Shorts Tunnels - Rochester - ( Permission visit)

 Shorts tunnels 

Date:  March 2022

Location: Rochester

Public or Abandoned:  Permission Visit

Demolished:  No

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I and two other people went on a shorts tunnels tour - ( iv been on one of the tours before and also have been in tunnels back in 2013-2015 before they were tour base only ) so I knew the layout of the tunnels and I knew what there was in the tunnels - but to my surprise, I saw more stuff this time that I haven't seen before.

the nice thing about the tour was there were not many people who were on it. and it was pretty relaxed

It is said that shorts tunnel Rochester can backdate to just before World war 2 -  Shorts tunnels is apparently one of the longest underground air-raid shelters in the UK 

Its tunnels was used for air-raid shelter during the bombing and also had an underground factory connected to it that made the seaplanes.

 The site was later abandoned and the factory above ground was demolished as the housing company started to build houses the shorts tunnels underground factory was left to decay.

In 2016 all the event shafts were blocked up to prevent access into the tunnels - 

Farleigh Hungerford Castle - Barth

 Farleigh Hungerford Castle 

Date:  March 2022

Location:  Barth

Public or Abandoned:  Public

Demolished:   No

This was our second stop of the day and I have to say I was really impressed with the crypt and church more than the castle as I was not expecting it.

The site was nice and quite to the time we visited it and it is still winter and it was also raining a bit - we spent most of are time in the church/chapel because we were amazed at how it was left.

so it said  a medieval castle  , and  castle was built in two phases:the inner court was constructed between 1377 and 1383 , Underneath the chapel is a burial vault which holds the best collection of human-shaped lead coffins in Britain

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