real time web analytics
Report - - Winchelsea tunnels - july 2011 | Underground Sites | 28DaysLater.co.uk

Report - Winchelsea tunnels - july 2011

Hide this ad by donating or subscribing !

PeZ

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
Moving swiftly on - since this place being around the corner we decided this place was best.

Again, I'd like to say a quick thanks to hoppymat for driving, and to his bird for Batteries and Assisting also both of you's for being my tunnel lighting bitches

so enough with the intro -

These tunnels, in the former Winchelsea Quarry, were used during WW2 as air raid shelters. They were constructed in the form of four parallel corridors with two intersecting passages. There were four original entrances in the quarry and two more which spur off from a junction at the opposite end of the tunnel. The quarry entrances are now used as workshops by the company which owns the tunnels and the other two entrances have been sealed. One was located behind the Westmount building and the other was located in another chalk pit in Tower Hamlets, where the houses of 'The Abbots' road are now located. According to ARP records of the time, the shelter was designed to accommodate just over 1,000 people. Some wartime photos still remain of people sheltering in these tunnels as well as many dated etchings on the chalk walls.

Any way enough yabbering; pictures!!
[excuse the photos, fuji commited suicide stuck with old point-and-shoot with (very) limited settings]


P6040137.jpg


P6040142.jpg


P6040155.jpg


P6040157.jpg


P6040197.jpg


P6040199.jpg


P6040208.jpg
 

Who has read this thread (Total: 1) View details

Top