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Factory Shelters - August 2015

SlimJim

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Explored with Conrad and The Vampiric Squid.

After a monumental fail trying to get into a local Fort Knox and dragging The Vampiric Squid all the way up from Hampshire on his hairdrier, I decided it would be a good idea to do something that had been on my list for a long time.

I'll keep it short and sweet because there's little to no history on the shelters themselves, so here's a nice set of air raid shelters from a factory that made cable during the war...

We'd been up all night and hadn't had any sleep since the previous night. We'd been on the go for about 5 hours by the time we got to the tunnels. Here's Squid passed out. I've been winding him up with this picture all afternoon by posting it everywhere! I envy him for being able to sleep anywhere he drops :D

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There's some pretty nice stuff knocking about including this...

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And these lovely old Elsans...

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There's tons of mint and near mint original signs on the walls to titillate too!

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On to some tunnel shots...

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The tunnels themselves are actually quite plain, but it's the size of the place, quality of construction and how well preserved they are that is actually the icing on the cake.

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Group shot, looking a bit like some sort of crap boyband.

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More pics on my Flickr.

Here's a bit of video for it. Please excuse my excitement! :p

Thanks for looking!

 

Lenston

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Looks pretty cool this, nice pictures (y)

 

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Thats awesome mate, loving the mobile shitter and the light in that tunnel shot :)

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nicely done mate..at 3:04 in your video it looks like someone's smashed the wall down..If its the same spot as the hole at the top then its really not called for,wasnt hard for people to get over..nice report tho mate

 

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Nice one, the addition of the video is great :D

 

TheVampiricSquid

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I think i've seen that picture of me on just about every urbex forum/website going today:errr:

 

SlimJim

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I think i've seen that picture of me on just about every urbex forum/website going today:errr:
You love the attention, you spicy bit of man chicken!

 

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Cheers for driving and explaining about the toilets and other stuff I wouldn't have known about! Really enjoyed this place and how untouched it was.

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SlimJim

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No worries mate :D I really enjoyed it, thanks for providing it and coming along!

 
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