Report - Ashley rd deep shelter - Epsom - Sept 17

[pigeonboy]

Ashley road deep shelter

Visited with @Gromr123

History
the land was requisitioned by Surrey County Council on 8 February 1941 for the purpose of building a shelter costing £26,658 (about £1.3 million in today's money)
It was completed in january of 1942. However there is no way that such a large site was constructed in such a small time and with said costs from scratch, there is alot of evidence suggesting that somehing already existed here, supposedly a masoleum, or a necropolis. The fact that surrey council claim to have built this from scratch when they clearly havent only furthers the point. It was also described as a 'white elephant' by WW2 survivors, meaning that its completion was after the main bombing stage by the germans, essentially becoming a useless bunker.
It was rented out by an airsoft company around 2007 for their 'war-games' , the site remains littered in little white pellets, quite a nuisance really

Photographs
My first ever underground explore! It certainly lived up to its expectations, i did my best for the photographs despite not being equipped with a tripod and such, thank you @Gromr123 for lending me his torch

Blast wall

Canteen area

1 of the 2 concealed walls

Toilets

Thanks for reading!

https://imgur.com/a/nxKaf
https://imgur.com/a/kEsVc
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[Wevsky]

Good enough report there mate,maybe not put the exact date visited in the write up which shows the entrance which obviously has at some point been "opened" dont want you getting accused of opening it up ,so maybe keep the entrance shots off in future

 

[pigeonboy]

There is evidence of visits before ours, post revised none-the-less, thank you

 

[WildBoyz]

Looks good Considering you didn't use a tripod, your snaps aren't too bad.

 

[pigeonboy]

Looks good Considering you didn't use a tripod, your snaps aren't too bad.

Thank you very much

 

[UrbanZ]

Your first deep shelter done ay mate, it was this one that gave me the bug for them.

Nice report and some good snaps

 

[pigeonboy]

it was this one that gave me the bug for them.

Mutual feelings there definately going to do more

 

[lesbub]

Good Stuff.

 

[Grom]

Nice one, photos came out nicely considering no tripod! Was a nice little explore.

 

[Kidney]

Was last open for a bit in February I think then got sealed again. Didn't take people too long. I'm surprised they managed to seal the door last time. It was buggered.