Great location again gents and a pleasure to watch. You have to look into more of those Things there. Thanks for sharing and have a Happy New Year !. WW2HistoryHunter
Nice one guys I always think of a battery as one storing power but up you way it has a totally different meaning. All the best over the new years bro and of course your exploration friends as well.
Outstanding Ian as usual! You mentioned in the video that there will be crap videos I honestly doubt that. You never disappoint. Keep up the great work mate I look forward to Tuesday's and Friday's.
You ought to get one of those ladders that are made of chain, that can be rolled up, and are sold for use as a fire escape - they are extremely sturdy. You can still tie it off securely, or fix it into the ground with a metal screw-in tent peg. It's just a thought.
Stephen M there was no radar just a AA 3.7in gun battery with searchlights. Radar in 1940 would need so much power that the generator would be as huge as the room itself
I can see rubber blocks going in those truncated pyramid holes in the slabs, that would attenuate a lot of vibration and is in keeping with British engineering at the time. The metal piece might've been a distribution pole on the outside of the genie room, and the wires were coming through the pipes you saw in that corner. The square door with the weird bypass... now that's something interesting, haven't seen anything quite like that before.
If i can make a suggestion, get on Google Maps, and figure out the mounds vs the genie room. If it's a star pattern from them (even roughly) then you're spot on with your theory and that's power distribution to air batteries. It has to be (based on the path of least resistance).
Hello Ian and Chris, my suggestion is that the hole you went down is the generator vent cum spy hole, we used a similar design as an acoustic exhaust on generator houses, thanks for an excellent vidja as always.
did you ever look for that bunker in the woods on the edge of the edge bury estate in Chislehurst Kent. ...we used to run past it when we did cross country.....had a round hatch then down into a corridor...think it had cell like structures with beds...
Hoooooooo thank god I found your Video tonight, New Years, the rest have been crazzzzzzzy, thank you for staying sane and hope 2017 is a great year for you. 👍👍👍👍🙂👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🙂👍 Please keep making Videos with Chris, Chris is great 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 normal,, you both are great making videos together and please cover all holes so any Animals dont fall down them, please. xx
You can reheat the cut ends of the rope with a lighter/propane torch if it is nylon or plastic rope, it will seal them up very well. Or epoxy resin works on organic ropes very well too. Other methods of sealing the ends of rope exist, but are hardly worth mentioning imo. The comments advising you on tying knots every so often are great too.
Ive visited a post WW2 anti aircraft battery at Lower Kinnerton in Cheshire (which is now a paintball site called outpost) which was part of the defenses for Manchester in the cold war. The site has some of the concrete bunkers uncovered ( you can see the four gun pits in google earth) Your point of entry is extremely reminisant of the ventilation shafts which were above the power room which ran power cables down through the small passage you found to the gun pit for the operation of an automatically controlled AA gun. The big entrance which was filled with earth in your video opened up on to a rectangular pit (through a large steel door missing from your bunker) which had a ladder up the wall for entry. The actual gunpit was circular in shape but with small alcoves alround its extremity for the storage of ready use ammunition. Similar installations can be seen on the rock of Gibraltar .The actual site at lower kinnerton was never finished (or Used)as the army mucked it up during the survey for the site and the pits began to sink under their own weighht as the ground was too soft.
I live near fradley in Lichfield that was a extensive ww2 air base many of the hangers are still used also there was another one nearby in burntwood . Also Cannock chase has a ww2 German grave yard and ww1 trench war fair testing area. There is a observation bunker still intact and many machine gun century along the a38. Sadly the air field isn't still intact at fradley but the raf housing is still around its all in a sad state and needs to be preserved it's are history and they gone and built a Tesco warehouse on the air field and a industrial estate. We don't have many ww2 raf base's in the midlands still intact .
Go to Saint-Eloi ypres belgium. Bayernwald. found about 6 big bunkers in the middle of a forest. The entrances were filled so we dug one of them out. Prety amazing what we found inside. It was flooded though
you should explore Bullsand Fort near Hull city in the river Humber. you may need some sort of boat or aircraft to get there because the sinking mud and powerful current.
The round concrete portion you found is what housed the battery itself. the mounds are all ammo stores and troop hides for when and if the field were to be shelled or bombed. you are in fact correct, that was the generator ventilation shaft. the generators were water cooled and were fed from a pump off location from a water source somewhere nearby. betchya you will find more stuff you find a pond or something nearby you will find all sortsa cool stuff
Great vlog chaps.... How about doing one of the old rugby radio masts site next to the m6 /A5.... before they build the new town on the site... I think u might need permission but would be a good drone shots... check it out on google maps....
you guys were about 500m away from another tunnel (now collapsed) that from my childhood memory was VAST and branched off in many directions, i explored for several hours and didn't find everything.
i wouldof been freekin to go in there some wild animal come out crazy haha that was verry shallow cool find dude ...and wow its only up for an hour and you have 715 veiws good job
I have very limited knowledge about this but I must ask, when you find a tunnel or doorway such as that square doorway. How come you don't try to dig it out a bit? Could it cause the bunker or shaft to collapse or would there just be too much to dig?
