Upton Magna ROC Post - Shrewsbury Group - !! OPEN !!

Visited with Gridnutter

The T bar lock on this one has been jammed for ages and ROC fiends will know that it has been visited regularly by people putting WD40 into the mechanism in an attempt to free it.

Myself and Gridnutter took a more pragmatic view and used more physical means to free the hatch (please note, this was done with full permission of the farmer and no damage was done). The Post is now re-locked.

Talking to the farmer we also found out what the odd contraption stuck on the FSM pipe was. It was in fact made and used as a mount for a telescope that a local man used after the ROC stood down and had nothing whatsover to do with the ROC.

The farmer has been down once when the Post was handed back in the early '90's and since then the hatch has been jammed so we were the first down for about 16 years !

nice one mate
i like seeing posts that no one has seen for years

Good stuff. It's great to see that many secure posts are being accessed with cooperation of the landowners, and that not all farmers have a penchant for waving a shotgun and shouting "get off my land"

Must be great to visit a post you know probably hasn't been seen since it was decommissioned. Finding out who owns them must often be tricky, but there are so many logged as 'LOCKED' which still have the original Government issue Chubb padlocks on.

Thanks, yes it was really pleasing to crack this one at last, it's only taken me 5 visits to actually manage to get in there