Background

People visiting this blog from Pistonheads.com may recall that in the "Secret Room" thread in early 2008, I said that I thought I had a nazi bunker buried in my garden. Well, since then I decided to get off my backside and excavate it.

Our house is in an old quarry, and when we bought it five or so years ago, the previous owner told us that there was a tunnel built by the germans during WW2. He said it was big enough to drive into, and that his father had buried the entrance during redevelopments, but not before filling it with stuff that lying around the property (?). He showed me the rough location, and I've marked it on this little map with a red dot....

Because this is Pistonheads, to illustrate another way, here is the location immediately behind my MX5 (Hairdressers car to the uninitiated - driver's knockaround for those in the know).

Since then, an old gardener has told me that it was full of nazi vehicles , but i've always taken that with a pinch of salt!

However, i knew that there were in fact several tunnels nearby on other properties. My neighbours have an above ground one, now used as a garden store which can be seen from the road, and there is another one further up the road, in a roadside bank, which is also being used as a store....



But, the problem with mine is that is completely underground, if there at all!

So I traced some WW2 reconnaisance photos of the property, which appeared to show the entrance road to my bunker. These were taken in 1945, and i've labelled the entrance in red - you can just see the road turning down into the shadow cast by the entrance...

And that's where the quest began.....