deep shelter

1. The History The town of St.Margaret’s at Cliffe is in located in the English county of Kent. a few miles up the coast from Dover. A short distance to the west of the village is situated the WW2 gun emplacements, underground shelters and battle HQs of the South Foreland battery. On...

Continuing my journey into urbex in 2025, after exploring north weald redoubt, my next weekend explore was Coulsdon deep as it seemed easily accessible. History Coulsdon Deep Shelter, also known as Brighton Road Deep Shelter, was built during World War II to protect residents from air raids...

Ok everyone I'm not going to ramble on about this one as I'll just be regurgitating everything that's already been said by anyone who's been here. We found it on our 3rd attempt with huge thanks to Doozer. Anyway enough from me enjoy sum pics instead.

Thought we would have a look last night. Waders on and in we went...... yeah it gets pretty deep half way through.... so only a couple of pics. explored with @Stimpakman Bit of history. Between 1940 and 1941 a network of tunnels was excavated sixty feet below Hargate Forest on the south...

Hope Cove was a World War II radar station. In the early 1950s it was revamped as part of the RAF’s ROTOR air defence scheme. It was one of five stations equipped with a type R6 (semi-sunk) bunker. The others were Hack Green, Langtoft, St. Twynells and Treleaver. In the late 1950s the site was...

One from the depths of the Hard Drive, visited an age ago with an old mate from University. Quite a cool explore as it was split over three sections, an old gun club, the old deep shelter and an old railway tunnel. Complete with electrics. History: Originally known as the Portnalls Number One...

Hi all, I see a lot of posts on this place are around ten years old now so thought I would provide some newer photography with the nice fat wide angle lens. Not much new to report so this is a fairly quick report, but hopefully of interest anyway. The History There's plenty of information...

Visited with @Chloe Explores and @Nightfox Our second explore on our afternoon of underground stuff. Myself, Chloe and Zoe did visit a few days previously but it was really dark and piddling down with rain so we decided not to go in. I have been wanting to go in here for quite some time now...

Coulsdon Deep Shelter History Built in 1941 under the Cane Hill Lunatic Asylum, the Shelter was built to serve as a shelter for residents, staff and locals during air raids. After the war it was used by Cox, Hargreaves and Thompson LTD, a company that made optical equipment and lenses for...

Back in February 2018 we did all off lyden spout - Magazine room - plotting room - Mess office - Deep shelter It was one cold February morning and we just met up with are friend that live in Dover , and to start of the day we done lydden spout area as I haven’t done that part of Dover at...

4th time lucky with editing this report ! iv finally got some times to get round and upload some decent reports to the site from other the years , this one a bit more local ! that right good old Dover ! Over the years iv done a good 40 plus locations around Dover but don’t worry not gonna post...

seeing this place is making it round ! I though I’ll upload some photos from 2018 sorry if I already done a report on this place . The explore : well this going back a few years ! Back to March 2018 we took my best friend @WilsonTheHuman to her first ever underground explore ! I can’t even...

This large public air raid shelter is one of four which were proposed and built by Surrey Council at the beginning of WW2. After the war, the shelter was used by a lense manufacturing company and later as a garage, and most of the internal fixings and equipment seem to date from around this...

William Thomas Henley was born in Midhurst, Sussex in 1814 and started his working life as a porter and docker working in London. Through force of character, hard work and by educating himself in the sciences, Henley was later able to found his own business. He took an active interest in new...

Around the time of WW2 Surrey County Council commissioned the building of four deep shelters, Coulsdon Deep Shelter was the fourth and was built within the grounds of Cane Hill Asylum. After the war, the shelter was purchased by Cox, Hargreaves and Thomson, Limited who specialised in the...