Avon Gorge Firing Range - Bristol

[mr scott]

This is my first report - so either go gently with me or tell it like it is!!

After several years, I got back into the underground Firing range in the Avon Gorge!

Having been used in the past as a railway tunnel, WW2 air raid shelter, then finally as a shooting range for the '11 Glos. Rifle club', the place has been abandoned for the last 20 years.
Access has been hit and miss for the last 10 years or so, but I won't go into how we got in, or how we used to get in.

This is the first time i've mostly used long exposures and torch light underground - normally I use flash - so I hope you like the outcome from this!!

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[dennis]

theres a switch at one end that turns on lights throughout the whole tunnel. was quite a shock to be hin such a run down space with working lights.

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