lane_ho5/index.shtml

Lager Sylt Concentration Camp, Helgoland, Norderney, Borkum and Sylt

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/a/alderney/lager_sylt/index.shtml

Essex Hill Munitions Storage Tunnel (Ho 2), Alderney

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/a/alderney/essex_hill/index.shtml

Totnes - South West Water Emergency Control Centre at Littlehempston, Devon

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/t/totnes/index.html

Leicester - Severn Trent Water Emergency Control Centre

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/l/leicester_severn_trent/index.html

Bristol Waterworks Emergency Control Centre, Nettlebridge

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/b/bristol_waterworks/index.html

Brighton Sewers

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/b/brighton_sewers/index.shtml

Blunsdon: Thames Water Bunker, Wiltshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/b/blunsdon/index.html

Barons' Cave Reigate, Surrey

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/b/barons/index.shtml

Weedon Royal Ordnance Depot, Northants

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/w/weedon/index.shtml

Warren Row WWII aircraft factory, Berks

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/w/warren_row/

Trecwn Royal Naval Armaments Depot, Pembrokeshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/t/trecwn/index.shtml

Temple Cloud WWII shadow factory, Somerset

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/t/temple_cloud/

Swynnerton Royal Ordnance Factory, Staffordshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/s/swynnerton_royal_ordnance_filling_factory/index.shtml

Sutton-in-Ashfield Cold Store, Nottinghamshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/s/sutton_cold_store/index.shtml

Steventon Home Office defence and supply store, Oxon

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/steventon/

Rhydymwyn chemical weapons and food storage buffer depot, North Wales

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/r/rhydymwyn/

Reigate - 6th Form College Ice-house, Surrey

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/r/reigate_college_icehouse/index.shtml

Ockham - Ice-house at Hatchford Park School, Surrey

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/o/ockham_hatchford_park_school/index.shtml

Monkton Farleigh Ammunition Depot - Farleigh Down Tunnel, Wiltshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/m/monkton_farleigh/index.shtml Monkton Farleigh is a small village in west Wiltshire, England, 3 miles (6 km) from Bradford-on-Avon, and 5 miles (8.0 km) from the city of Bath. It is known for its underground mines of Bath Stone, which were converted into one of the largest Ministry of Defence underground ammunition stores in the UK.[2] The civil parish has 34 listed buildings, including:[3] Monkton Farleigh Manor (Grade I)[4] the Refectory at Monkton Farleigh Manor (Grade I ruin)[5] Church of St. Peter (Grade II*)[6] CAD Monkton Farleigh[edit] In the 1930s, it was recognised that there was a need to provide secure storage for munitions across the United Kingdom. The proposal was to create three Central Ammunition Depots (CADs): one in the north (Longtown, Cumbria); one in the Midlands (Nesscliffe, Shropshire); and one in the south. The easily hewn Bath stone, a form of limestone, had created a number of large, horizontal, and relatively dry quarries around Corsham. Monkton Farleigh quarry was renovated from the late 1930s by the Royal Engineers as one of the three major stockpiles. In November 1937 the Great Western Railway were contracted to build a 1,000 feet (300 m) long raised twin-loading platform at Shockerwick, with two sidings from the adjacent Bristol-London mainline branching off just outside the eastern entrance to the Box Tunnel at 51°24′19.31″N 2°17′22.94″W. 30 feet (9.1 m) below and at right angles to this point, the War Office had built a narrow gauge wagon sorting yard. This was attached by a 1.25 miles (2.01 km) tunnel built by The Cementation Company, descending at a rate of 1:8.5 to the Central Ammunition Depot, housed in the former mine workings. The whole logistics operation was designed to cope with a maximum of 1,000 tonnes (1,100 tons) of ammunition a day.[7] The narrow gauge trucks would descend from the platform to the tunnel, where a heavy-duty conveyor belt would propel the ammunition directly to the appropriate storage gallery. At any given time the depot was either taking in ammunition or sending it out, never both simultaneously. The construction design meant that an explosive accident or detonation inside any one of the stores would not propagate throughout the ammunition storehouse. The conveyor belt, and the original cable-way used as a temporary installation while the tunnel was being built, ran continuously for 30 days in the run-up to D-Day.[7] CAD Monkton Farleigh closed at the end of hostilities, although was kept in an operational condition until the 1950s. The sidings were then cleared, and not used again until the mid-1980s when a museum opened for a short period on the site. Today the north end of the tunnel is sealed by a concrete and rubble installation, while the former mine/CAD is used for secure commercial document storage.[7] From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Milford Haven RAF Fuel Reserve Depot, Pembrokeshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/m/milford_haven_aviation_fuel_tanks/index.shtml

Micheldever RAF reserve fuel depot, Hants

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/m/micheldever/

Loughborough WWII cold store, Leicestershire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/l/loughborough/

Lords Bridge (FFD4) Forward Filling Depot, Cambridgeshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/l/lords_bridge_ffd/index.shtml

Lords Bridge Air Ammunition Park, Cambridgeshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/l/lords_bridge_air_ammunition_park/index.shtml

Llandudno Junction cold store, Llandudno Junction

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/l/llandudno_junction/

Little Heath (FFD1) Forward Filling Depot, Barnham Heath, Suffolk

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/l/little_heath_forward_filling_depot/index.shtml

Kirkby Royal Ordnance Factory, Liverpool

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/k/kirkby/

Hexham cold store, Northumberland

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/h/hexham/

Henley on Thames WWII shadow factory

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/h/henley/

Hadleigh WWII anti-aircraft magazine, Suffolk

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/h/hadleigh/

Grange Cavern, Flintshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/g/grange_cavern/

