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Box Freestone Mine and Behind the Red Door
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:02 pm
by Turdacious
One of the largest Limestone Quarries in the area, Box was mined from Roman times and grown ever since. Mining stopped all together circa 1970.
Nowadays, the mine is a bat preservation area and only visited by cavers and explorers. The mine also holds a treasure in it’s crown. An area taken over by the MOD in the early 20th Century was used as a giant air intake for the underground top secret cold war complex next door….Burlington.
http://www.theurbanexplorer.co.uk/box-mine/
Re: Box Freestone Mine and Behind the Red Door
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:03 pm
by Turdacious
Cathedral
Re: Box Freestone Mine and Behind the Red Door
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:04 pm
by Turdacious
Brewer's Drift
Re: Box Freestone Mine and Behind the Red Door
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:05 pm
by Turdacious
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:06 pm
by Turdacious
Re: Box Freestone Mine and Behind the Red Door
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:06 pm
by Turdacious
Under the Corsham Cotswalds approximately eighty feet below ground beneath RAF Corsham, lies the UK’s largest underground bunker and for sixty years one of the best kept secrets in modern MOD history. Burlington bunker. Assembled as an emergency relocation site for the British government if the threat of nuclear war ever became reality. The bunker boasts some impressive ‘sections’ from a BBC broadcasting suite to a Hospital all accessible via 10 miles of ‘road’.
Adjacent to Burlington is over 30km of tunnels and passageways belonging to Box Freestone Quarry, part of which taken over by the MOD and turned in to an air inlet. For years, explorers like myself would marvel at the MOD area of Box Mine and the mysterious ‘red door’ that sits at the end of the passage.
http://www.theurbanexplorer.co.uk/burli ... wiltshire/
Re: Box Freestone Mine and Behind the Red Door
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:07 pm
by Turdacious
Re: Box Freestone Mine and Behind the Red Door
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:28 pm
by Blaidd Drwg
That is fuckin awesome.
This is the stuff you want to see when you visit other countries..not the ridiculous trinkets they lure you in with.
Re: Box Freestone Mine and Behind the Red Door
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 11:38 pm
by Fat Cat
During Tito's era in Yugoslavia, their national defense policy called for the country to contract from its borders onto Bosnia at a last bastion from (likely Soviet) invasion. They had already done it once, against the Nazis, and it worked so they spent 40 years preparing tunnels and underground bunkers deep in the Dinaric Alps. Apparently some of the installations are huge beyond measure, but I've never been able to see it myself. Check it:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picture ... me=3120270
Re: Box Freestone Mine and Behind the Red Door
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 5:56 am
by SubClaw
Blaidd Drwg wrote:That is fuckin awesome.
This is the stuff you want to see when you visit other countries..not the ridiculous trinkets they lure you in with.
I read somewhere that Seattle has a lot of underground places like that.
Re: Box Freestone Mine and Behind the Red Door
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 6:02 am
by Turdacious
SubClaw wrote:Blaidd Drwg wrote:That is fuckin awesome.
This is the stuff you want to see when you visit other countries..not the ridiculous trinkets they lure you in with.
I read somewhere that Seattle has a lot of underground places like that.
A lot of the larger cities on the W coast have them, even some you wouldn't expect to. Ape Caves by St. Helens are great but touristy:
http://www.panoramio.com/user/587955/ta ... .%20Helens
Re: Box Freestone Mine and Behind the Red Door
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 6:05 am
by Blaidd Drwg
SubClaw wrote:Blaidd Drwg wrote:That is fuckin awesome.
This is the stuff you want to see when you visit other countries..not the ridiculous trinkets they lure you in with.
I read somewhere that Seattle has a lot of underground places like that.
We do have some crazy tunnels and underground stuff that are awesome shooting galleries...so if you like H..that'sool. There's and bunch of shit not on the tour but nothing as epic as the above....Seattle's biggest draw is the fucking fish tossers and the gumwall.
Though wen EZ came to town I showed him some Emos having a crying picnic in the park next to Cobain's old place...that was a pretty big score.
Re: Box Freestone Mine and Behind the Red Door
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 6:20 am
by Holland Oates
The troll, the statue of Lenin, Alki, Mt St Helens and the beers were all awesome but the fat kid popping and locking at the bus stop was the highlight.