Sorry Chris I haven't followed for a few thank you so much for finding these areas and spelunking them. keep in mind these are big out positions and may save your life if something terrible happens. you just need to supply the MRE's, there's loads of videos of which ones are edible. and I'd get a kick out of you eating a mre with some of your crew.
I wonder if there's any connection to the railroad tunnel passing at the east. At the end of the paved road there seems to be something visible on g earth, closer to D road.
probably very dangerous but how about you dig the dirt that's blocking that tunnel at 7:24. just an idea, maybe there's more rooms that isn't filled with dirt
Excellent video.I always look forward to seeing interesting subjects. Have you considered a "caving ladder" made of metal and rolls up reasonably small.It would be usefull for you to take when you are exploring.What about a head torch? Keep up all your hard work and effort.
Amazing job that you both did I would be afraid of getting stuck down there. What a shame about that animal. Would be nice if they put something over the hole so no more animals fall in. Some thing that is removable for future explorers.
Great video , you should go to the oldest person living near this bunker and ask them . You would be surprised at what you will learn . Ask them can you record them and do an interview . Their stories need to be recorded !!!!
Possibly was a genset for a Bofors interlinked (radar controlled) anti-aircraft system?, As far as i can remember there could be up to 5 guns controlled by one Radar unit. Regards, J.
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Great location again gents and a pleasure to watch. You have to look into more of those Things there. Thanks for sharing and have a Happy New Year !. WW2HistoryHunter
WW2HistoryHunter cool finding you here
+WW2HistoryHunter happy new year :) I'm falling behind on all these comment :( how do you manage yours ?
That was a hard graft and took guts! As an RN I am amazed at the way you Brits found places and ways to care for people!
Thanks guy’s for another great video you guys are so brave going down these locations keep these great videos coming guys
Excellent, as usual. Been waiting for this, since your short vlog. Nice one!
+brianartillery :) thanks for watching :)
Always a pleasure to watch iks exploration you guys are top class
Nice one guys I always think of a battery as one storing power but up you way it has a totally different meaning. All the best over the new years bro and of course your exploration friends as well.
Outstanding Ian as usual! You mentioned in the video that there will be crap videos I honestly doubt that. You never disappoint. Keep up the great work mate I look forward to Tuesday's and Friday's.
Another great video chaps, look forward to following you in your new finds and tunnels in 2017. Have a great new year ....
Good content mate , I thoroughly enjoy watching
+Alex Preece thanks for watching :)
You ought to get one of those ladders that are made of chain, that can be rolled up, and are sold for use as a fire escape - they are extremely sturdy. You can still tie it off securely, or fix it into the ground with a metal screw-in tent peg. It's just a thought.
+brianartillery thanks for sharing will look into this :)
A manharness hitch will make a good and quick rope ladder. great video
You can see him thinking about the bowline knot :) "Up through the rabbit hole, round the big tree; down through the rabbit hole and off goes he"
tennis ball at 7:51 lol. great video guys.
All the best for the New Year. Looking forward to seeing what you discover in 2017. Have a good one. 😀
yay you went back ill watch with interest :) , you go places i cant get too ,keep up the good work ,stay safe
+richard vickers thanks for your support :)
Another great and entertaining video :)
i absolutely love your videos man. keep it up
Keep it going lads!
happy new year guys, keep up the amazing work, so interesting,. well done .
Definately a generator room for the searchlights ;) Great clip guys!
My thoughts too.
Stephen M there was no radar just a AA 3.7in gun battery with searchlights. Radar in 1940 would need so much power that the generator would be as huge as the room itself
cwizard Ok Mr. clever clogs, show us some pictures or records of that radar!
+Macke historic sites WWII yeah I would say it was, any ideas folks put up is great thanks all :)
Yes, it's a generator room that is why there was a pad for the generator to sit on...LOL Very common construction method.
Been waiting for a video
+Rhys Mirtschin thanks for watching:)
Hi once again a nice video. What you make New Year's Eve you make a Special
Another interesting find here👍😊
I can see rubber blocks going in those truncated pyramid holes in the slabs, that would attenuate a lot of vibration and is in keeping with British engineering at the time.
The metal piece might've been a distribution pole on the outside of the genie room, and the wires were coming through the pipes you saw in that corner.
The square door with the weird bypass... now that's something interesting, haven't seen anything quite like that before.