Goldsborough Cold Store, North Yorkshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/g/goldsborough_cold_store/index.html

Gaydon Nuclear bomb store, Warwickshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/g/gaydon/

Farncombe Cold Store, Farncombe, Surrey

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/f/farncombe_cold_store/index.html

RAF Faldingworth (92 Maintenance Unit) Nuclear Bomb Store (Permanent Ammunition Depot), Lincolnshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/f/faldingworth/index.html

Eskrick (FFD5) Forward Filling Depot, West Cottingwith

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/e/escrick_ffd/index.shtml

Drakelow underground complex, Kidderminster

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/d/drakelow/

Ditton Priors Royal Navy Armament Depot, Shropshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/d/ditton_priors/index.html

Dean Hill Royal Naval Armaments Depot (RNAD) - later known as Defence Munitions Dean Hill

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/d/dean_hill_rnad/index.shtml

Chilmark, underground ammunition store, Wiltshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/c/chilmark/

Camden Catacombs, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/c/camden_catacombs/index.shtml

Caerwent Royal Navy cordite factory, Gwent

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/c/caerwent/

British Library Basement, St. Pancras, London N.W.1.

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/b/british_library/index.shtml

Bishopsgate Goods Station (Goodsyard), London, E1

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/b/bishopsgate_goods_station/index.shtml

Betchworth food buffer depot, Surrey

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/b/betchworth/

Beddingham Experimental Shaft Kiln, East Sussex

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/b/beddingham_cement_kiln/index.shtml

RAF Barnham (94 Maintenance Unit) Nuclear Bomb Store (Permanent Ammunition Depot), Suffolk

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/b/barnham_nuclear_bomb_store/index.html

The Strategic Food Stockpile

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/features/food/

Leeds - Regional CEGB Grid Control Centre at Rothwell Haigh

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/r/rothwell_haigh_grid/index.html

Mannez Quarry and 'Ho 1' German Munitions Tunnel

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/a/alderney/mannez_quarry/index.shtml

Keighley - Royal Arcade, West Yorkshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/k/keighley_royal_arcade/index.shtml

Chernobyl power station

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/c/chernobyl/

Wollenberg - Station 301 (Tropospheric Communications Station), Wollenberg, East Germany

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/w/wollenberg_troposcsatter_station/index.html

Wildpark (Kurfürst) Communications Bunker, Potsdam, East Germany

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/w/wildpark/index.html

Warmley - GPO(BT) Protected PR2, Warmley, Bristol

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/w/warmley/index.html

Uddingston - GPO(BT) Protected PR1 Repeater, Glasgow

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/u/uddingston_repeater/index.html

Strausberg - NVA Communications and Operations bunkers, Strausberg, East Germany

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/strausberg/index.html

Stockport - GPO(BT) Protected PR1 repeater, Stockport, Cheshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/stockport/index.html

Rugby Radio Station, Warwickshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/r/rugby_radio/index.shtml

Queslett - GPO(BT) Protected PR1 Repeater, Birmingham

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/q/queslett_repeater/index.html

Portsmouth - GPO(BT) Protected PR1 repeater, Portsdown Hill

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/p/portsmouth_bt_repeater/index.html

Paulsgrove Quarry (Portsmouth) - Underground Radio Station

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/p/paulsgrove_quarry_radio_station/index.shtml

Ottringham - BBC Ottringham, Yorkshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/o/ottringham/index.shtml

North Weald - Ongar Radio Transmitting Station, Essex

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/n/north_weald_ongar_radio/index.shtml

Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridgeshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/m/mullard_radio_astronomy_observatory/index.shtml

Mormond Hill - North Atlantic Radio System, Aberdeen

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/m/mormond_hill/

Lyndon Green PR1 Protected Repeater Station, Birmingham 26

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/l/lyndon_green/index.html

Chancery Lane deep shelter & Kingsway telephone exchange

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/k/kingsway/

Jersey - BBC Transmitter site at Les Platons

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/j/Jersey_bbc_les_platons/index.html

Ipswich: Autovon Telephone Exchange, Martesham Heath, Suffolk

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/i/ipswich/index.html

Guardian telephone exchange, Manchester

http://www.mancubist.co.uk/2006/07/25/guardian-exchange-manchesters-cold-war-bunkers/

GIBRALTAR - Rock WT Station

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/e/europa_point/

Garzau NVA Computer Centre, East Germany

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/g/garzau_nva_computer_centre/index.html

Fort Southwick NATO Communications Centre (Commcen), Portsmouth, Hampshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/f/fort_southwick_comcen/index.html

Crowborough - RGHQ 6.1 & Aspidistra, Kingstanding, East Sussex

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/c/crowborough/

Criggion Radio Station, Montgomeryshire, Wales

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/c/criggion_radio/index.shtml

RAF Cricklade - WW2 GCI (Happidrome) Radar Station

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/c/cricklade/index.shtml

Cricklade Radio Site

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/c/cricklade/

Brinklow Heath - Protected BBC transmitter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/b/brinklow_heath/index.html

Birmingham Anchor Telephone Exchange

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/b/birmingham_anchor_exchange/index.html

Wood Norton Hall

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/w/woodnorton/

BBC Ottringham, Yorkshire

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/o/ottringham/index.html

COLD WAR EARLY WARNING SYSTEM

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/features/cold_war_early_warning_system/index.html

The Towers of Backbone

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/features/backbone/index.shtml

NATO communications system

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/features/ace_high/index.html

The London Civil Defence Controls

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/features/london_controls/

Deep level shelters in London

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/features/deep_level_shelters/index.html

Beyond War Plan UK: civil defence in the 1980s

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/features/beyond/

Tonbridge - Slade School Air Raid Shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/t/tonbridge_slade_school/index.shtml

