To be honest I've got a bit of a thing for lighting shots the way it looks when you're down there, in the pitch black with a torch. Some of those shots had decent, even lighting and I ended up using a bunch of radial and gradient filters etc to fuck em up when I was developing the raw
Weird eh? I could come up with a bunch of art-school wankbollocks about how lighting a shot this way pulls you into the scene and makes you feel a personal connection instead of simply documenting the location. But really, I just think it looks cool
Cheers, I totally forgot to do the shafts! There's a little bit up top that I need to add as well.
The tunnels were actively used at the end of the war. My mother wheeled me there with a cardboard baby crib gas mask, from Hinderton Road. The tunnels were refitted in 1960 ish as a nuclear fallout shelter. Part was equipped as a hospital. My cousin's firm renewed all the electrics. It was then sealed up. You wouldn't have found any graffiti as it wasn't the thing to do then, any more than one would defile a hospital today. I lived on the top of the quarry, my parents until 1985 isn. People kept pigs in Holborn Square which would escape frequently. Nothing funnier than a load of drunks from the numerous hostelries trying to catch piglets on Old Chester Road. Fortunately ittle traffic at all.
