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<blockquote data-quote="good life" data-source="post: 364680" data-attributes="member: 59075"><p>Thank you for posting all this information, I followed the link elsewhere and it has all been absolutely fascinating to me. In the early 1970's my family lived in Selsdon, I went to Riddlesdown school and friends there lived at Chelsham which is nearby to Tatsfield, the BBC receiving station was known to them but it had sinister overtones! The boys claimed it belonged to the MOD, armed soldiers patrolled the grounds with attack dogs and passing vehicular traffic was forbidden to stop, anyone found there without good reason was detained and some people didn't come back! It was all nonsense of course, we were young boys blessed with over active imaginations and a hunger and fascination for anything that we ought not to be interested in, especially if adults had warned us off. Needless to say none of us had ever visited the site, we didn’t need to, we already knew quite enough about it and what knowledge we lacked we made up. Bordering Chelsham is Worms Heath, we used to cycle there from home some weekends, it was once home to a working gravel and aggregates quarry operated by Hooveringham. Young men and boys used to ride motorcycles around Worms Heath, the young men were experienced road going motorcyclists but practiced there on their scramblers, now called motocross. Some of the riders were boys of my age whose parents allowed them motorcycles to ride around the Heath, it was quite isolated and they were not troubled by the police or quarry owners......I was in awe! Of equal fascination was the quarry, its flooded gravel pits, older unused abandoned machinery, signs, history, a harsh environment, an unwelcoming forbidding place, I took to going there on my own, explore, simply to look on, an observer. I credit these experiences as being the ignition of my interest in abandoned places and of course motorcycles. About 5 years ago I looked on Google Earth to find the Worms Heath gravel pits but they were not there, they'd completely vanished, I scrutinised but there wasn't, isn't a solitary sign of them........landfill. This was confirmed by The Bourne Society, their local history officer submitted to me the quarry's entire operating history and ownership, I am very grateful, it must have meant a lot of work. This site features an MOD gun emplacement nearby to the Tatsfield receiving station. Sorry to have waffled on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="good life, post: 364680, member: 59075"] Thank you for posting all this information, I followed the link elsewhere and it has all been absolutely fascinating to me. In the early 1970's my family lived in Selsdon, I went to Riddlesdown school and friends there lived at Chelsham which is nearby to Tatsfield, the BBC receiving station was known to them but it had sinister overtones! The boys claimed it belonged to the MOD, armed soldiers patrolled the grounds with attack dogs and passing vehicular traffic was forbidden to stop, anyone found there without good reason was detained and some people didn't come back! It was all nonsense of course, we were young boys blessed with over active imaginations and a hunger and fascination for anything that we ought not to be interested in, especially if adults had warned us off. Needless to say none of us had ever visited the site, we didn’t need to, we already knew quite enough about it and what knowledge we lacked we made up. Bordering Chelsham is Worms Heath, we used to cycle there from home some weekends, it was once home to a working gravel and aggregates quarry operated by Hooveringham. Young men and boys used to ride motorcycles around Worms Heath, the young men were experienced road going motorcyclists but practiced there on their scramblers, now called motocross. Some of the riders were boys of my age whose parents allowed them motorcycles to ride around the Heath, it was quite isolated and they were not troubled by the police or quarry owners......I was in awe! Of equal fascination was the quarry, its flooded gravel pits, older unused abandoned machinery, signs, history, a harsh environment, an unwelcoming forbidding place, I took to going there on my own, explore, simply to look on, an observer. I credit these experiences as being the ignition of my interest in abandoned places and of course motorcycles. About 5 years ago I looked on Google Earth to find the Worms Heath gravel pits but they were not there, they'd completely vanished, I scrutinised but there wasn't, isn't a solitary sign of them........landfill. This was confirmed by The Bourne Society, their local history officer submitted to me the quarry's entire operating history and ownership, I am very grateful, it must have meant a lot of work. This site features an MOD gun emplacement nearby to the Tatsfield receiving station. Sorry to have waffled on. [/QUOTE]
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