Stockwell Deep Level shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/stockwell/index.html

South Kentish Town Station

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/s/south_kentish_town_station/index.shtml

Shooters Hill - Air raid shelter in Warren Wood

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/s/shooters_hill/index.shtml

Sheppey - Harty Ferry Air Raid Shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/s/sheppey_harty_ferry_shelter/index.shtml

Scotland Street Tunnel

Rothwell Civil Defence Control Centre

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/r/rothwell_cd_control/index.html

Rochester - Shorts Brothers Seaplane Factory and public air raid shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/r/rochester/

Ramsgate Public Air Raid Shelter & Scenic Railway

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/r/ramsgate_air_raid_shelter_and_scenic_railway/index.shtml

Pluckley - Domestic fallout shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/p/pluckley/index.html

Northolt - Ealing West ARP Sub Control & Gas Decontamination Station

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/n/northolt_sub_control/index.shtml

Manchester and Salford Junction Canal

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/m/manchester_salford_junction/index.shtml

Cardiff - Llandaff Court WW2 Control

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/c/cardiff_landaff_court/index.shtml

Kintyre Civil Defence Training Centre

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/k/kintyre_cd_centre/index.html

King William Street Station

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/k/king_william_street_station/index.shtml

County Borough of Huddersfield - Civil Defence Control Centre

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/h/huddersfield_cd_centre%20/index.html

Harrogate, North Yorkshire Sub County Control

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/h/harrogate_cd_centre/index.html

Hackney WW2 ARP Control Centre & Post War Borough Control

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/h/hackney1/index.html

Goodge Street: Deep Level Shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/g/goodge_st/index.html

Godstone - Private Fallout Shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/g/godstone/index.html

German Air-Raid Shelters - an introduction to the Luftschutzbunker of World War II

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/g/german_air_raid_shelters/index.shtml

Fort Widley

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/f/fort_widley/index.shtml

Eton College Nuclear Bunker

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/e/eton_college/index.html

East Sheen - St. Leonard's Road Air Raid Shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/e/east_sheen/index.html

Croydon - Whitgift School air raid shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/c/croydon_whitgift_school/index.shtml

Crayford - Air Raid Shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/c/crayford_air_raid_shelter/index.shtml

Clapton - WW2 ARP Control Centre & Post War Hackney Borough Sub-Control

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/c/clapton/index.html

Clapham South Deep Level Air-Raid Shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/c/clapham_south/index.html

Clapham North Deep Level Shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/c/clapham_north/index.html

Clapham Common Deep Level shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/c/clapham_common/index.html

City Road Station

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/c/city_road_station/index.shtml

Charlwood Air Raid Shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/c/charlwood_air_raid_shelter/index.shtml

Camden Town Deep Level Shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/c/camden_town/index.html

Brunswick Tunnel

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/b/brunswick_tunnel/index.shtml

Brooklands - Vickers-Armstrong air raid shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/v/vickers_shelter/index.shtml

Clifton Rocks Tunnel

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/b/bristol_clifton_rocks/index.html

Blackheath Hill - Railway tunnel and air raid shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/b/blackheath_hill/index.shtml

Bexhill Civil Defence Centre

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/b/bexhill_civil_defence_centre/

Belsize Park Deep Level Air-Raid Shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/b/belsize_park_deep_shelter/index.shtml

Belsize Park: Deep Level Shelter

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/b/belsize_park/index.html

Corby - ARP Control Centre (Stewarts & Lloyds Minerals Steelworks)

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/c/corby_stewarts_and_lloyds_steelworks/index.shtml

Aldwych - Holborn branch (Piccadilly Line)

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/a/aldwych-holborn-branch_line/index.shtml

Friday 19 December 2014

Langdon Barracks Shelter, Langdon Cliffs

These caves are located behind the demolished warders house at the former Langdon Prison and Barracks. The date of these caves is unknown, they could possibly be World War 1 for sheltering from the German zeppelin bombing.

But they could also have been built in World War two, for sheltering from shelling from the Gun Batteries of German Occupied France.

The tunnel is a common layout, two entrances, and a centre point where they could have bunks and chairs. In my opinion its not a deep shelter, so a direct hit would be bad.

Langdon Battery Observation Post

Langdon Battery Observation Post located on the White Cliffs of Dover.

This location was a observation post (look out) for Langdon Battery which today is the Dover coastguard station.

A brick lined and unlined tunnel links the battery to the OP on the cliff face. The tunnel is blocked half way with what seems to be meter think of concrete and steel.

This video shows you inside the OP and what remains today.

Saturday 29 November 2014

German Batterie Waldam

Fort Amherst, Chatham

Fort Burgoyne (Western Outworks) Dover

Fort Burgoyne (Western Outworks) Dover, Kent.

A napoleonic outer flank, protecting the west end of Fort Burgoyne.

Theres also a fort protecting the eastern flank, but i think theres a homeless person living in there.

Archcliffe Gate Galleries, Western Heights (Historic Document)

This is the Firing galleries for Archcliffe Gate, the three galleries over look the draw bridge of the now filled in moat of Archcliffe Gate.

Off from the galleries is the lavatories and main entrance as well as a magazine for St martins battery aka western heights battery.

These rooms would have been used in world war 2 for something, I dont know what.

All the wooden flooring in the Galleries have been removed unfortunately, and there has been a few fires in Archcliffe Gate Galleries. Its very unfortunate, these places are left like this!

1880 Channel Tunnel Test Bore (Historic Document)

The revisit to the 1880 channel tunnel test bore dating 1880. This time I go to the end of the bore. Very wet and cold around 200 feet underground.

