Farleigh Down Tunnel - 29/10/07

[Oxygen Thief]

Visited with CatfishCKY.

Armed with a bunch of pictures and notes we headed off to this place to try and understand it a bit better, we weren't disappointed.

Pictures from the loading sheds and marshalling yard...

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/cjwinternet/Farleigh%20Down%20291007/IMG_0374.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/cjwinternet/Farleigh%20Down%20291007/IMG_0377.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/cjwinternet/Farleigh%20Down%20291007/IMG_0380.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/cjwinternet/Farleigh%20Down%20291007/IMG_0385.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/cjwinternet/Farleigh%20Down%20291007/IMG_0395.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/cjwinternet/Farleigh%20Down%20291007/IMG_0402.jpg

Well, just when you think you've seen all there is to see at a place... instead of charging up the slope thinking of nothing, something caught my eye... a stretch of wall covered with WW2 graffiti, loads of it. here's a few samples...

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/cjwinternet/Farleigh%20Down%20291007/IMG_0419.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/cjwinternet/Farleigh%20Down%20291007/IMG_0421.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/cjwinternet/Farleigh%20Down%20291007/IMG_0423.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/cjwinternet/Farleigh%20Down%20291007/IMG_0424.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/cjwinternet/Farleigh%20Down%20291007/IMG_0427.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/cjwinternet/Farleigh%20Down%20291007/IMG_0429.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b266/cjwinternet/Farleigh%20Down%20291007/IMG_0431.jpg

...it's well worth a look. Notes from people referring to the Engineers, Pioneers, Dunkirk, the BEF, and lots more.

[CatfishCKY]

Oh mate, there was tons of WW2 graffiti, it was impossible to document it all really!
A couple of pictures I've taken
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j305/nikiflynn13/100_2351.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j305/nikiflynn13/100_2353.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j305/nikiflynn13/100_2354.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j305/nikiflynn13/100_2355.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j305/nikiflynn13/100_2357.jpg

A picture taken by me with OT's Powershot G7 :)
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j305/nikiflynn13/IMG_2314.jpg

Some of the more interesting graff:
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j305/nikiflynn13/100_2359.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j305/nikiflynn13/100_2362.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j305/nikiflynn13/100_2364.jpg