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Im in a caving club but they dont really do mines which is more what im interested in tbh ive been down a fair few around south Wales when I lived there and some some urbex around bristol like temple pipe, but I've been fascinated by the bath area mining history for a while, got a survey map...

Great Postland Railway Station - Signal Box History Following the amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway, The Eastern Union Railways and a handful of smaller firms in 1962, the newly formed Great Eastern Railway would become a dominant force across its section of East Anglia. Despite...

Hi, this my first post so sorry if not much info, I drive past hear every day and finally took a look, it's north of Barmouth and can be seen from the road, just past the norbar on the left, This pillbox overlooks the railway and the western approach from the sea. It has a flat roof and...

Just drove through Box and down White Ennox Lane on my way home and it is crawling with police, dogs and people fully kitted out in caving gear. I recon some one got them selfs in trouble, or maybe it's just training, but it was busy as fook there a few hours ago.

Mining operations for 'Bath stone' started here as early as the roman occupation on Britian in 43AD and the mine is part of the 'Bath and bradford on avon bats speacial area of conversation'. Wiltshire is known for its historical stone mining significance and this the largest underground stone...

This listed building finally closing this weekend - to think we had a permission visit in the late 1970s https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/new-street-stations-signal-box-25814183

History: This mine has been worked over centuries right back to Roman times and extends many mile. Stone had been quarried from Box Hill since medieval times using open pits but the extent of the stone was unknown until Isambard Kingdom Brunel came in to town. Brunel built his tunnel through the...

In 1879 the Great Northern and Great Eastern railways presented Parliamentary proposals to construct a line from Spalding to Lincoln, completing a 123-mile freight route between Cambridge and Doncaster. Their intention was to tap into the profitable market for coal movements into East Anglia...

So this a little different one and I have not seen a single report on this on this site either - Box hill fort is public and is owned by the national trust, so today we went up to box hill for a bit of a family day out :) but couldn't help mooching around the fort - unfortunately, you can't...

History. Kingsdown Quarry is commonly referred to as Swan Mine. This is a small bath stone quarry lying under the hillside along the road from Bathford to Kingsdown. The Explore. Visited with a non-member. Making our way to the Swan Inn having parked up relatively close. We set up to the...

When on a bike ride we were in a farmland area of sulham woods,reading,Berkshire looking in and at pillar boxes from WW2. Trying to find an entrance we discovered a manageable hole to get through. Luckily we had our phones and shone a light in the dark room. Noticing there was a stood up wheel...

On Sunday the 6th of October 2019, I was meeting up with friends at the Row barge pub on station road in Woolhampton, when I was pulling into the car I noticed the Type 24 FW3/24 pillbox located at the exit to the Row barge pub carpark, after I parked I took some photos on my iPhone 6, and not...

Not sure what type of pill box this is, but this is located next to old rectory road. This pill box is in very good condition with 3 of the metal shutters, 2 still attached to original hinges and one that is broken off its hinges also there is a loop hole located next to the doorway

This pill box is a FW3/28A located in a clump of trees in shillingford next to the Thames, this has lots of trash mainly needles, tents, bottles, cans littered inside and out of the pill box

Monkton Farleigh Down old ammunition tunnel in Wiltshire, This location has been done to death but I guess I could add my own experience of it. Had a long drive there and bumped into some builders just before the convenient parking area (quite a lot of broken glass though), I was worried they...