Monday 10 November 2014

Winchelsea Caves (Historic Document)

Winchelsea tunnels were used in the second world war for air raid shelters for the public of Dover.

These tunnels linked Winchelsea, Westmount & Priory Hill Tunnel System.

Saturday 1 November 2014

Archcliffe Gate Cells, Western Heights (Historic Document)

Wednesday 29 October 2014

North Centre and Detached Bastions, Dover Western Heights

Z Rocket Deep Shelter

Sunday 26 October 2014

St Margaret's 5.5″ Battery Deep Shelter (Historic Document)

Wednesday 1 October 2014

Citadel Battery Magazine No.2 (Historic Document)

Detached Bastion (East Gallery) Western Heights

North Centre Bastion 1804, Western Heights (Historic Document)

Saturday 20 September 2014

Civil Defence Bunker, Chatham, Kent

Eastry Hospital

Sunday 14 September 2014

Leybourne grange Hospital 2006/7

The hospital was built as a colony for mentally defective persons by Kent county council utilising an existing mansion and estate. In 1936 it housed up to 1200 patients in different sections: Male, Female and Juveniles.

info from:

http://wikimapia.org/7598305/Former-Leybourne-Grange-Hospital

Lydden Spout Battery (Historic Document) Playlist

SubBrit Info:

Lydden Spout Battery is one of a number of coastal batteries established during WW2 along the Kent Coast. It was built in 1941 and manned by men of 520 Coastal Regiment Royal Artillery. The battery was located on the south side of a dead end minor road running west from Dover (now the A20) and in April 1941 was armed with three 6" Mk. VII naval guns on Mk. V mountings. These were later changed to Mk. XXIV guns on Mk. V mountings. They were 45 degree high angle guns giving then a longer range and they fired a 102lb shell a maximum of 24,550 yards on a full charge. The battery is identical to Fan Bay Battery on the east side of Dover. Although initially little appears visible as most of the buildings have been demolished most of the underground features are still intact. The three emplacements are still extant although they have been infilled with only the concrete surrounding them visible. The three magazines serving the emplacements are still accessible with care as is the deep level shelter. The most prominent features are two single storey brick buildings beside a public footpath on the south side of the A20. The smaller of the two buildings, closer to the A20, was the Warrant Officer's and Sergeants' Mess. This is a rectangular brick building with an extension on one end with an entrance porch and a ladder up to the roof on the wall alongside. The second larger building is roughly 'T' shaped; this was the dining room and cookhouse. Both buildings have been completely stripped of all fixtures and fittings including windows and doors and are now used as cattle sheds. All other buildings on the site have been demolished although some footings are visible as are the roads. Just past the dining room on the opposite side of the camp road there is a large earth covered mound. Beneath this is the underground battery plotting room and command post. The main entrance block was demolished in the 1960's although the backfilled access shaft is still visible on top of the mound. At the southern end of the mound is the emergency escape shaft with a hinged metal hatch. This was sealed with concrete in the 1960's but was re-opened in March 2003 giving access to the well preserved plotting room below.

Folkestone Warren Drainage Adit (Historic Document)

At the Folkestone Warren there are a number of drainage adits tunnels. The tunnels help the natural springs flow out onto the beach, bypassing the Folkestone to Dover railway lines and reducing the risk of landslides.

The tunnel itself is in good shape, having been relined in the '70's with a prefabricated corrugated and galvanized steel lining reminiscent of the wriggley tin linings used in the military deep shelters. The tunnel leads back under the railway line with a concrete section where it goes under the actual line to a sleeper dead end. There is a continuous small stream of water running out along the tunnel from this point.

Info From:

http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=ukpillboxesandin;id=6;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecastlekas%2Efreeserve%2Eco%2Euk%2Fhome%2Ehtm

Thursday 11 September 2014

Lydden Spout Magazine No. 2 (Historic Document)

Lydden Spout Battery is one of a number of coastal batteries established during WW2 along the Kent Coast. It was built in 1941 and manned by men of 520 Coastal Regiment Royal Artillery. The battery was located on the south side of a dead end minor road running west from Dover (now the A20) and in April 1941 was armed with three 6" Mk. VII naval guns on Mk. V mountings. These were later changed to Mk. XXIV guns on Mk. V mountings. They were 45 degree high angle guns giving then a longer range and they fired a 102lb shell a maximum of 24,550 yards on a full charge. The battery is identical to Fan Bay Battery on the east side of Dover. Although initially little appears visible as most of the buildings have been demolished most of the underground features are still intact. The three emplacements are still extant although they have been infilled with only the concrete surrounding them visible. The three magazines serving the emplacements are still accessible with care as is the deep level shelter. The most prominent features are two single storey brick buildings beside a public footpath on the south side of the A20. The smaller of the two buildings, closer to the A20, was the Warrant Officer's and Sergeants' Mess. This is a rectangular brick building with an extension on one end with an entrance porch and a ladder up to the roof on the wall alongside. The second larger building is roughly 'T' shaped; this was the dining room and cookhouse. Both buildings have been completely stripped of all fixtures and fittings including windows and doors and are now used as cattle sheds. All other buildings on the site have been demolished although some footings are visible as are the roads. Just past the dining room on the opposite side of the camp road there is a large earth covered mound. Beneath this is the underground battery plotting room and command post. The main entrance block was demolished in the 1960's although the backfilled access shaft is still visible on top of the mound. At the southern end of the mound is the emergency escape shaft with a hinged metal hatch. This was sealed with concrete in the 1960's but was re-opened in March 2003 giving access to the well preserved plotting room below.

Lydden Spout Magazine No. 1 (Historic Document)

Tuesday 2 September 2014

Lydden Spout Plotting Room (Historic Document)

My new document into the plotting room at Lydden Spout Battery.