If i can make a suggestion, get on Google Maps, and figure out the mounds vs the genie room. If it's a star pattern from them (even roughly) then you're spot on with your theory and that's power distribution to air batteries. It has to be (based on the path of least resistance).
I use google earth to go back in time, some areas go back to the 1940s
Hello Ian and Chris, my suggestion is that the hole you went down is the generator vent cum spy hole, we used a similar design as an acoustic exhaust on generator houses, thanks for an excellent vidja as always.
i love you beard. keep up the good work.
First time watching. .I think your both very brave...that would make me clostrophobic XD. .great video btw ♥
Great thanks guys
+aska thanks for your support :)
did you ever look for that bunker in the woods on the edge of the edge bury estate in Chislehurst Kent. ...we used to run past it when we did cross country.....had a round hatch then down into a corridor...think it had cell like structures with beds...
+Chaz Wells interesting will look into it :)
update , did some research , it was an ROC called roc eltham, demolished 1996
What a lovely shaft
+Daniel W was a nice one folks :)
Great Explore!
Should have your own tv show on the history channel
love the vids man keep em commin.
+scaleop4 thanks for your support :)
great video I always in joy them
I wish you a happy new year and health and on many new videos !
Nice one guys as allways :)
+Mohammad Omar thanks for watching :)
Hoooooooo thank god I found your Video tonight, New Years, the rest have been crazzzzzzzy, thank you for staying sane and hope 2017 is a great year for you. 👍👍👍👍🙂👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🙂👍 Please keep making Videos with Chris, Chris is great 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 normal,, you both are great making videos together and please cover all holes so any Animals dont fall down them, please. xx
This guy is such a character, He is freaking awesome!!!!
really enjoy the video guys ... just promise you will never take up rock climbing 😂😂
+b4tiatus lol
+Stephen M :)
You can reheat the cut ends of the rope with a lighter/propane torch if it is nylon or plastic rope, it will seal them up very well. Or epoxy resin works on organic ropes very well too. Other methods of sealing the ends of rope exist, but are hardly worth mentioning imo. The comments advising you on tying knots every so often are great too.
Happy new year friend :)
+MTB-G Marl happy new year:)
AA batteries are the next size up from AAA, Joke :)
Buy your own damn rope! :D he payed for his 25m one, no cutty cutty! :P
Itereresting explore IKS thanks
Ive visited a post WW2 anti aircraft battery at Lower Kinnerton in Cheshire (which is now a paintball site called outpost) which was part of the defenses for Manchester in the cold war. The site has some of the concrete bunkers uncovered ( you can see the four gun pits in google earth) Your point of entry is extremely reminisant of the ventilation shafts which were above the power room which ran power cables down through the small passage you found to the gun pit for the operation of an automatically controlled AA gun. The big entrance which was filled with earth in your video opened up on to a rectangular pit (through a large steel door missing from your bunker) which had a ladder up the wall for entry. The actual gunpit was circular in shape but with small alcoves alround its extremity for the storage of ready use ammunition. Similar installations can be seen on the rock of Gibraltar .The actual site at lower kinnerton was never finished (or Used)as the army mucked it up during the survey for the site and the pits began to sink under their own weighht as the ground was too soft.
Nice one you fellas, defo a generator room, .,.,.,.,.appy nu year to yuh.
+neil phillips happy new year I would say generator room :)
Ian you wonderful specimen
Thanks for the exiting vid, you guys bring urbex to a new level. Let me know if you plan any adventure in Belgium.
I live near fradley in Lichfield that was a extensive ww2 air base many of the hangers are still used also there was another one nearby in burntwood . Also Cannock chase has a ww2 German grave yard and ww1 trench war fair testing area. There is a observation bunker still intact and many machine gun century along the a38. Sadly the air field isn't still intact at fradley but the raf housing is still around its all in a sad state and needs to be preserved it's are history and they gone and built a Tesco warehouse on the air field and a industrial estate. We don't have many ww2 raf base's in the midlands still intact .
Good video
You should go back with tools and excavate that small side shaft. It looks interesting. :)
+Sly Fox is interesting what could it be :)
Well, found my new favourite channel.
What was it used for? By whom?
The platform looks like it's for a generator and the square door possible escape hatch/tunnel brave video again guys love your dedication
gotta love the deep shaft
+Gnome Dome definitely;)
Go to Saint-Eloi ypres belgium. Bayernwald. found about 6 big bunkers in the middle of a forest. The entrances were filled so we dug one of them out. Prety amazing what we found inside. It was flooded though
you should explore Bullsand Fort near Hull city in the river Humber. you may need some sort of boat or aircraft to get there because the sinking mud and powerful current.
