Update June 2023

Hello everyone - I've been uploading lots of new folders of locations, including the recent fab visit to Liverpool with Subterrenea Britannica 

I'm available to talk online, in person, on underground topics, air raid shelters and more on www.tunnelinspector.com 

 

Update 2022

Hello everyone - ive been uploading lots of new folders of locations, including Heritage Open Days 2021 with lots of Mining and concrete, the rather unique Murgatroyds brine pumps and visits to such varied places as the Manchester Jewish Museum, Bickerton copper mine, Leigh spinner mills and the Poynton mining trail.

Im availble to talk online, in person, on underground topics, air raid shelters and more on www.tunnelinspector.com 

 

Photo update 2019 /20  

Hello everyone - ive been uploading some old photos of the 2019 Spring conference for Subbrit, along with a trip to the Museum of St John and a lockdown walk around Poynton's mining heritage

Im availble to talk online, in person, on underground topics, air raid shelters and more on www.tunnelinspector.com 

 

Fame (sort of) 

Hello everyone who read the lovely article in the Manchester Evening News or the Mirror by Saffron Otter - im getting lots of attention across the socials - click the links on either side of the homepage to see them. 

If you would like to know more about underground Stockport i have a free talk available on this link: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAmaYPlxrZ4 

Im availble to talk online, in person, on underground topics, air raid shelters and more on www.tunnelinspector.com 

 

Underground Old Town 

Lovely wander round Stockport Old Town with Saffron from Reach Media / The Manchester Evening News talking about underground Stockport. 

Lots and lots of stairways involved :-)

 

 

 

Subterranea Britannica

 

Come and join the only UK wide society dedicated to underground spaces, man-made and man-used in London Saturday April 23^rd for the 2022 Spring meeting and Subbrit AGM. This is the first day meeting we will be having at the Canada Water Theatre and will be a great opportunity to meet up and listen to talks on all kinds of underground topics.

 

Sub Brit's AGM will start the meeting at 10:00, lasting approximately half an hour and will be followed by the Spring Meeting. This will include the usual mix of interesting, illustrated talks along with Members' contributions and a chance to meet and mingle with fellow enthusiasts.

 

Speakers currently lined up are:

 

• Emily Glass, who will talk about Albania's Mushroom-Shaped Bunkers and how they were perceived in the Communist and Post-Communist eras.

 

• Robert Stephenson from Kensal Green and Brompton Cemeteries. "The horror of premature burial". Premature burial has unquestionably happened in the past and there are some recent cases of people being saved from the brink. Who can contemplate this ultimate of horrors without being chilled to the marrow?

 

• Sarah Smart – Creating the first burial barrow for 2000 years. Why and how the Barrow was built and the challenges faced.

 

Any changes to the line-up will be advised via the website and the Programme will be published on the website nearer the time.

 

The Venue: this is a new venue for Sub Brit, although we have held Committee meetings here. The meeting will be in Canada Water Theatre, which is within the Canada Water Library building. This is two minutes walk from Canada Water tube station on the Jubilee Line (4 stops from Waterloo) and on London Overground.

Note: Every effort will be made to hold the meeting at this venue; however, if Covid-19 restrictions are in place at the time, it may be necessary to change the arrangements. This will be advised by email to all members and people who have booked.

 

The price (£27) will include refreshments – welcome tea/coffee (from 09:30), a buffet lunch and afternoon tea/coffee. Please ensure you book early to arrange the catering; if not possible then ‘Walk-ins’ on the day will be £30.

The Spring Meeting is open to Members & friends/relatives; Members only may vote at the AGM.

 

Optional Visit to Crossness Pumping Station

 

An optional, members-only, visit has been arranged to Crossness Pumping Station at The Old Works, Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, Bazalgette Way Abbey Wood, London SE2 9AQ between 11:00 and 13:30 on Sunday 24 April - the day after the Spring Meeting.

• The visit will include:
• an illustrated talk giving the historical context and build up to the Great Stink of 1858
• a guided tour of the Crossness site and engines. the Great Stink exhibition and wonderful collection of toilets.

The cost of the visit will include tea/coffee/soft drinks and biscuits on arrival.

You will be responsible for your own travel to the site and the easiest method of access will usually be by train.

The nearest station is Abbey Wood, which is around a 25 minute walk. Parking is also available onsite for a few cars only.

 

 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spring-meeting-agm-2022-registration-265338333097?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Lockdown update - 2020 and 2021 

Well - what can we say? What a shitshow 2020 turned out to be - cancelled visits and conferences left and right :-( 

Still managed a few local visits inbetween lockdowns so will be posting these until the world reopens and i can get back to travelling around the UK looking for holes to explore. 

Like the rest of humanity, TI and Subbrit have moved online - with a very successful series of online talks on all manner of underground topics - all FREE

Two of these are by myself - Underground Stockport and the Bunkers of Zossen. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAmaYPlxrZ4&list=PLkR2tfKMITVwJ6_8XCQBhp8WKCKnwK4jr&index=14