World War Bunkers.

[Ashley]

So recently I moved house, my Garden has a World War 2 Bunker underground. Anyone know if these bunkers were registered in any sort of way and would it be easy to access?

[VLC86]

19 minutes ago, Ashley said:

So recently I moved house, my Garden has a World War 2 Bunker underground. Anyone know if these bunkers were registered in any sort of way and would it be easy to access?

I’m not sure but stock up on tinned peas because the end is nigh.

 

Hope this helps.

[Ashley]

2 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said:

I’m not sure but stock up on tinned peas because the end is nigh.

 

Hope this helps.

Only you

[VLC86]

4 minutes ago, Ashley said:

Only you

In all seriousness I would absolutely love to have one of them in my garden and I think the first thing I would do is to be digging it up.

[Nick]

28 minutes ago, Ashley said:

So recently I moved house, my Garden has a World War 2 Bunker underground. Anyone know if these bunkers were registered in any sort of way and would it be easy to access?

Very cool - I'd want to know as much as I could about it as possible - any really old timers on your street - they might know a thing or two if they'd lived there since the war?

[RoboFox]

44 minutes ago, Ashley said:

So recently I moved house, my Garden has a World War 2 Bunker underground. Anyone know if these bunkers were registered in any sort of way and would it be easy to access?

Niche topic. 

 

Fun though. Is the entrance visible from the surface or were you just told it's there by the previous owners / estate agent?

[Jon the Hat]

Do you mean an air raid shelter? What sort is it?  Brick built with concrete roof?  Can you see it?

 

This is pretty cool!

[yorkie1999]

First thing i'd be checking is, is the world record breaking hide and seek champion down there.

[Buce]

1 hour ago, Ashley said:

So recently I moved house, my Garden has a World War 2 Bunker underground. Anyone know if these bunkers were registered in any sort of way and would it be easy to access?

 

Is it an Anderson shelter?

 

 

https://www.andersonshelters.org.uk/

[fuchsntf]

1 hour ago, Ashley said:

So recently I moved house, my Garden has a World War 2 Bunker underground. Anyone know if these bunkers were registered in any sort of way and would it be easy to access?

Renovate it then rename it Brexit-bunker

[Leicester_Loyal]

Get some pics up.

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Buce said:

 

Is it an Anderson shelter?

 

 

https://www.andersonshelters.org.uk/

Or better yet, Vault-Tec?

[Mike Oxlong]

Could make the ultimate man cave.

 

If you’re getting a bit of earache just deploy to the bunker and shut yourself in for a few days. 

[Smudge]

7 hours ago, Ashley said:

So recently I moved house, my Garden has a World War 2 Bunker underground. Anyone know if these bunkers were registered in any sort of way and would it be easy to access?

A friend of mine had a brick and concrete shelter in the garden which was partly subterranean. It had about three feet exposed above the soil. If my memory serves me well, the external staircase was at the front of the shelter nearest to the house.

 

if yours is completely buried, you might ask the University if they could offer advice. I believe the archaeologists use ground penetrating radar.

Maybe they would be happy to do it for a student field study. 

[VLC86]

1 hour ago, Mike Oxlong said:

Could make the ultimate man cave.

AKA wanking den.

[Mike Oxlong]

45 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said:

AKA wanking den.

 

Had been thinking Sky, PS4 and a drinks fridge myself

[Beliall]

11 minutes ago, Mike Oxlong said:

 

Had been thinking Sky, PS4 and a drinks fridge myself

cant neglect the masturbation station.



this would be great to see pics of, really interested, so i have a place to go when all goes tits up. a real life FT safehouse

[cambridgefox]

7 minutes ago, Beliall said:

cant neglect the masturbation station.



this would be great to see pics of, really interested, so i have a place to go when all goes tits up. a real life FT safehouse

When you say “ This would be great to see pics of” were you talking about the shelter or the masturbation?

[cambridgefox]

As a kid we used to have hours of fun playing in/on Pillboxes.Had loads around us and I think they are registered.Maybe bunkers are too.

How exciting 

[The Fox Covert]

A school friend had one in his garden, a brick and concrete construction half underground like the one described by Smudge.

Most people just had an Anderson shelter, the semicircular thing made of corrugated iron which looks like the type of shelter farmers use to house pigs reared outdoors.

Both types were for people to shelter from air raids.

 

Most parts of the country also have military bunkers from the Second World War, typically built of brick or concrete and hexagonal in shape with narrow slitty windows to fire out of. They were built all over the country and are usually well away from domestic housing, typically in a field on the brow of a hill or on the bend of a river. If you find one in a field it will be just one part of a defensive line, built to repel the anticipated German invasion in 1940. The defensive line near where I live is mostly intact, and also includes tank traps and ditches (mostly now filled in). I often go walking near my home so I quite often come across these things. The attached pic is a similar one near Crewkerne, pinched from the BBCs website.

 

Someone I used to work with has a nuclear bunker underneath his house!

[ozleicester]

One of my earliest memories is in my grandpa's bomb shelter, just piled full of left over bits of wood and building materials... but amazing to think what it had been used for.

[Guest Col city fan]

On 30/11/2018 at 12:48, Swan Lesta said:

Very cool - I'd want to know as much as I could about it as possible - any really old timers on your street - they might know a thing or two if they'd lived there since the war?

Same here. I’d want to know more about its history

[Vince Vega]

On 30/11/2018 at 13:24, Buce said:

 

Is it an Anderson shelter?

 

 

https://www.andersonshelters.org.uk/

We had one of these in our garden when we were kids.