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Nice little explore done during a recce with Conrad (think he just joined up here). Certainly something very different and I do love my underground sites, very much! We're blessed up here with a wealth of tunnels of which I'm very grateful I didn't get a huge amount of quality shots, so I've whacked in the Guildford Shaft down the road that Konrad showed me too as a bonus, I hope that's cool!
Here's the caves:
There's history of them being used during the war as an air raid shelter, with a woman getting killed by a chalk fall when a bomb went off above, as she was trying to reach the shelter. I'm pretty sure that they pre-date the war however and were probably built during the mid 1800s because the well served barracks at the top of the cliffs. They were used in later years as a workshop and have bits of bobs laying about, including hovercraft parts and what look to be fibreglass moulds. Chalk falls meant getting in was certainly not for the portly or non-limber!
One of the vaults inside.
Vault by Slim Jim, on Flickr
Closeup of the opening into the cliff face.
Dusty by Slim Jim, on Flickr
Conrad trying to get a shot looking up the well, which proved to be quite difficult.
C-Man by Slim Jim, on Flickr
The other vault, nearer the entrance.
Infrared Cowboy by Slim Jim, on Flickr
On to the shaft...
Nice old door.
Shaft Doors by Slim Jim, on Flickr
Looks to be some WW2 workings or reinforcements in the shaft.
WW2 Workings by Slim Jim, on Flickr
Bit of video for the shaft. Notable moments include me bashing my head and also sliding down the slope on my bum like a 5 year old!
Thanks for looking!
Here's the caves:
There's history of them being used during the war as an air raid shelter, with a woman getting killed by a chalk fall when a bomb went off above, as she was trying to reach the shelter. I'm pretty sure that they pre-date the war however and were probably built during the mid 1800s because the well served barracks at the top of the cliffs. They were used in later years as a workshop and have bits of bobs laying about, including hovercraft parts and what look to be fibreglass moulds. Chalk falls meant getting in was certainly not for the portly or non-limber!
One of the vaults inside.
Closeup of the opening into the cliff face.
Conrad trying to get a shot looking up the well, which proved to be quite difficult.
The other vault, nearer the entrance.
On to the shaft...
Nice old door.
Looks to be some WW2 workings or reinforcements in the shaft.
Bit of video for the shaft. Notable moments include me bashing my head and also sliding down the slope on my bum like a 5 year old!