Happy new year Ian ;-)
The round concrete portion you found is what housed the battery itself. the mounds are all ammo stores and troop hides for when and if the field were to be shelled or bombed. you are in fact correct, that was the generator ventilation shaft. the generators were water cooled and were fed from a pump off location from a water source somewhere nearby. betchya you will find more stuff you find a pond or something nearby you will find all sortsa cool stuff
A dark deep hole with something moving about inside, an abandoned torch, bone remains.... It's like the start of some horrorstory almost lol.
Great vlog chaps.... How about doing one of the old rugby radio masts site next to the m6 /A5.... before they build the new town on the site... I think u might need permission but would be a good drone shots... check it out on google maps....
+Michael Johnson will look into this cheers :)
How do you find these bunkers? Do you start looking on the internet and hoping there will be a way in or something? Plss tell me :)
the first room you go into looks like a generator room. Those concrete pedestals were where generators normally sat
+seansamurai1981 interesting thanks for sharing :)
dig it out!!
you guys were about 500m away from another tunnel (now collapsed) that from my childhood memory was VAST and branched off in many directions, i explored for several hours and didn't find everything.
Was it long hill ?
it looks like a old generating room ive dug then out on airfields
i wouldof been freekin to go in there some wild animal come out crazy haha that was verry shallow cool find dude ...and wow its only up for an hour and you have 715 veiws good job
+Raymond J thanks for watching yeah only small but interesting:)
do you never think of using a metal detector when you are having a look about
thnks 4 update, gloomy&backfilled.........
explore london! i miss that place. you should go there for some vlogs.
+The Flailing Melon yeah we are going back very soon :)
I have very limited knowledge about this but I must ask, when you find a tunnel or doorway such as that square doorway. How come you don't try to dig it out a bit? Could it cause the bunker or shaft to collapse or would there just be too much to dig?
Sorry Chris I haven't followed for a few thank you so much for finding these areas and spelunking them. keep in mind these are big out positions and may save your life if something terrible happens. you just need to supply the MRE's, there's loads of videos of which ones are edible. and I'd get a kick out of you eating a mre with some of your crew.
You can never have to many flashlights lol
amazing
Not much to see but still very cool !
You guys never heard of bright sticks or light sticks ? Love your video's !
+Phillip S. English heard of glow sticks :) thanks for your support :)
You've defected to the Belgian army by the looks of the shoulder flag. Quite right - the land of good chocolate and mayonnaise. Enjoyed the vid btw!
I wonder if there's any connection to the railroad tunnel passing at the east. At the end of the paved road there seems to be something visible on g earth, closer to D road.
Belgian Army BDUs. Yay! ^^
in England my great-grandmother was in the war she had buckers in her back yard hill
Did you get the flashlight working?
Yeah was used it a lot of explores after :)
IKS Exploration Sweet. I'm working through all your videos one by one. Hehehe.
Do you ever travel across the UK or just in your area?
+Matthew Hunt we are heading to Europe later in the yeah for German bunkers :)
The way you entered. it is a ventilation shaft. there must be another entrance, most likely capped.
+James Stephenson yeah there would have been steps down
any chance you'd allow someone to accompany you?
probably very dangerous but how about you dig the dirt that's blocking that tunnel at 7:24. just an idea, maybe there's more rooms that isn't filled with dirt
there is got to be more of that place
+bryon jones definitely has to be :)
Aye up folk's.....................And Chris ;)
+Daniel Rowlands Hiya folk
Aye up Pal how are you going? keep up the good work matey love watching your vids :)
Excellent video.I always look forward to seeing interesting subjects. Have you considered a "caving ladder" made of metal and rolls up reasonably small.It would be usefull for you to take when you are exploring.What about a head torch? Keep up all your hard work and effort.
+David Morris thanks for watching. Been looking at roll up ladders :)
*cool man*
Bring a shovel/trenching tool to dug through the rubble in the corridors.
Amazing job that you both did I would be afraid of getting stuck down there. What a shame about that animal. Would be nice if they put something over the hole so no more animals fall in. Some thing that is removable for future explorers.
just wondered if you have ever thought of using a metal detector on these areas you are finding
Great video , you should go to the oldest person living near this bunker and ask them . You would be surprised at what you will learn . Ask them can you record them and do an interview . Their stories need to be recorded !!!!
+Del Smith sounds good will keep in mind :)
Possibly was a genset for a Bofors interlinked (radar controlled) anti-aircraft system?, As far as i can remember there could be up to 5 guns controlled by one Radar unit. Regards, J.
+Average Joe interesting:) thanks for sharing :)
+Stephen M I wonder :)
Does Chris have his own channel/page ?
shovels and dig out the main entrance?
+Rowbprur don't know how the farmer would feel about that lol thanks for watching :)
ill teach you a useful knot next time, and a tip is never wrap a rope around your hand if you intend to use it again, cheers and nice explore
+exploring malta thanks for the tip :)
tennis ball right next to the bones at 7:51
Wish they weren't flooded with dirt