Re: Excellent piece & New pictures on BT Anchor Exchange in Birmingham by The B'ham P
hello there, im new here, but i have joined to try and help out with some anchor myths , if some of you know more than you say im sorry to bore you. if you have ever been inside then you know im for real................its stripped bear inside at great cost,, aspestose removed. all the comunications stuff gone, generators gone, kitchen gone, map room gone fuel tanks emptyed and filled with concreat, i seem to remember the water tank was removed or one of them, there were landscapes painted on the dineing room walls there gone.... all the old extraction system gone,.......the essex street entrance concreated over and built on a very large rectangular manhole covers a nearby emergency egress locked from inside........give up on thoughts of finding a way in ive been there and there are motion detectors everywhere .....its now fully automated and ran from elsewhere its just full of a mass of fiber optic cables........i like i think one of your members have stood next to the huge concreat slab that would have seal one of the main shafts it was on rollers and operated by cables..... this holds a small mystery for me because even standing there , under the lional street shaft i didnt work out till later where the controles were for this ......if you know then you were there......i will answer a few questions if i can but would never let on how, when or why i was in there and i will give know clues on entry, trust me you aint getting in.... slag me off if you like i have pictures and some souieners i may post some but not for a while.........pumps run 24 7......one of the new pictures shows a ladder that goes down through the floor, i didnt go down there but i looked , it was running with water and seemed to be drainage of a sort. at the bottom of the air intake (the short wide one, not the tall one ) there is, or was i large wall with several fans in, this would have provided the possitive air pressure after going through the filtration system.(the doors were blue on the filter room, metal with an obsevation window). there are many levels, some are made by halving a large tunnel. some are tunnels or rooms in there own rite, before the rip out there was a red room and blue room full of comunication stuff, one of the new pics is the generater room (staires at the back).............the map on the sub brit page is only a small part of the complex, i heard the other week that there were 5 shafts, from an interview with a irish builder i think.......ive seen a map with shaft 12 on so the myth continues....most of the shafts i know of go into buildings and thats where i will leave that..... the fuel tanks for the genorater were filled up from out side the building opp the tower the one with the crane in.....the limit on the crane is 5 tones and every thing that went in went down with that crane the shaft here is around 100 ft deep give or take at the bottom is a large blue blast door rectangular in shape. there are stairs there with small ridged blast doors on the way down. on the subject of blast doors there were many includeing some large round ones that were domed in shape, they were light green in colour................the tall shaft that is on lional street is just that. when you look up from inside it is just a hollow brick tower there is a thick wire mesh over the metal grates at the top,, its part of the place with the crane the whole complex is vast and covers much more of the city centers underground than i had any idea off untill i gazed upon the maps, if i remember it was dug from digbeth among other places does any one remember the road that went nowwhere that was between the road from digbeth to the bull ring. it just stopped at a wall im sure machinery was taken in that way........more as i remember...oh yeah... the floor was wet down there sometimes, the floors had a sump in the middle but there was now sign of any flooding above an inch or so.....there were phones on the walls every 100 ft or so in some of the tunnels but they were dissconected years ago there was a lift at the bottom of one of the shafts i tryed to open the door but it was long bolted or welded shut (same colour blue as the filter room doors) must have had a lot of blue paint going free.........
