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wevsky
10-08-2010, 11:34 PM
Right to be honest i havnt done any research on this place due to the fact i was convinced i wasnt going to be able to get up to the entrance ..well without a ladder which we didnt have,so i apologise for lack of info as i just wanted to get in get report up and go bed!
Right myself nite walker and unclebulgaria after one failed attempt each and a lot of chin scratching manned up and got up the very old rope in the rain without slipping and injuring ourselves on the very wet chalk..didnt take a huge amount of pictures as it really isnt that big a place..Entry i do know was via an old machine gun post!!
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A great little explore and quite chuffed we got up there,and more imortantly got back down with out any injury as its a lot harder getting down for some reason..the pigeons scared the crap out of all of us and the baby ones nearly got squashed,any history of the place feel free to point out , i would like to hear it!!

Herbivore
10-08-2010, 11:40 PM
You're lucky: If you'd have gone there a year ago it would have been really hard to get in. Now the beech is about twelve feel higher than it was back then. Those chalk stairs once had a room at the top and until just a few years ago there was a brick pillar in the middle of the opening, all lost to the sea now.

All the history I could find on the place is in my post ...Here:-
http://www.urbexforums.co.uk/showthread.php/7768-St.-Margaret-s-Bay-Machine-gun-post.-Sept.-09.

wevsky
10-08-2010, 11:44 PM
yeah id realised it must have been lower a while back which is why rather than use rope to get backdown i climbed as much down the other side and jumped into the shingle about 7/8 foot where it was a lot higher than it was on the side the rope was tied!!..thx for link

boxfrenzy
11-08-2010, 12:59 PM
This looks good, and i like the lighting too :thumb

wevsky
11-08-2010, 03:23 PM
This looks good, and i like the lighting too :thumb

ah boxfrenzy..the lighting ive now found with my new torch is not needing very long exposures atal..even had to put my new toy on energy saving low beem which was still brighter than me maglite..so im working on my technique to compensate ..and thank you :)