All Saints Church, Waldershare

All Saints Church 

                                             Date: october 

                                           Location: kent 

                                           Abandoned or Public : public 

                                          Delmoished: No

on our day trip out in and around Dover, we thought we would check out a few redundant and all saints church  was the first one we checked out, we parked the car and headed to the church, we signed the guest book and started looking around, it such a beautiful little church,

So it said that all saint churches are redundant Anglican churches, and is also said that the church is grade 2 listed,  it said that the church is said to back to the 12th century, sadly in 1980 the church was, declared redundant, but in 2006 CCT took over the church and open to public.

The old warden tunnel - Bedford

 The old Warden tunnel

                                            Date: october 

                                           Location: Bedfrod 

                                           Abandoned or Public : Abandoned 

                                          Delmoished: No

This was are last exploration of the day and to be there is not much to say about this one, it a very easy walk down as they opened it up as a nature reserve, once we got down to the tunnel entrance there was a bunch of rotting away car's and this always sad to see as it makes you wonder what happened to them, but then I spotted a hornet and that thing looked angry, As we approached the tunnel entrance you can hear yellow jackets buzzing around so we though it is best not to go and walk down the tunnels as did not want to be stung, so I stuck my camera though the entrance and got a photo of the tunnel.

So it said that the tunnel was part of the Midland Railway that would of connected Bedford, Hitchin and london together between 1853-and 1857

it said that the tunnel has been sitting abandoned for over 40 years.

Esplanade Tunnels - Dover - Revisit

 Esplanade Tunnels 

                                          Date: october 

                                           Location: Dover 

                                           Abandoned or Public : Abandoned 

                                          Delmoished: No

This was our first visit in over - And once we were inside - I forgot how big the site was, This was my second visit so I didn't take many photos this time ( 2019 visit ) can be found here :) , The tunnels have not changed much and are still the same, just a bit more chalk wring on the wall compared to last time.

So it said that the Esplanade tunnels was used in ww2 as a civilian shelter, the tunnels are a big complex that connected trevannion caves, athrol terrance cave together that was once linked by guilford tunnel,  It is  a romoure that these tunnel could open to public one day but it all hearsay.

 

Christ Church air-raid shelter dover

 

Christ Church air-raid 

                                           Date: october 

                                           Location: Dover 

                                           Abandoned or Public : Abandoned 

                                          Delmoished: No

This second exploration of the day was in the Dover area and I have to say it was a pain to get to it as one of the One time only explore due to how awarded it is to get to the tunnels,  once we were on the side, it wasn't that big still a nice little mooch.

So it said it was originally a small air raid shelter that was for a school,  but after the school was demolished it said it would hold up to 180 people.

St James Church - Cooling - Medway

 St James Church 

                   

                                           Date:Oct 2023

                                           Location: Medway 

                                           Abandoned or Public : Public  

                                          Delmoished: No

 I knew about this church for a while but for some reason just never visited it , so out the blue as we had some free time we though we head over to cooling witch is about 10 min drive not even that and check out the church , to start off with was a little confused why there was camping chairs and beds in there but it turns out you can do something called champing ( will try this out out one day ) , the church it self it laid out pretty much any other way as any other disused church , but still pretty .

So it said that St James church in cooling is an old redundant Anglican church , it is said that the church back dates to around 13th century , and in 1976 it was declared redundant  and handed over to CCT iN 1978.