Dee
June 16th, 2007, 08:55
Hi all.
While coming back from Portsmouth last night, I thought I'd have a quick look around the southern portals to the fuel store under Portsdown hill to see if anything had changed.
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=50.855699&lon=-1.114824&z=19.4&r=0&src=ggl
http://www.portsdown-tunnels.org.uk/fuel_bunkers/fuel_bunkers_p1.html
Unsurprisingly, nothing had at the easily accessable one so I wondered over to the other enclosure to find it was open... (to an extent).
The undergrowth is fairly thick inside so arkward to move around (especially in sandals) but I managed to get a few pics:
http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk/gallery.php/UE/Portsdown%20fuel%20portals/DSC00199.JPG?height=192 (http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk/gallery.php/UE/Portsdown%20fuel%20portals/DSC00199.JPG?page=1)
http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk/gallery.php/UE/Portsdown%20fuel%20portals/DSC00200.JPG?width=256 (http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk/gallery.php/UE/Portsdown%20fuel%20portals/DSC00200.JPG?page=1)
http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk/gallery.php/UE/Portsdown%20fuel%20portals/DSC00202.JPG?height=192 (http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk/gallery.php/UE/Portsdown%20fuel%20portals/DSC00202.JPG?page=1)
http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk/gallery.php/UE/Portsdown%20fuel%20portals/
Sadly the doors are still tightly locked but I would love to get a look inside.
The ventilation tube to the top left has metal brackets welded over it and to a smaller ring around the base so there is no chance of entry that way.
As per the big sign at the entrance, this is still "secret" MOD land so I was a bit nervous. This wasn't helped by seeing a HUGE police car sat in the road near where I'd parked at the end of the housing estate :(
Luckily they turned around and drove off slowly when I returned to the car :)
While coming back from Portsmouth last night, I thought I'd have a quick look around the southern portals to the fuel store under Portsdown hill to see if anything had changed.
http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=50.855699&lon=-1.114824&z=19.4&r=0&src=ggl
http://www.portsdown-tunnels.org.uk/fuel_bunkers/fuel_bunkers_p1.html
Unsurprisingly, nothing had at the easily accessable one so I wondered over to the other enclosure to find it was open... (to an extent).
The undergrowth is fairly thick inside so arkward to move around (especially in sandals) but I managed to get a few pics:
http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk/gallery.php/UE/Portsdown%20fuel%20portals/DSC00199.JPG?height=192 (http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk/gallery.php/UE/Portsdown%20fuel%20portals/DSC00199.JPG?page=1)
http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk/gallery.php/UE/Portsdown%20fuel%20portals/DSC00200.JPG?width=256 (http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk/gallery.php/UE/Portsdown%20fuel%20portals/DSC00200.JPG?page=1)
http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk/gallery.php/UE/Portsdown%20fuel%20portals/DSC00202.JPG?height=192 (http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk/gallery.php/UE/Portsdown%20fuel%20portals/DSC00202.JPG?page=1)
http://personal.earlsoft.co.uk/gallery.php/UE/Portsdown%20fuel%20portals/
Sadly the doors are still tightly locked but I would love to get a look inside.
The ventilation tube to the top left has metal brackets welded over it and to a smaller ring around the base so there is no chance of entry that way.
As per the big sign at the entrance, this is still "secret" MOD land so I was a bit nervous. This wasn't helped by seeing a HUGE police car sat in the road near where I'd parked at the end of the housing estate :(
Luckily they turned around and drove off slowly when I returned to the car :)