chalk mines

SHORTS TUNNELS KENT : JULY 2021 Attended as a guest upon invite. I will add the History blurb shortly... Please don't comment until after I have written some information about this place. I did manage to film most of it and have a 4 part youtube video covering most of the areas within.. But...

Norwich has a total of 19 mines, mostly scattered around locations just in or outside the city center. Mined for chalk and flint from the Middle Ages until the beginning of WW2, initially the chalk was excavated from an open hole but then tunnels were started from the sides of the pits, as the...

Promised i would put a new report up as my last photos were terrible. Visited along with a few city rooftops with 2 friends on a warm day in the city. nothings changed their apart from some small collapses on the edges. probably my last visit here as the buildings on the front of the site are...

I will preface this by saying that I'm new to both Urbex and photography, therefore some of my photos are crap. The chalk mine served as an air raid shelter during the Second World War - it's built into a hillside on the north side of the city and has been around since at least the 1700's. My...

Hello everyone, recently visited the Rosary Road chalk mines with pawelR and a non member. underground is not usually my thing, but as it was another boring Saturday i thought i would try something new. was a nice chilled out explore that was completed by a train journey home looking like a...

Visited with Speed. On a hella rainy day in May, we trekked to Norwich and through slippery woods full of ivy. I fell over 4 times, got stabbed in the arm with a branch and swallowed a mouth full of peaty dirt. The mines are small but apparently there's shed loads more of them so game on for...

East Anglia is pretty sparse when it comes to the underground, we have a few exceptional cold war bunkers but not much in the way of mining. Norwich is the exception, the city is (supposedly!) littered with chalk and flint mines dating back as far as the 12th century. Most have been back filled...