The History
Researching the house and bunker etc i came across some articles.
The house was applied to become a care home to house 76 residents but was rejected. At the time council planners rejected the application on the grounds that it was an `inappropriate development within the metropolitan green belt.` Villagers were concerned about the damage caused by the development. Planning officers rejected the applications saying "The harm to the landscape and character of the area, by virtue of the scale of the development, amount, layout and site coverage would not be outweighed by the identified benefits of the scheme" Now more than twelve months on the developers have submitted a revised planning application with a number of `significant changes’.
Mark Wood, who lived there for 32 years, said: “I helped my father build the so called bunker. He was slightly eccentric and was always doing so called projects.
“The bunker was built in the 1980s out of two 20ft shipping containers and the roof was made of old Tyler concrete gutters. The so called control room was a printing plate with all the light switches cut into it. Sadly it is not circa second world war.”
The Explore
Hearing about the ‘Bunker and Swimming Pool’ very often I decided to google and do some research to try find the location myself.
Driving nearly two hours, we parked in the hospital opposite the bunker itself and made our way up through the long shrubbery and into the woods, getting lost for a good 10mins we finally found the fence I had been told about, climbing over we made our way into the site, taking pictures of the cars in the garages and onto the bunker was the exciting part.
Climbing down and inside it didn’t look very exciting but deeper we went and I was amazed at what was left behind, old tv’s, signal boxes, paperwork, beds, sleeping bags, food and drinks, even aftershave! The amount of work that must have taken place is amazing, being my first Bunker explore, I loved it. Now out of the Bunker and to the Swimming pool, there’s only one reason explorers go to the swimming pool and that would be the Amazing Artwork by ‘Voyder’ a recognised artist globally.
Unfortunately seeing pictures and hearing the bad news of the graffiti being covered, I can only imagine this is because of vandals and people braking into the main house that happens to be alarmed! We made our way out and our two hour long journey home awaited us!
Researching the house and bunker etc i came across some articles.
The house was applied to become a care home to house 76 residents but was rejected. At the time council planners rejected the application on the grounds that it was an `inappropriate development within the metropolitan green belt.` Villagers were concerned about the damage caused by the development. Planning officers rejected the applications saying "The harm to the landscape and character of the area, by virtue of the scale of the development, amount, layout and site coverage would not be outweighed by the identified benefits of the scheme" Now more than twelve months on the developers have submitted a revised planning application with a number of `significant changes’.
Mark Wood, who lived there for 32 years, said: “I helped my father build the so called bunker. He was slightly eccentric and was always doing so called projects.
“The bunker was built in the 1980s out of two 20ft shipping containers and the roof was made of old Tyler concrete gutters. The so called control room was a printing plate with all the light switches cut into it. Sadly it is not circa second world war.”
The Explore
Hearing about the ‘Bunker and Swimming Pool’ very often I decided to google and do some research to try find the location myself.
Driving nearly two hours, we parked in the hospital opposite the bunker itself and made our way up through the long shrubbery and into the woods, getting lost for a good 10mins we finally found the fence I had been told about, climbing over we made our way into the site, taking pictures of the cars in the garages and onto the bunker was the exciting part.
Climbing down and inside it didn’t look very exciting but deeper we went and I was amazed at what was left behind, old tv’s, signal boxes, paperwork, beds, sleeping bags, food and drinks, even aftershave! The amount of work that must have taken place is amazing, being my first Bunker explore, I loved it. Now out of the Bunker and to the Swimming pool, there’s only one reason explorers go to the swimming pool and that would be the Amazing Artwork by ‘Voyder’ a recognised artist globally.
Unfortunately seeing pictures and hearing the bad news of the graffiti being covered, I can only imagine this is because of vandals and people braking into the main house that happens to be alarmed! We made our way out and our two hour long journey home awaited us!
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