tunnels

Further to exploring a few locations on my 'bucket list' just the day before, I was now heading to my main reason for being in Portsmouth - a permission visit tour to the Underground Headquarters of Fort Southwick. An earlier drive around the area, truly aggravated me at just how many awesome...

After gaining the grand approval from the better half, to attend a tour of Fort Southwick Underground HQ, this was a golden opportunity to check out a few other local sites which had been on my 'bucket list'. Whilst trolling through a certain explorer You tube channel, this little gem had peeked...

I was up in North Yorkshire recently being shown a few locations, and this beauty of a tunnel was on the agenda. It's pretty standard as abandoned railway tunnels go, although it does have a very nice looking air vent, not as good as the ones in Kelmarsh and Oxendon though. The main appeal is...

I don't even know how to start this report, I'm still shaking from the adrenaline...but here it goes, maybe let's get the historical facts out of the way first! In the late XVIth century the Order of the Capuchin Monks established a humble monastery on top a hill, in the outskirts of a border...

St Margaret's Z-Rocket Battery Shelter, Dover - April 2022 Z ROCKET, St. Margarets - Dover, April 2022. Contrary to popular belief...I've been told that this WAS NOT infact a Z Rocket battery... But a 4x 5.5inch Coastal Gun Battery..Apparently. there is no evidence to support it was even...

LYDDEN SPOUT : DOVER, KENT - UK MID April 2022 **WE CLIMBED THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER ** - Bottom > Top Here are some still pics from one of our latest explores. I strongly advise no one attempts to climb this cliff face as its extremely dangerous especially in wet weather. Luckily for us...

One from earlier this year.. NOT ABANDONED !! #HISTORYRESEARCH I wanted to find or find evidence of tunnels in Southend on Sea.. We already know that there are some repurposed cold war shelters and also that the EKCO Radio/Plastics site "had" extensive tunnels.. and other local tunnels are...

We decided to venture out further than usual and decided to see what we could find in Dover. This was our most favorite explore of the day and it was ALOT bigger than we had expected... The 'Esplanade' Tunnels comprise of three sections.. named Athol Guilford and Trevanion. Athol is the...

Hi all, I see a lot of posts on this place are around ten years old now so thought I would provide some newer photography with the nice fat wide angle lens. Not much new to report so this is a fairly quick report, but hopefully of interest anyway. The History There's plenty of information...

SHORTS TUNNELS KENT : JULY 2021 Attended as a guest upon invite. I will add the History blurb shortly... Please don't comment until after I have written some information about this place. I did manage to film most of it and have a 4 part youtube video covering most of the areas within.. But...

Quick bit of history: This is one of the many forts in Medway and construction started in 1808 and completed in 1812. The fort was built to run from its flanking tower Medway Tower that sat on the river right through to it's other flanking tower Maidstone Tower on Maidstone road, sadly neither...

One we have been on the hunt for and finally found. Needless to say it was thee best I've been in and so well preserved seemed to go on forever and was absolutely buzzing :D

The Standedge Tunnels are four parallel tunnels through the Pennine hills at the Standedge crossing between Marsden in West Yorkshire and Diggle in Greater Manchester in northern England. Three are railway tunnels and the other is a canal tunnel I mainly walked the two abandoned train tunnels...

Hey everyone, I used to go exploring a lot but had a pretty bad accident and now I am recovered I want to get back out there! One of my favourite places I have explored were the tunnels underneath Beacon Hill Fort but I think I last went there about 8 years ago. Has anyone been recently? Just...

Great local explore the other night at Fort Pitt. After many years of researching and going out searching for an entry point, we had received a message about the location. The fort itself was designed with red brick walls, a 15ft moat (defence ditch) and a bastion on each edge of the fort. It...

History: Clapham Storm Relief, or more commonly dubbed "Lucky Charms Drain" makes up just one of the many underground sewer networks across the capital, and was constructed during the late 1800s. During the 19th century, Sir Joseph Bazalgette designed the modern-day sewer system, in response to...

History The Tower Subway, is the second oldest tunnel which runs beneath the Thames. Construction of the tunnel first began in 1869, and continued until it's completion date in late 1870. Tower Subway, would be the first of it's kind to be lined using cast iron, as opposed to bricks, which had...

History: The North Downs, also known as the chalk spine of Kent, has a long history of water supply going back centuries. The downs itself, stretches all the way from Farnham in Surrey, right across to Dover in Kent, and is of course entirely made up of a chalk base. The chalk itself has a...

I've been looking into the history of Shoeburyness, and heard the story/myth about the RED BRICK HOUSE at the end of Elm rd. The story goes that there was a tunnel that lead down from Red Brick House down to the shore and it was either used for smuggling in things, another story is that there is...

History: After the completion of the famous Battersea Power Station in 1933, 4 sets of tunnels were bored under the Thames. The first is known as "Battersea Steam Tunnel", which with the clue being in the title, was built to act as a surplus heat discharge outlet, as even when all 4 of...