Lydden Spout Battery Plotting Room
The main plotting room viewed from in front of the plant room. you can see the emergency exit where i entered from. It is also where the main venterlation to the bunker came in.
A view from the emergency exit towards the plant room. You can see where some equipment use to be mounted to the walls.
This door leads off into the rest of the bunker & to the original bunker entrance.
Another shot of the exit from the plant room using a full flood flash. Plenty of complimentary graffiti all over the walls down in this bunker.
The main ventilation ducts in the plant room. House filtration chemicals to protect against a gas attack.
The main selenium rectifier for all the equipment in the bunker up on the wall in the plant room.
Looking up & out the emergency exit of the bunker. Now the only way in or out. Careful if you ever do manage to get access to this bunker. The ladder is rusty & quite wobbly. Only one person at a time should use it. The ladder is about 7 meter long.
Another shot looking at the emergency exit door from thew door that leads to rest of the bunker. My torch is attached to the door via a magnet for a nice moody effect.
A view looking back towards the main plotting room in the bunker. from a few rooms deeper in the bunker.
This is where the main entrance was, in fact from the surface there are two entrances, but the filling of earth & rubble blocks access to the other entrance you can find the remains of on the surface.
There is also a door to a very small room that I am not sure of its purpose.
In the small mystery room you can see some conduct still remains. It does not look like a room that housed much equipment back in the day.
From inside the small room looking out towards the exit. You can see the fill in is quite bad here as it almost closed the door making the room inaccessible. Luckily the door remained ajar enough to squeeze though. Also the walls were slimy to the touch & very grim.
Looking at the plant room from the door to the rest of the bunker.
One of the few undamaged ventilation ducts in the bunker. Most of them are missing, hanging down or just pain missing. You can also see reniments of where the power wiring came in & the communications from rest of the battery.
A view of the back wall between the emergency exit & the plant room. Behind all the crappy graffiti you can see where electrical boxes & other equipment was mounted & is now long gone.
You can also see where conduits lead to toughs in the floor where wiring could be distributed to other equipment around the plotting room without being a trip hazard to the people working there.
Looks to be whats left of a communications cable conduit disappearing into the wall & other parts of the bunker.
The wall with the door into the rest of the bunker also had a whole ton of equipment mounted to it. It also had a conduit leading to the cable tough in the floor of the main plotting room. These cable toughs were also common in radar stations for the same reason.
Looking into the rest o the bunker from the plotting room, not much to see until you get though the hallway & turn left at the end.
Few looking into the plotting room at the emergency exit from the door that least to the rest of the bunker.
The two rooms between the entrance that is filled in & the plotting room hallway seem to be cloakrooms based on the fact you can se remains of benches from them.
This is looking from the end of the hallway plotting room side.
Looking into the bunker from the bottom of the ladder. This is the only way in or out the bunker these days as the other original entrances are filled with mud & rubble.
Another shot from the the entrance into the bunker but from half way down the escape tunnel, the main floor of the plotting room was about a meter down from that.
Here you can see filter units, Sadly all ground into the ground. Apparently these contained materials that you don't want to breath in (Good to know they are not trampled to dust where walking can kick up the dust). They look like they were stored in draws of a filing a cabinet that got crushed as there are remains of it on the floor.
The only operational way in & out the bunker. The green lid is quite new & was pad locked, but someone cut the pad lock. The door is very heavy & requires two people to lift it. Right next to the hatch is the remains to the two vents coming out of the ground.
Be careful lifting this hatch as it would be easy to slip & fall down the shaft. It is 7 meters deep which would most likely result in some king of injury or death.
Another shot of the only accessible entrance from lower down.
The top of the main entrance that is filled with mud from the inside. You can get up to this but not past it.
Looking into the filled in entrance you can see the buckled remains of the ladder & some of the rubble/mud dumped down the hole. It has been there long enough for plants to start growing.
The second entrance, completely inaccessible from inside & out. The only way to get into this part of the bunker would be to dig out the dirt & rubble. I would love to do this, but sadly don't have the connections or resources to dig out the rest of the bunker.
A close up of the second burred entrance to the plotting room bunker. The other thing this could be an entrance to is the dressing station, as they did use to lead up to the top where the rest of the buildings for the battery were.