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:: Monday, July 02, 2007 ::

Underground

Always a fan of anything underground (eg Paris catacombs, London vaults, Nature's underground music, Corsham bunkers) I'm now excited to be working on a job somewhere above the Corsham bunkers. Although doing the acoustic survey isn't going to get me access to the underground areas I'll at least get to poke around the area. Maybe I'll find something to add to my Urban Exploring photos at least.

The geo-tech people in the office have the far more interesting job of trying to work out exactly where the tunnels cross the site and how deep they are. In the process of their research they have found this BBC article and this article on the Secret Underground South West site. [Thanks for the links!]

For anyone interested in a very brief overview of everything underground around these parts, I highly recommend Sally Watson's book Secret Underground Bristol, which also covers areas out as far out the Box Tunnel and Bath's Combe Down mines, albeit in a slightly cartoonish way.

For more extreme urban exploring check out the 28dayslater forum.
This report of buried Minis saddened me.
And for the socially conscious, here they are cleaning up a site.

Labels: Underground, Urban Exploring

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