SubBrit Info:

Lydden Spout Battery is one of a number of coastal batteries established during WW2 along the Kent Coast. It was built in 1941 and manned by men of 520 Coastal Regiment Royal Artillery. The battery was located on the south side of a dead end minor road running west from Dover (now the A20) and in April 1941 was armed with three 6" Mk. VII naval guns on Mk. V mountings. These were later changed to Mk. XXIV guns on Mk. V mountings. They were 45 degree high angle guns giving then a longer range and they fired a 102lb shell a maximum of 24,550 yards on a full charge. The battery is identical to Fan Bay Battery on the east side of Dover. Although initially little appears visible as most of the buildings have been demolished most of the underground features are still intact. The three emplacements are still extant although they have been infilled with only the concrete surrounding them visible. The three magazines serving the emplacements are still accessible with care as is the deep level shelter. The most prominent features are two single storey brick buildings beside a public footpath on the south side of the A20. The smaller of the two buildings, closer to the A20, was the Warrant Officer's and Sergeants' Mess. This is a rectangular brick building with an extension on one end with an entrance porch and a ladder up to the roof on the wall alongside. The second larger building is roughly 'T' shaped; this was the dining room and cookhouse. Both buildings have been completely stripped of all fixtures and fittings including windows and doors and are now used as cattle sheds. All other buildings on the site have been demolished although some footings are visible as are the roads. Just past the dining room on the opposite side of the camp road there is a large earth covered mound. Beneath this is the underground battery plotting room and command post. The main entrance block was demolished in the 1960's although the backfilled access shaft is still visible on top of the mound. At the southern end of the mound is the emergency escape shaft with a hinged metal hatch. This was sealed with concrete in the 1960's but was re-opened in March 2003 giving access to the well preserved plotting room below.

1880 Channel Tunnel Test Bore (Historic Document) Trailer 1

A first look at my new video into the 1880 channel tunnel test bore.

Sub Brit Info:

There had been numerous proposals for a tunnel under the channel throughout the 19th Century including one by Napoleon, but the first serious attempt to build a tunnel came with an Act of Parliament in 1875 authorising the Channel Tunnel Company Ltd. to start preliminary trials. This was an Anglo French project with a simultaneous Act of Parliament in France. By 1877 several shafts had been sunk to a depth of 330 feet at Sangatte in France but initial work carried out at St. Margaret's Bay, to the east of Dover had to be abandoned due to flooding. In 1880 under the direction of Sir Edward Watkin, Chairman of the South Eastern Railway, a new shaft (No. 1 shaft) was sunk at Abbot's Cliff, between Dover and Folkestone with a horizontal gallery being driven along the cliff, 10 feet above the high water mark. This seven foot diameter pilot tunnel was eventually to be enlarged to standard gauge with a connection to the South Eastern Railway.

After Welsh miners had bored 800 feet of tunnel a second shaft (No 2) was sunk at Shakespeare Cliff in February 1881. This tunnel was started under the foreshore heading towards a mid channel meeting with the French pilot tunnel.

Both tunnels were to have been bored using a compressed air boring machine invented and built by Colonel Fredrick Beaumont MP. Beaumont had been involved with the Channel Tunnel Company since 1874 and had successfully bored a number of tunnels without the use of explosives and 3 ½ times faster than manual labour. It was not however Beaumont's boring machine that was used. Captain Thomas English of Dartford, Kent patented a far superior rotary boring machine in 1880 capable of cutting nearly half a mile a month and it was this not Beaumont's machine that was used on this first attempt at tunnelling under the channel. The tunnel was credited to Beaumont in 'The Engineer' magazine and despite letters of protest from English the editor refused to correct the mistake and Beaumont did nothing to clarify the situation. Even to this day this early Channel Tunnel trial is often credited to the Beaumont machine.

The Channel Tunnel Company expected the pilot tunnel to be completed by 1886. Sir Edward Watkin applied to the government for public funds to complete the 11 mile section to meet the French mid channel. These funds were not forthcoming so Sir Edward formed a new company, The Submarine Continental Railway Company that took over the shafts and headings from the South Eastern Railway in 1882. The company prepared a new Bill to put before Parliament but by now the government were getting worried about the military implications of a link to Europe and a new military commission heard evidence from Lieutenant General Sir Garnet Wolseley that the tunnel might be "calamitous for England", he added that "No matter what fortifications and defences were built, there would always be the peril of some continental army seizing the tunnel exit by surprise." Despite assurances from Sir Edward that the defence against invasion was adequate by flooding the tunnel, cutting of the ventilation and forcing smoke into the tunnel and cutting the cables on the lifts in the shaft thereby trapping any invader at the bottom, the commission was not convinced.

READ MORE AT:

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/c/channel_tunnel_1880_attempt/index.shtml

Thursday 14 August 2014

Grain Tower Battery 1855, Grain Fort

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Grain Fort was built in the 1860s on the Isle of Grain (not a true island) at the eastern tip of the Hoo peninsula to control the entrance to the Medway, Kent, England. All surface structures were demolished in the 1960s, leaving only underground passages. Nearby, about half a mile offshore at 51°27′06″N 0°43′53″E and accessible on foot at low tide, is the 1855 Grain Tower Battery, an extensively remodelled East Coast-type Martello Tower.[1] During the Second World War it was manned and had three guns on the roof.[2] The building, with address Number 1, The Thames, Sheerness ME3, was bought from the Crown Estate in approximately 2005 by a private owner, and offered for sale again from 2010.[3] It was still available as of 2014, with a guide price of £500,000.[4] Grain Tower Battery. Garrison Point Fort lies the other side of the Medway.

