Posted on 06/12/2008 10:20:06 PM PDT by lowbridge
A blog following the unearthing by Pistonhead.com member CY88 of the german bunker at the bottom of his garden
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Monday, 2 June 2008
Background
People visiting this blog from Pistonheads.com may recall that in the "Secret Room" thread in early 2008, I said that I thought I had a nazi bunker buried in my garden. Well, since then I decided to get off my backside and excavate it.
Our house is in an old quarry, and when we bought it five or so years ago, the previous owner told us that there was a tunnel built by the germans during WW2. He said it was big enough to drive into, and that his father had buried the entrance during redevelopments, but not before filling it with stuff that lying around the property (?). He showed me the rough location, and I've marked it on this little map with a red dot....
(Excerpt) Read more at gardenbunker.blogspot.com ...
Berchtesgaden? ;’)
Wow! It’s really cool! Thank you for posting this.
is the "Knob and tube" style wiring in the overhead.
Common in the states prior to WWII, it involved separate conductors carried by porcelain "knobs" ( as you see them ) and tubes run through beams and walls.
The corrugated steel overhead seems to imply that they drove the shaft first, and then lined it.
It's certainly interesting.
BFL
You mean, Springtime for....you know who?
That’s the guy. He probably was a flower fan like everyone else. But he had some issues.
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