ww1

I had this place pinned for a few years after seeing about it on youtube in 2016 but could not work out how to get there, then finally after seeing a few of my friends go there turns out it is really easy to go do ( it is on a public walking route), we thought we take a walk to the old ww1...

Abutting the banks of the Thames, resident there for the past 68 years, is a very special concrete barge. Launched in 1918 at Brentford, it was THE first completed of the concrete ships built in WW1 in response to the loss of merchant shipping due to the UBoat campaign combined with an acute...

Feel free to take this post with a pinch of salt. Not sure if I believe this myself. RAF Bircham Newton, now known as CITB, was a WW1 and WW2 airfield, which in the 1950s changed hands from the MoD to the CITB. Rumour has it, there are tunnels under the roads. This is the part I'm skeptical...

Dont know much about it.

May 21 We finally got round to visiting the wreck of (named UB122) although the name was actually another vessel and has just been widely associated with this particular wreck. At the end of WW1, at least 100 of Germany’s U-boats (submarines) were confiscated, and towed IMG_0699over to here to...

Exploring WW1 - WW2 Laboratories Dorest #Abandoned #Dorest

After causing a colossal upset in the incredibly friendly urbex community, I've finally decided to release the photos from our infamous jape... On a particularly warm Octobers afternoon, myself and one of my close mates decided to "enter" Dover's gem, and what we came across is something we'll...

History There are multiple theories as to why Epsom deep shelter was constructed. A report by Surrey County Council states that the air raid shelter was built in 1941 during The Second World War, costing £26,658 and taking only one year to erect. The shelter made use of its 4.5 acres of land...

Check out the WW1 tunnel map... That's incredible. I wonder if there's any traces on the ground? The frontline areas seem to have a small town on top of them now unfortunately. Full story here... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-30967231

First heard about these forerunners to radar on Coast a couple years ago and after Reading Penguin's Report on the one in Redcar I realised there's one near me in Sunderland - I assumed they were just on the south coast. As you'll see from the pictures the Sunderland one is badly overgrown...