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During the Second World War, Wigan was a target for the Nazi bombing raids, due to a munitions factory in Beech Hill and a Steel Mill/Iron works located near Mesnes Park. A collection of tunnels and Air Raid shelters were built under the park and remain there today. These were built to house the workers and local residents and were big enough to hold a couple of hundred people.
2 local Students were campaigning to try & get the Shelters preserved but the Developers of the Pagefield Buildings have scuppered any preservation plans as the foundations for the new development encompass the land occupied by the shelters.
Solo mooch after a weekend in the Manchester area. Credit to Coolboyslim for the info, (especially as i criticized his pics from here previously ...sorry mate
Although he did have me wandering about the wrong area for a while although it allowed me to see lots of interesting local Wildlife on the way in & on the way out.
It was a hasty exit as a gang of youths were fucking about on the entry point & the last thing i want is to be cornered somewhere in the dark with my gear while God knows whats going on at the only exit point!
As i was very tired i found it quite disorientating as it"s all very similar as you"d expect & as all the exit signs lead to blockages i ended up being a headless chicken for a while trying to remember what piles of rust were in which corridor was not my forte lol
Unfortunately very little of the original features remain inside as you"d expect for it"s age and the amount of traffic it"s had. All in all though a nice little mooch. Always a pain having highly reflective concrete with very dark floor
Leaking White powder from a rusty drum
2 local Students were campaigning to try & get the Shelters preserved but the Developers of the Pagefield Buildings have scuppered any preservation plans as the foundations for the new development encompass the land occupied by the shelters.
Solo mooch after a weekend in the Manchester area. Credit to Coolboyslim for the info, (especially as i criticized his pics from here previously ...sorry mate
Although he did have me wandering about the wrong area for a while although it allowed me to see lots of interesting local Wildlife on the way in & on the way out.It was a hasty exit as a gang of youths were fucking about on the entry point & the last thing i want is to be cornered somewhere in the dark with my gear while God knows whats going on at the only exit point!
As i was very tired i found it quite disorientating as it"s all very similar as you"d expect & as all the exit signs lead to blockages i ended up being a headless chicken for a while trying to remember what piles of rust were in which corridor was not my forte lol
Unfortunately very little of the original features remain inside as you"d expect for it"s age and the amount of traffic it"s had. All in all though a nice little mooch. Always a pain having highly reflective concrete with very dark floor
Leaking White powder from a rusty drum
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