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markus250
08-06-2010, 04:14 PM
Hi all,

A really easy and nice late summer evening explore this one. Chatting to a friend on good ol' facebook i found out about this air raid shelter thats still there in Stanton, Ilkeston, Nottingham. So with brief location details we set out for a look. Was quite easy to find as its in a field and right next to the road!

I have no history of this shelter and neither did the person i was chatting to but there are lots of factories in the area, some of which are very old buildings...must go there to see if anything derelict!

So here are the pics we got. Sorry for the blurry ones but we only took the camera and two small led torches. Plan is to revisit (as a mate wants to take a peek) with better lighting and torches etc.

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20-%204th%20June%202010/100_6009.jpg

Each corridor looked like a dead end but there are small corridors off these at the end which can only be seen when right up close
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20-%204th%20June%202010/100_6019.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20-%204th%20June%202010/100_6049.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20-%204th%20June%202010/100_6048.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20-%204th%20June%202010/100_6032.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20-%204th%20June%202010/100_6038.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20-%204th%20June%202010/100_6030.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20-%204th%20June%202010/100_6029.jpg

Looking up one of the small air shafts:
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20-%204th%20June%202010/100_6026.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20-%204th%20June%202010/100_6020.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20-%204th%20June%202010/100_6038.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20-%204th%20June%202010/100_6054.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20-%204th%20June%202010/100_6061.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20-%204th%20June%202010/100_6015.jpg

There is another smaller shelter right next to this one but it seems to be full of water...maybe a foot in depth so i need wellies to go in there...maybe there's some stuff still in there with it being inaccessible to most due to the water?

Hope you like.

markus:)

markus250
14-06-2010, 02:16 AM
Just revisited today and we were held captive in there by a huge herd of cows! Here's some more pics of the day!

This was after we went in...they surrounded our exit!:
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20Revisited-%2013th%20June%202010/100_6208.jpg

They were at another exit too!
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20Revisited-%2013th%20June%202010/100_6210.jpg

They looked like they meant business:
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20Revisited-%2013th%20June%202010/100_6214.jpg

And they even manned the airshafts!!:
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20Revisited-%2013th%20June%202010/100_6215.jpg

We had a wander along the shelter and hid from the 'killer' cows!
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20Revisited-%2013th%20June%202010/100_6216.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20Revisited-%2013th%20June%202010/100_6225.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20Revisited-%2013th%20June%202010/100_6229.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20Revisited-%2013th%20June%202010/100_6236.jpg

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20Revisited-%2013th%20June%202010/100_6227.jpg

Its all clear!!! When we exited, the cows had almost completely vanished?!?!
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/markus250/Stanton%20Air%20Raid%20Shelter%20Revisited-%2013th%20June%202010/100_6222.jpg

And that's the lot! It was raining very heavy so we didn't venture near the other water filled shelter as we figured it'd be even deeper water so we'll prob be back there at some point...when the cows are gone that is

Markus