Tag Archives: quarry

First Contact

Behind the Red Door was a whole new world of giant fans, strip lights and electric buggies. As one door closed another opened and a further eight visits was to reveal all; slowly and deliciously we gorged on the “sublime … Continue reading →

Preposterous Underworld

8 Dec ’10

Sub Depot 3 Monkton Farleigh was the largest of the WW2 Central Ammunition Depots of Wiltshire. Districts 19 and 20 remain unconverted to modern storage, and plenty of artefacts have survived the years of vandalism and metal theft. Titular source

This way to the Crown Jewels

14 Nov ’10

Though we were 60 years too late!

MOD Stores

3 Oct ’10

At one time, this street in a Secret Underground City somewhere out west, would have been full of Mods, buying the latest in fish-tailed khaki fashions. Sadly shut since 1994.

incline

18 Sep ’10

The presence of a large fault meant that the quarry was worked on two levels. This is one of the two inclines that connected the upper and lower levels.

Ceci n’est pas une MOD quarry

24 Aug ’10

Former stone mine, part converted to ammunition storage and abandoned sometime in the 1950′s.

Shadow Factory

31 Jul ’10

In 1950, workers in this former shadow factory were unwittingly exposed to a germ warfare test designed to highlight the vulnerability of air conditioning systems to chemical and biological attack. [source]

Beer Quarry

28 Jul ’10

Devon’s answer to Box mine, at least I hoped it would be when we first entered the underground area. Alas, the reality was somewhat different.

Stone Free

23 Jul ’10

An abandoned mushroom farm in one of the Bath Freestone Quarries, Wiltshire.

Box Mine: into the MOD area

18 Jul ’10

Someone mentioned the MOD area and red doors into urbex holy grails. Explored with Adam E, who can claim navigation credit! Little did we realize that the red door would provide another story. Subsequently the whole of this part of … Continue reading →

Sodom and the pillar incident

18 Jul ’10

The pillar has deteriorated a lot over 6 months, now resembling a pair of legs that some say belonged to Lot’s wife.