Wednesday 13 August 2014

The Belle Vue Tavern Caves, Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate

My most recent visit (2014) im using GoPro 3+ and hero 2 & sony handycam. These caves are located in Pegwell Bay in Thanet, Kent. These are located underneath The Belle Vue Tavern.

Sound Mirrors Denge, Dungeness, Kent

A new document into the sound mirrors in Dungeness, Kent.

Monday 2 June 2014

Canterbury Cave (Historic Document)

The Canterbury Cave, My greatest challenge yet! A crazy system of natural tunnels inside the cliffs at St. Margaret's Bay, Dover. This link will give more info into the caves: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dave/personal/cave/canterbury.htm

Saturday 24 May 2014

North Lines Sally Port, Western Heights

The North Lines Sally Port located in the Western Heights, a place not well documented.

Lydden Spout Deep Shelter (Historic Document)

Lydden Spout Deep Shelter (Historic Document) A document into the deep shelter at Lydden Spout Battery.

Monday 28 April 2014

North Lines Sally Port (+playlist)

Sunday 27 April 2014

Lydden Spout Deep Shelter (Historic Document)

Monday 21 April 2014

RAF Hawkinge WW2 Fuel Storage Bunker

RAF Hawkinge Aircraft Fuel Installation aka, RAF HAWKINGE WW2 Fuel Storage Bunker. A 2011 documentary filmed by Jamie Dench and Presented by Ian Stead.

Fort Burgoyne Western Outworks

Western Outworks of Fort Burgoyne, this place was heavily overgrown in 2007.Will do a newer video soon. These photos and videos were found on a backup disk, I thought they were gone for ever.

Cowgate Tunnel (Photo SlideShow)

These are my photos of a trip to the tunnels in 2007 there is a very small video clip in the video and the rest is photos. Soldiers' Home Caves & Durham Hill Tunnels

Channel Tunnel 1880 Attempt

Detached Bastion & North Centre Bastion (AKA Smokey)

Detached Bastion & North Centre Bastion - Haunting Experience A nice scary video looking around Smokey in Dover. Filmed 2009. Soundtrack from Tomb Raider Game

Langdon Hole Deep Shelter

A 2007 edited video, lots of angles you would not expect to see, I want to say it makes a different video. This video soundtrack is Ghost Ship, I edit my video to the soundtrack.

Fan Bay Deep Shelter

A video filmed in Jan 2013, a great view of the shelter from different angles. Some of which you may not have seen before.

North Lines Sally Port, Western Heights

The North Lines Sally Port located in the Western Heights, a place not well documented.

Monday 3 March 2014

Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker

The original documentary from 2008 IKS Production 2008

Friday 14 February 2014

Cliffe Fort - Flooded magazines

Cliffe Fort - Flooded magazines (Location 1) Cliffe Fort is a Royal Commission fort built in the 1860s on the edge of the Cliffe marshes on the Hoo Peninsula in north Kent Cliffe Fort, Kent, this is the underground magazine that are flooded. It is a maze down there, very clean. IKS production 2012 Cliffe Fort - Flooded magazines (Location 2)

Tuesday 4 February 2014

Langdon Hole Deep Shelter (Historic Document)

Langdon Hole Shelter (Historic Document) Soundtracks: Tomb Raider 6 This is Langdon Hole Deep Shelter near Dover. This is one of two of this type of complex in the Dover area. At Long Hill theres a underground radio station named Long Hill Deep Shelter. Long hill radio station was named DUMPY A and Langdon Hole DUMPY B. Code names maybe. Langdon Hole may have been a back up communication bunker for DUMPY under Dover Castle, if it become unavailable. Im going to show you around Langdon Hole tunnels, looking for things that may have been over looked in the past. Im filming with two cameras, a Sony DV camera and a GoPro Head camera, for two different looks and for you to see different angles. This might possibly be my last trip to the hole, I feel its been done way too much.

Sunday 2 February 2014

The Secrets of Underground Britain - HIDDEN HISTORY

The Secrets of Underground Britain - WARTIME SECRETS

The Secrets of Underground Britain - MODERN MYSTERIES

The Secrets of Underground Britain

The Secrets of Underground Britain - HIDDEN HISTORY The Secrets of Underground Britain - WARTIME SECRETS The Secrets of Underground Britain - MODERN MYSTERIES From YouTube: Ardee Video

Saturday 1 February 2014

Upper Oil Mills, Dover (Location 3)

Oil Mills, Dover (Location 3) Upper Oil Mills Dover A look in the upper oil mills Dover. Half way through this video my video light starts to run out and cuts the adventure short. But still, you see some great sights up to that point! IKS Production 2014

Saturday 25 January 2014

The Defences of Calais (Hitlers Atlantic Wall)

No 1 Group ROC HeadQuarters, a cold war bunker used by the Royal Observer Corps. This video shows some interesting shots from inside the bunker. Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Observer_Corps IKS Production 2010

Tunbridge Wells Tunnels

Tunbridge Wells Tunnels A system of flooded tunnels lies sixty feet below Hargate Forest on Broadwater Down in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Friday 24 January 2014

Shorts Brothers Seaplane Factory and public air raid shelter

2009 trip to Shorts Brothers Seaplane Factory and public air raid shelter. This video is mainly music from tomb raider 6 soundtrack.

Tuesday 21 January 2014

Plymouth Maritime Headquarters (Mount Wise)

A massive complex of tunnels from WW2 used for radio, telephone and telegraph. more info on the subbrit website: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/m/mount_wise/index1.html IKS Production 2009 Soundtrack: Tomb Raider 6 A private trip in 2009/2010

Monday 20 January 2014

Eastry Mental Hospital, Kent (Super 8mm Cine Film)

A Short film shot on a Canon Super 8mm camera shot at the remains of Eastry Hospital.

