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It`s been a long time - so it`s road trip time with Fluffy, our first port of call (See what I did there - port get it, oh well never mind) was the former Royal navel stores depot in Milford Heaven (Newton Noyes).
The depot was opened in 1939 just ready for the pesky Germans, it was an underground magazine depot used to store sea mine for the fleet, it had it`s own railway network and pier to help with loading, the site also has a number of rail feed underground magazines (the sexy bits).
The depot was finally closed down in 1989 then went through various owners the last being Gulf oils who ain`t too keen on you been there.
So welcome to bloody west Wales in March - cold - wet - windy.
Picture time....
The 4 magazines we went in to are all just a little different.
Some things never change too much, although built in the mid 1930`s the magazines still feature a "shifting lobby" - one side is the danger side and the other the "safe" side.
Only one of the magazines still has it`s gantry crane still in place.
Time for some arty tunnel shots.
Each of the tunnel has some form of fire fighting gear in them, not painted red but yellow, we sort of guessed the yellow cages are for folded hoses.
Right that will do for Milford Heaven, cheers for looking guys, all comments are most welcome.
There are a few more shots over on my FlickR site so head on over too:-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/albums/72157713470377873
Cheers Newage
It`s been a long time - so it`s road trip time with Fluffy, our first port of call (See what I did there - port get it, oh well never mind) was the former Royal navel stores depot in Milford Heaven (Newton Noyes).
The depot was opened in 1939 just ready for the pesky Germans, it was an underground magazine depot used to store sea mine for the fleet, it had it`s own railway network and pier to help with loading, the site also has a number of rail feed underground magazines (the sexy bits).
The depot was finally closed down in 1989 then went through various owners the last being Gulf oils who ain`t too keen on you been there.
So welcome to bloody west Wales in March - cold - wet - windy.
Picture time....
The 4 magazines we went in to are all just a little different.
Some things never change too much, although built in the mid 1930`s the magazines still feature a "shifting lobby" - one side is the danger side and the other the "safe" side.
Only one of the magazines still has it`s gantry crane still in place.
Time for some arty tunnel shots.
Each of the tunnel has some form of fire fighting gear in them, not painted red but yellow, we sort of guessed the yellow cages are for folded hoses.
Right that will do for Milford Heaven, cheers for looking guys, all comments are most welcome.
There are a few more shots over on my FlickR site so head on over too:-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/albums/72157713470377873
Cheers Newage