“The whole quarry felt untouched, it's not often you get that feeling doing this hobby. There's nearly always some evidence of previous visitors.”
“Early in 1944, bomb storage peaked at 31,563 tons as the invasion of Europe was being prepared and in April & May of that year the RAF dropped 200,000 tons in operation Overlord.”
“Darkness surrounds you with only the echoes of footsteps resonating all around... however when you get to the bottom of this particular 212-step shaft a whirring fan can be heard in the distance”
“During the Blitz, sculptures, The Elgin Marbles, tapestries & carpets from the V&A, even the crown jewels were said to be stored there.”
“Under the Corsham Cotswalds approximately eighty feet below ground, and around a kilometer in length lies the UK's largest underground bunker and for sixty years one of the best kept secrets in modern MOD history”
“Perhaps a little more unstable than some of the other mines in the area but plenty of history, tools, horse and cart prints and a superb crane still in situ.”
“This place was definitely a nice surprise. The underground was in really good condition with a lot of nice features. One of the nicest underground ammo stores I've ever seen”
“The tunnel was linked to the Monkton Farleigh Central Ammunition Depot approximately 1 mile away. Ammunition would be brought to the railway sidings, loaded in to carts and sorted in the yard below ground.”
“At the centre of Box is an area known simply as Cathedral. Nothing anyone tells you about it can ever actually prepare you for the sheer size.”
