The things you come across when your out working.....

While out and about working and doing my service calls in deepest Foggiest Cornwall, I came about this place down on the outskirts of a small Village in west Cornwall called St Keverne, about a couple of months ago now, and thought it all looked very interesting....

So while out driving around Cornwall one Foggy afternoon I discovered a new place to go and explore, which looked like some bunkers which had recently been exposed by the clearing of alot of the trees, close by a road that I'd driven along many times over the years but had never noticed anything there before as the area was heavily overgrown.

Recently though the landowners had been clearing away many of the trees and overgrowth to reveal what turned out to be three bunkers of various sizes, which I saw for the first time.

BUNKER NO 1 THE BIGGEST

So it was a place for myself and my friend whom I call The TV man to go and explore one Sunday afternoon back in July 2012, and it was a very interesting few hours that we spent exploring and capturing pictures and some video of what we saw that afternoon.

The weather was perfect that afternoon and I took no chances so had my wellie boots on as I expected mud, to which there was a fair amount around outside the three bunkers that we explored.

The first bunker which was to the west of St Keverne is the biggest one in height and size, constructed with reinforced concrete layers also some less protected areas used red brick expecially around the front entrance nearest the road, while the main area had lots of openings in the floor for pipework that was still there and probably for electrical cables long since removed, making it rather dangerous if you were distracted while moving around inside the place especially in the dark.

BUNKER NO 2 THE MIDDLE ONE

The Second Bunker in the middle was smaller in size and had various air conditioning and filtering equipment along along with lots of ducting that led into the main area of the bunker, various fuseboxes and electrical conduit was hanging down from the ceiling along with the remains of some wall mounted cable insulators leading out of the building through one of the walls.

We found this evidence of a type of Valve there lying onto of the air conditioning ductwork, picture of which I took of course, unusually it only had 4 terminal legs.

BUNKER NO 3 THE SMALLEST

The Third Bunker to the east was smaller again although it had 3 un connected entrances on three sides of the bunker it seemed to be the power supply plant to the other two buildings as the remains of various electrical switching equipment was present along with some fuse boxes of medium to heavy capacity. 

We decided to explore the ground on the opposite side of the road which had a rather inviting open gate and found several concrete standings dotted around, presumably for various buildings long since gone.

We came across an Air Raid shelter manufactured by the Stanton Iron works, made from Prestressed Concrete sections bolted together which then had a red brick entrance and has about 15 steps descending down to the entrance  of the shelter.