Drakelow Tunnels - A unique underground experience.

A selection of photographs

		Start your journey three hundred feet under ground by passing through the one inch thick nuclear blast doors. Feel the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end as you leave daylight behind thousands of tons of steel and concrete.
Explore multiple tunnels and annexes each one over a 1000feet long. Built to house up to 500 personnel for three months or more, catering for all their daily needs as they defend a country in crisis.
		Deep inside the tunnels, built in the late 1930s, are the original offices which housed the hundreds of workers. Follow our experienced tunnel guides as they lead you through the intricate network.
Obsolete technology is modern history. Still in place, as if abandoned yesterday, are the then state of the art computers and associated equipment. Once relied upon for the defence of the realm, today they have less computing capacity thana desk calculator.
		The giant ventilation system was an ever-present hum; the artery feeding the tunnel network with vital purified air.
The original management offices, once a mundane workplace, now a ghostly reminder of subterranean toil. Don't miss the period hand drawings on the walls. In a thousand years from now they will be considered alongside the Lasceaux Cave Art?
		Giant generators: Just a small part of the self-contained electricity supply fed from huge turbines producing hundreds of kilowatts. They would automatically spring into life at the darkest hour when the National Grid failed.

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