Shorts Brothers Seaplane Factory, Rochester

Rochester - Shorts Brothers Seaplane Factory and public air raid shelter

Cane Hill Asylum Remembered

A trailer into the Cane Hill Asylum made in 2008.

Eastry Mental Hospital, Kent

2006 trailer into the Eastry Mental, Institution. These buildings have long since gone, filmed 2006.

Hamstreet ROC Post

No. 1 Group ROC HQ, Maidstone, Kent

Felixstowe ROC Post, Suffolk

Sealed ROC Post Opened in June 1962, closed October 1968.

Sedlescombe ROC Post

Dymchurch ROC Post

Citadel Battery, Western Heights, Dover

Citadel Battery, Western Heights, Dover. These static HD shot show the remains of the former 19th Century gun battery in 2014. A walk with the dog up to citadel battery, hard to film holding the lead. IKS Production 2013

Citadel Battery Magazine, Dover

Underground Magazine from the 19th century gun battery.

St. Martin's Battery, Dover

This video is a re-edit from a video i made in 2007 that i deleted be mistake, I had the original DV tape backed up in the archives so i made another one. Its very close to the original Built in the 1870s for three 10-inch RML guns over looking the beaches of Dover. In the second world war the battery was heavily modernised for use with bigger guns. Also a ww2 deep shelter was dug at the back of the site where the forma 1870s magazine was housed.

WW2 Battery Plotting room

WW2 Battery Magazine No 4

South Foreland Shelter 1

Langdon Hole Shelter Entrance No. 2

Langdon Bay Cliff Fall 27/08/13

Below from: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/safety-warning-after-cliff-falls-5229/ A warning's been issued after a chalk fall from Dover’s White Cliffs on Sunday and yesterday blocked the stairs to Langdon Bay. Coastguard Paul Evans said it's unlikely they can ever be used again. He has now issued a safety warning for people walking from St Margaret’s Bay to Langdon to make sure they check the tides, because they can no longer use the stairs.

Langdon Prison Shelter

Langdon Hole WW2 Complex

Fan Bay WW2 Shelter

Langdon Hole (IKS Cut) 2008 Documentary

Langdon Hole (college cut down) 2008 Documentary

Channel Tunnel - 1880 attempt

The first bore tunnel sunk to test the machine that would eventually go across the channel. 2014 trailer: A first look at my new video into the 1880 channel tunnel test bore. Sub Brit Info: There had been numerous proposals for a tunnel under the channel throughout the 19th Century including one by Napoleon, but the first serious attempt to build a tunnel came with an Act of Parliament in 1875 authorising the Channel Tunnel Company Ltd. to start preliminary trials. This was an Anglo French project with a simultaneous Act of Parliament in France. By 1877 several shafts had been sunk to a depth of 330 feet at Sangatte in France but initial work carried out at St. Margaret's Bay, to the east of Dover had to be abandoned due to flooding. In 1880 under the direction of Sir Edward Watkin, Chairman of the South Eastern Railway, a new shaft (No. 1 shaft) was sunk at Abbot's Cliff, between Dover and Folkestone with a horizontal gallery being driven along the cliff, 10 feet above the high water mark. This seven foot diameter pilot tunnel was eventually to be enlarged to standard gauge with a connection to the South Eastern Railway. After Welsh miners had bored 800 feet of tunnel a second shaft (No 2) was sunk at Shakespeare Cliff in February 1881. This tunnel was started under the foreshore heading towards a mid channel meeting with the French pilot tunnel. Both tunnels were to have been bored using a compressed air boring machine invented and built by Colonel Fredrick Beaumont MP. Beaumont had been involved with the Channel Tunnel Company since 1874 and had successfully bored a number of tunnels without the use of explosives and 3 ½ times faster than manual labour. It was not however Beaumont's boring machine that was used. Captain Thomas English of Dartford, Kent patented a far superior rotary boring machine in 1880 capable of cutting nearly half a mile a month and it was this not Beaumont's machine that was used on this first attempt at tunnelling under the channel. The tunnel was credited to Beaumont in 'The Engineer' magazine and despite letters of protest from English the editor refused to correct the mistake and Beaumont did nothing to clarify the situation. Even to this day this early Channel Tunnel trial is often credited to the Beaumont machine. The Channel Tunnel Company expected the pilot tunnel to be completed by 1886. Sir Edward Watkin applied to the government for public funds to complete the 11 mile section to meet the French mid channel. These funds were not forthcoming so Sir Edward formed a new company, The Submarine Continental Railway Company that took over the shafts and headings from the South Eastern Railway in 1882. The company prepared a new Bill to put before Parliament but by now the government were getting worried about the military implications of a link to Europe and a new military commission heard evidence from Lieutenant General Sir Garnet Wolseley that the tunnel might be "calamitous for England", he added that "No matter what fortifications and defences were built, there would always be the peril of some continental army seizing the tunnel exit by surprise." Despite assurances from Sir Edward that the defence against invasion was adequate by flooding the tunnel, cutting of the ventilation and forcing smoke into the tunnel and cutting the cables on the lifts in the shaft thereby trapping any invader at the bottom, the commission was not convinced. READ MORE AT: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/c/channel_tunnel_1880_attempt/index.shtml IKS Production 2008 visit:

South Flank Casemates

South Flank Casemates Drain Tunnel

Reculver Towers (8mm Cine film)

