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In June 1940, almost the entire then population of Alderney of 1400 was evacuated to Britain. Most went on the official evacuation boats sent from mainland Britain. Some, however, decided to make their own way, mostly via Guernsey, but due to the impending occupation many found themselves unable...

Fort Tourgis is an extensive fortification in Alderney to the north west of St Anne forming part of the Fortifications of Alderney. Fort Tourgis, completed in 1855, was designed to accommodate 346 men and was originally to be the largest of Alderney's Victorian forts. It was also designed to...

Alderney is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is 3 miles long and 1 and a 1⁄2 miles wide with a population of just 2000. This reports follows on from my coverage of the Hohlgangsanlage tunnels on the island...

Hello Explorers! Four moths ago me and my mate went out to explore another ROC bunker that we found in Buckminster, unfortunately it was all sealed and looked like well maintained. Later on we found out about a guy named Jed Jaggard and this is his bunker. We did contact with him and arranged a...

Hohlgangsanlage are a number of tunnels constructed in Jersey by occupying German forces during the occupation of Jersey of World War Two. The Germans intended for these bunkers to protect troops and equipment from aerial bombing and to act as fortifications in their own right. The word...

Hello everyone! As you may know Earnley Education Centre has sparked new interest in the area of Chichester. I decided to take full advantage of this and take a trip with @Smidgey88 to explore it before the kids took over. And what can I say! it was much bigger and more interesting than I was...

Just an update to the Mother Country to let you know that over the last year I have converted a heap of Cave Clan radio interviews as well as the 2017 ABC Cave Clan documentary. The radio interviews might be a bit slow unless you have a connection to The Cave Clan or you're interested in...

This one is for real sea dogs..my poor missus suffered all the way to this place! Both Steep Holm and Flat Holm were fortified in the 1860s as a defence against invasion. They form part of a line of defences, known as Palmerston Forts, built across the channel to protect the approaches to...

Pontins Holiday Village. The site has been abandoned for around 20 years or so now and is due to be demolished so i had to go for one last vist before they tare it down. There are supposedly a few rumours flying around about why it was closed down, the most reasonable one being there was an...

Been waiting to do this one for a while but due to the fact its such a trek id kind put it off. But as the initial plan for the evening fell through i thought f**k it and headed off into the night. The walk was even more tedious than i expected taking about 35-40 mins just to get there. Turned...

After spending a day in Dover visiting the usual suspects we decided to have a look at something different. To be honest I'd be wanting to see as cross channel gun position for a while and now was the chance. There were Two 15 in guns at the Wanstone Battery in Dover they were known as Clem...

Since I first started wanting to see this, everyone who'd done it before told me how shit and muddy/wet it is. Actually, considering I'd left my wellies in the car, it wasn't too bad. Or maybe it was, I was just expecting a lot worse. It was worth it though, especially for the history...

Visited with Space Invader and Fort Knox Zero And for some History; Many proposals had been made for a Channel Tunnel dating as far back as Napoleonic times and in 1875 serious planning began on both sides of the Channel. However, early attempts on the English side were not very successful and...

Visited with Space Invader and Fort Knox Zero And for some History; Many proposals had been made for a Channel Tunnel dating as far back as Napoleonic times and in 1875 serious planning began on both sides of the Channel. However, early attempts on the English side were not very successful...

Visited with Silver Rainbow and fortknox o a little history... There had been numerous proposals for a tunnel under the channel throughout the 19th Century including one by Napoleon, but the first serious attempt to build a tunnel came with an Act of Parliament in 1875 authorising the...