I guess that means I'm important =P There are three undergroud concrete bomb shelters from WWII in my garden. I discovered these creepy chimney things sticking outta the ground, looked down, AND THERE WAS A FREAKIN' ROOM filled with leaves n' crap. They scare me ****less though so I stay away >.<
They're used as compost heaps now.

pff, if you couldn't find it it must have been that much more amazing (fingerprint scanner, armoury for dealing with mutants/vagrants and people that want your medicine, escape tunnel. Perhaps even genetic samples of the owner)... you will never know now =/
however as long as the contents included condensed milk and a fire axe you are more prepared that most people
hang on i think most of that was based on Day of the Dead.. now that was a bunker and a half.

need life.

pics or you lie!
you are in the london area so that definitely makes sense, they might have been one of those hidden communications rooms built for the event of a German invasion which was obviously really on the cards... there was a whole Time Team episode about them, had their own phone connections and everything.
this is shit, i want to be a partisan in a fascist dictatorship :(

secret rooms are so cool. but now Molecules got me thinking about zombies and post apocalyptic stuff.

the other day i was sitting on the bus imagining what i would do if people started turning into zombies. it's actually a fantasy i have. to be one of the last remaining. hoarding penicillin and bottled water and tins of beans and such. livin' life Mad Max style. oh yeah.

Cool pic, god awful jersey in the background.

Did somone say zombies?

I am Legend?

My internet broke earlier. So I played with webcam filters!
http://i675.photobucket.com/albums/v...icture4100.jpg

Where the fuck did that come from :D?
I personally like it, it's for keeps.
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edit: Plus I remembered there, that it's Movember.

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I decided I would try to be an active member again, because I gots the mono and have a lot more computer down time than usual. Also I sorta miss this place. Yeah, so this is halloween. My friends and I decided to all go as Nintendo characters. I'm supposed to be princess Rosalina. It sorta worked out. Also my dress lights up all crazy in the dark.

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs094...._3876439_n.jpg

My friend is supposed to be Sheik.

Kayleigh, you offering mustache rides?

Kevorkian, veryyy nice. I'm glad you came back to share haha. Did most people know who you were? Also- dorms? I recognize those generic dorm brick walls any day...

I'm struggling to think of a reason why not..
Ofcourse I need details!

You found THREE WWII underground bomb shelters and you're complaining about it ?!!! That's the coolest thing I've ever heard!

The bomb shelter I found was more of an underground floor in the building, and all I can find in that one was dead ****roaches. I'm really glad I didn't inherit its contents.

Great legs...;)

if they were cool they knew who I was ;). And yeah, I'm a sophomore in college, hence the dorms.

edit: i just realized I think I joined this forum near the end of my sophomore year of high school. So I guess i've come full circle (of a very small circle)

oh oh oh oh i love cheese nights

thats where you sohuld have been throwing the camping parties

this looks like a job for musicbanter.

Alright folks, we've got a bomb shelter to unearth.

I remember the remains of an old Anderson shelter that was in my Grans back garden.
All that was left was a rusty old base. Probably still there.
They never used it, instead they used to hide under the stairs in a cubby hole, which was just as well because the houses that backed onto my Grans were flattened one night during an air raid!

My Aunt has an underground German bunker on her land.

It's a museum these days.

Thats the name I've been looking for, Anderson Shelter! Thank you. There isn't anything war related where I stay, 'cause I stay in a really small village so children from the city probably got evacuated to homes around here. I'm going to ask my Papa, cause he was a little boy when the war started. The closest thing I've ever seen related to the war, was money my Papa found in his garden, and the things that sorted the Rations out. Better than nothing I guess.

Sounds a lot safer than the tin can Anderson shelters.
How the fuck they expected anyone to survive a bomb blast sat in one of those is beyond me.

What was the bunker for Urban? (apart for Germans taking cover in)
Was there some kind of installation nearby?

I always wondered what the point in an Anderson Shelter was. 'Cause as you say, it wouldn't provide any protection at all really.

edit: they were home made :O

There's still gaps in the terrace where the houses used to be to this day.
I think there were about 9 deaths. My Gran used to blame the bloke at the end house because he was stood on his doorstep watching the raid and smoking a cig at the time. :laughing:

There's a castle here that's been damaged by bombs. It was sort of rebuilt kinda. Haha, sounds like a good enough explaination :laughing: Grans are amazing with their views on stuff :D

"They were made from six corrugated iron sheets bolted together at the top, with steel plates at either end, and measured 6ft 6in by 4ft 6in (1.95m by 1.35m). The entrance was protected by a steel shield and an earthen blast wall."

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6 people were meant to sleep and shelter in these things.

You couldn't swing a cat in there by the looks of it, never mind fir 6 people in it. I suppose it is more roomish than under the stairs :(.

The south where I'm from is riddled with german bunkers after the german occupation. The mountains there are like swizz cheese .. really. I've spent quite a lot of time in dank, dark holes. ;)

Don't let the girlfriend read that. ^

Speaking of Nazi era bunkers, basements and hideouts...
When I was stationed in Germany, some friends and I were out one night drinkin' some drank and and we found a way into this old locked up basement (B&E) underneath a building on an ex-Nazi, now U.S. controlled military base where our barracks were located.

Here are some of the pictures I took:

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Ze Germans!

That a nice little beer bottle?

Those are amence, was it just a normal basement, or was it used for something amazing. I would have been crapping myself, just incase there were still some Nazi's in it...
or homeless people.

Freebase- is that the set from Saw ;)

I've only seen the first one and that first picture may well could be it, with a small paintjob, and some more lighting. It's totally it!!

it's pillboxes/bunkers that dot the english countryside like... dotty things.
They are everywhere, mainly coastal areas but there were plenty inland where i used to live in the south east, off country roads, in the woods.. they were counting on fighting for every yard it seems.. you have to wonder what that would have been like (i'm sure your grandparents could tell us Tore)

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Haha
I wish it was the set from Saw. I would have shot a bootleg version down there.

But yea, the basement itself was the entire length and square footage of the building itself, minus the second floor. The building above ground could have been anything in the WW2 days, but most of it was being used as offices for JAG, storage, etc. I dunno why the basement was never used.

Oh and the beer bottle was ours. We spent a good 3 hours down there looking around and planning the halloween party we never had. :(

that sucks, that would have been one awesome halloween party. :(

I think Ive had more party planning parties than actual parties.

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me circa 2001

badass ova heeeere

Here's me again in a week-old or so picture with our boys. :)

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Without going into detail on who's who, they're Gunnar, Fredrik, Alfred and Benjamin. Lovely little guys :)