Bunkers

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Mon 13 Aug, 2007 10:24 pm

Phill_d wrote: It would be good to see that Ls1. Download this image resizer & you should be able to post it mate! http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... ySetup.exe Phil, managed to find and resize the photo. You can see in the top left where the barracks are/ were. presumably the air raid shelter was something to do with this??????

rock specialist · Post by **rock specialist** » Tue 04 Sep, 2007 4:09 pm

Hi there everyoneI just stumbled on this site completely by accident! whilst googling roman road in roundhay (househunting) I came upon a forum discussion involving phil-d about the follie in the park and after reading through the whole of the bunkers posts, I fear I may be hooked!Last month I decided on a whim to go and look at some old coastal defences around spurn point which I enjoyed immensely and so I'm pleased to find a site like this one.I noticed a post by riotscar which mentioned a bunker he visited as a lad in farnley. I too came across this bunker while exploring in my younger days and if i remember correctly it is part of 3 bunkers set into the embankment bellow the school, if you walk along the beck from lower wortley road where the do-it-all used to be and head toward the old millpond I think they are around 3 quarters of the way up. I remember the entrances to be very overgrown on two and- so hard to find, and I think the third was inaccessable.Also In my hometown of morley there was a series of short tunnels leading to a bunker in the bantam mills area which I think was situated under a kind of manor house which was once there. I'm not sure if its still accessable now as the last six years or so has seen the old bantam mill burnt down and levelled for development work but i remember it to be quite big and well known about by the locals.bye for now folks, keep up the good work

moleman · Post by **moleman** » Wed 26 Sep, 2007 2:31 am

I was in the Hyde Park bunker as late as 2005, having been down there many times before for late nite drinkies, we used to have great fun down there and I have plenty of photos to prove, I hear on the grapevine that it is now capped, but there is another entrance....

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Wed 26 Sep, 2007 6:48 am

It'd be good to see those pics moleman. Can you upload them so we can see what condition it's in?

blondie · Post by **blondie** » Fri 05 Oct, 2007 4:05 pm

As a child I used to play near the tunnel enterance to a bunker on Braod lane in Bramley. This was between Sandford Arms Pub and the Whitbread Brewery. Does anyone have any Information about this site?I also recall playing on 'Post Hill' in Pudsey where there was an anti aircraft battery. Anyone shed any light?

Hollywood · Post by **Hollywood** » Fri 12 Oct, 2007 12:27 am

Does anyone know of the ARP in Cookridge?

Gunhappyhippy · Post by **Gunhappyhippy** » Fri 12 Oct, 2007 10:40 am

Hi, there is an RAF communications bunker on "new road" Badsworth, (pontefract, west yorks). It has the same green box style access hatch with matching green ventilation shafts. I understand it was manned until the early 80's and then manned part time until 1990, then sold.I have photographed this and currently arranging access via local MP and a farmer, who now owns it...apparently. I will post on flickr later today.www.flickr.com/photos/gunhappyhippyRegards,Paul

Si · Post by Si » Fri 12 Oct, 2007 12:46 pm

Does anyone know anything about the bunkers/concrete structures on top of Otley Chevin. They are in a field near East Carlton, between Harrogate Road and the top of the Chevin. They can be seen from the road that leads to Otley, and are very clear on Google Earth. I'm assuming, due to the proximity of the AVRO works, that the four circular structures in an arc are anti-aircraft gun pits, and the central building is the ammunition store. However, why have four large guns so close together? Maybe guns and searchlights/barrage balloons? Maybe just an over-engineered pigsty? I'll be grateful for any reply.ThanksSi

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Fri 12 Oct, 2007 2:47 pm

Si wrote: Does anyone know anything about the bunkers/concrete structures on top of Otley Chevin. They are in a field near East Carlton, between Harrogate Road and the top of the Chevin. They can be seen from the road that leads to Otley, and are very clear on Google Earth. I'm assuming, due to the proximity of the AVRO works, that the four circular structures in an arc are anti-aircraft gun pits, and the central building is the ammunition store. However, why have four large guns so close together? Maybe guns and searchlights/barrage balloons? Maybe just an over-engineered pigsty? I'll be grateful for any reply.ThanksSi Si! I used to work for a guy who farmed those very fields!!!! havnt spoke with him in a while but if i can track him down i'll see what i can gleen!

Si · Post by Si » Fri 12 Oct, 2007 3:17 pm

Thanks, Rangieowner, that would be great.What a brilliant site! (website, I mean...not the bunker site, obviously.) Cheers Si