Filmed on an old Cine film camera in 2011/12 IKS Production 2011

Western Heights Fortifications Dover

Western Heights, Drain Tunnel, Dover

West of Dover WW2 Exploring

Lydden Spout Battery, Deep Shelter, Dover

A complex of tunnels that lies abandoned near Dover, used in WW2 as accommodation for the gun crew at the battery. IKS Production 2008 SubBrit Info: Lydden Spout Battery is one of a number of coastal batteries established during WW2 along the Kent Coast. It was built in 1941 and manned by men of 520 Coastal Regiment Royal Artillery. The battery was located on the south side of a dead end minor road running west from Dover (now the A20) and in April 1941 was armed with three 6" Mk. VII naval guns on Mk. V mountings. These were later changed to Mk. XXIV guns on Mk. V mountings. They were 45 degree high angle guns giving then a longer range and they fired a 102lb shell a maximum of 24,550 yards on a full charge. The battery is identical to Fan Bay Battery on the east side of Dover. Although initially little appears visible as most of the buildings have been demolished most of the underground features are still intact. The three emplacements are still extant although they have been infilled with only the concrete surrounding them visible. The three magazines serving the emplacements are still accessible with care as is the deep level shelter. The most prominent features are two single storey brick buildings beside a public footpath on the south side of the A20. The smaller of the two buildings, closer to the A20, was the Warrant Officer's and Sergeants' Mess. This is a rectangular brick building with an extension on one end with an entrance porch and a ladder up to the roof on the wall alongside. The second larger building is roughly 'T' shaped; this was the dining room and cookhouse. Both buildings have been completely stripped of all fixtures and fittings including windows and doors and are now used as cattle sheds. All other buildings on the site have been demolished although some footings are visible as are the roads. Just past the dining room on the opposite side of the camp road there is a large earth covered mound. Beneath this is the underground battery plotting room and command post. The main entrance block was demolished in the 1960's although the backfilled access shaft is still visible on top of the mound. At the southern end of the mound is the emergency escape shaft with a hinged metal hatch. This was sealed with concrete in the 1960's but was re-opened in March 2003 giving access to the well preserved plotting room below. NEW 2014! indepth look at the tunnels with two cameras: Lydden Spout Deep Shelter (Historic Document)

Southern Water Bunker

Kelvedon Hatch R4 ROTOR Bunker

Southern Water Emergency Control Centres (Mike Wade interview)

Chatham - Southern Water Emergency Control Centre. A nuclear bunker for the people of Southern Water. Mike Wade talks about the Southern Water Control Centres. There are two of these videos. One in Gillingham and the other is in Brede. IKS Production 2009 This site is open some days in the year. Google brede Bunker for info on open times. During the late 1980's Southern Water built three emergency control centres one at Brede in Sussex, one at Twyford in Hampshire. This is one is in Brede, Sussex.

Frank Illingworth's Tunnel

2009 explore of the very small cave known as Frank Illingworth's Tunnel.

Pegwell Bay Seaweed Tunnel

Eastcliff Caverns Abseil, Ramsgate

Eastcliff Caverns, Ramsgate

Ramsgate's Natural Beach Cavern

Pegwell Bay Witches Kitchen

Another Cave at Ramsgate Pegwell Bay called the Witches Kitchen.

The Belle Vue Tavern Caves

Knights Templar Church, Western Heights, Dover

The remains of a 12 century church built by the Knights Templar. The remains were found by the military engineers in the 19th century as they were fortifying the Western Heights.

Cowgate Cemetery, Dover (First Recording)

Cowgate Cemetery, one of Dover's oldest Cemeteries. First video for the Cemetery, will be going back for more in-depth recording of grave stones and surrounding area.

Fort Drop Redoubt, Dover

A walk around the moat of the Drop Redoubt, with the GoPro HERO 2 HD Static views of the Drop Redoubt on the Western Heights, Dover In Dec 2009 I ran up to the Drop Redoubt, it was getting dark and i wanted to capture the fort in the snow. This is what I filmed. Dover Western Heights Fort

Massive Caves on the Western Heights

On the Western Heights in Dover are these massive caves/mines. These may have been used to supply the mortar for the building of the western Heights fortifications 1800's part 1 of my video, we have to climb into the system with a rope, just to help us in. Inside we find so much graffiti in there from the mid 19th century In part 2 of my video we explore two more caves/mines to record the graffiti.

Oil Mill Caves, Dover

Oil Mills, Dover (Location 1) A look inside one of the caves along Snargate Street in Dover. Oil Mills, Dover (Location 2) Privately owned tunnels, trip with permission in 2010. Oil Mills, Dover (Location 3)

IKS Production Series 1 (Playlist)

In series 1 we talk about the 2004 productions from the tunnel exploring days. the videos and sound are cut in places, this is normal. First off we look at the Old Dover 2004 DVD, then later on in the series go into the behind the scenes, looking at the raw unedited video footage from 2004.

IKS Production Series 2

Series 2 of IKS Production, in this series we will be taking a looking into the productions from 2005 to 2006. the locations in this series are: The Gun Emplacement, St. Margaret's Bay. South Foreland Battery -Plotting room - deep shelter- magazine. South Front barracks, water storage tanks. East of Dover, DVD: Z-Rockets Battery South Foreland Battery Fan Bay Battery Underground Past, DVD: Hougham Battery Langdon hole Deep Shelter Lydden Spout Battery Ramsgate Tunnels (wind tunnel) Road of Remembrance Bunker Shorts Brothers Sea Plane Factory Tunbridge Underground Battle Headquarters And some extra rare footage from IKS Production 2005/2006

Scott's Caves, Dover

Scott's Caves, Dover location privately owned, pre-arranged 2009 trip A possible water pump for the Western Heights, 1860s? maybe much older! in ww2 the tunnels was used as a air raid shelter, with the well shaft being a emergency exit, from what i seen on the web.

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Sunday 28 December 2014

Thursday 25 December 2014

Tuesday 23 December 2014