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Thread #119578   Message #2596125
Posted By: Pierre Le Chapeau
24-Mar-09 - 10:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: Underground tunnels in Rochester (UK)
Subject: RE: Underground tunnels in Rochester,
Not all tunnels are under ground.
I visited a house in Chislehurst believed by it occupants to have tunnels under it and found meself crawling through the stilt brick foundations that supported the House.

Ironically a bit like The Bickley Arms Adventure I mention in the above Thread.

Rafflesbear I will look into that from Google Earth Thanks.

In the Half Stone Mines in Godstone Surry there is the remains of a Dead Shire Horse.
And a fitting plaque carved into the Sandstone crediting the creature for its hard work.
It appears quite clearly the unfortunate creature was shot through the Head.
Richard Re Scrape yards.
Outside surrounding the entrance of The above was once a compound which was littered with a assortment of Volvos a graveyard indeed.

It appears the owner of the place had a liking for such things. There is a couple of those half timbered Morris Minors also. all rotting away. Covered in green slime.
A fitting reminder to a bygone age. The volvos are The 244s ? Im no expert. But from memory

They are The Volvo, Estates where once inside, if you did not put your seat belt on you had a big red square box on the dashboard that flashed and let out a irritating clicking noise untill one went quite Mad, That you put the bloody thing on.

Such things are common in cars these days but I think Volvo were the first to introduce it back in the mid 80s. I am sure it was the Volvo 244DL.

The Camden Chalk mines in Chislehurst are littered with junk because they are housed these days at the rear of a builders yard and the builder has filled the enterence with all his site rubbish. Old cement mixers and bags of gone off cement.

I scrambled the builders mountain of rubble and got in through a hole some 2ft wide and 18 inches high for some 15ft then broke out in to the main workings. I spent about half hour down there and venture out with a tin bearing the name.

                            J&F Bell.
                            Three Nuns Tobacco.
                            Empire Blend.
                            Glasgow.
                            The Tobacco of Curious Cut.

I still have it and have found a image of it on the internet under the above name.

In the Listening post at Berlin Gap I found a pair of ladies M&S Knickers hanging off the ventilation ducting, I believe they were white once upon a time but they had turned a Marsian Red colour and hung in tatters stained Green. The Red and Green caused by acids in the vent duct staining the material.
I hasten to add I did not keep them.
Regards to all Pierre.