Visited with Prickly Buzz & co.
After a morning's work, I crammed a sandwich into my gullet, tanked up my jalopy and made for the cliffs. After a little confusion as to each others whereabouts, thanks to French telecom, Prickly Buzz and his pal somehow managed to find me.
Luckily I had my cheapo bridge camera on this one, so my photos are a marked improvement from my last deep shelter explore.
We visited Langdon Hole, South Foreland and St.Margaret's deep shelters.
There were originally two deep shelters at St.Margaret's as I understand - one for the personnel of the artillery battery and one for the personnel of the Z-Rocket battery. The one featured in my report is for the latter and in case anyone is wondering what a Z-Rocket looks like, it would have been something like this:
Descending into one of the shelters:
Our first artifacts of the day - some rusted old cans:
Examining the ventilation system. Note some of the extant lining:
More ducting:
Room with the famous smiley face air outlet:
More outlets:
Playing around with lighting and basic shutter speed and aperture settings. The lining in this section appears to be 1/8" ply and tarred paper?:
Group shot!
My photos don't do a lot of justice for what are some fantastic pieces of living history! Big ups and thanks to Prickly Buzz and C for being such good company for the day.
After a morning's work, I crammed a sandwich into my gullet, tanked up my jalopy and made for the cliffs. After a little confusion as to each others whereabouts, thanks to French telecom, Prickly Buzz and his pal somehow managed to find me.
Luckily I had my cheapo bridge camera on this one, so my photos are a marked improvement from my last deep shelter explore.
We visited Langdon Hole, South Foreland and St.Margaret's deep shelters.
There were originally two deep shelters at St.Margaret's as I understand - one for the personnel of the artillery battery and one for the personnel of the Z-Rocket battery. The one featured in my report is for the latter and in case anyone is wondering what a Z-Rocket looks like, it would have been something like this:
Descending into one of the shelters:
Our first artifacts of the day - some rusted old cans:
Examining the ventilation system. Note some of the extant lining:
More ducting:
Room with the famous smiley face air outlet:
More outlets:
Playing around with lighting and basic shutter speed and aperture settings. The lining in this section appears to be 1/8" ply and tarred paper?:
Group shot!
My photos don't do a lot of justice for what are some fantastic pieces of living history! Big ups and thanks to Prickly Buzz and C for being such good company for the day.
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