When You Find A WW2 Bunker... In Your Garden! | Forces TV
A man who bought a new house in Middlesbrough found something that was not in the property's details - a Second World War bunker. Chris Scott discovered what he thought was originally a drain pipe cover but once he opened it, he saw a ladder leading underground...
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Sea Cadets bringing back power to disused bunker
A group of sea cadets are helping bring Cold War-era generators back online as part of their training.
Hitler's Football Trip To England Is Rearranged
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Documents reveal tunnels hidden under UK streets
Secret subterranean Britain mapped for the first time:
New documents reveal the labyrinth of tunnels under
hidden under UK's streets.The existence of a secretive network of Cold War era tunnels under the streets of Britain has been revealed after a massive cache of data was made public.The huge dataset, released by the Land Registry, contains details on 3.5 million land titles across UK. They are under the ownership of corporate bodies in Britain as well as councils, companies and housing associations. Other underground tunnels and structures that vein across subterranean London have piqued the curiosity of urban explorers for years, particularly Churchill's Cabinet War Rooms and the Mail Rail.
Last remaining? UK 2WW Gun battery Grey Point Fort Bangor
I'm over with son Ben (who is fliming, editing and providing the music), at the super Grey Point Fort Gun battery found at Helen's Bay near Bangor, to give you a glimpse of what you can expect to see if you pay a visit. This has to be the last or one of the last remaining intact operational gun batteries from the 2nd World War anywhere in the UK!
The fort boasts one of the best working coastal gun batteries remaining in the UK! Indeed it may even be the only working example left! The 6 inch guns are fired on ceremonial occasions. When readied they fired 100 lb shells a distance of up to 5-6 miles and covered Belfast Lough in the event of a German sea attack. A similar battery, long since gone, covered the other side of the lough, across the channel at Kilroot power station.
The fort which holds a multitude of volunteer collected, military memorabilia, from miscellaneous war time eras, is open over the Summer months (Winter at weekends ) and it is all free! It is brilliant! Well worth a visit.
Also worth mentioning is the 2WW 25lb field Gun sitting in the grounds. The field gun on display is I believe a 25 pounder of WW2 vintage. The Ordnance QF 25-pounder, or more simply 25-pounder or 25-pdr, was the major British field gun and howitzer during World War II. It was introduced into service just before the war started, combining high-angle and direct-fire, relatively high rates of fire, and a reasonably lethal shell in a highly mobile piece. It is very interesting to note that last week, Sept 2104, the Kurds in Northen Iraq were using the exact same 'vintage' gun to good effect to defend their positions against approaching Isis forces!
Hitler fails Ofsted
Hitler receives the terrible news that his school has been awarded a 4 (an outright fail) in its latest Ofsted inspection. Initially some of the teachers fear it might have been their lessons but it turns out it was the data that was to blame so the leadership must take the rap. Hitler, who fancies himself as the Data King, bitterly resents the easy life Ofsted inspectors have but then it dawns on him that ...
COASTAL DEFENCE - SHORT
Minesweepers laying mines, excellent shots of convoy at sea (merchant), good shots of bombing of same, Destroyers turning in circle, Dover straits - ships being attacked, Dover coastal guns firing: fairly big. Map of Britain. LS of white cliffs of Dover. LS of soldiers running up sand dunes. Estuary with small rowing boat. Aerial shot following coastline of unidentified seaside resort - possibly Brighton. Pan across a group of anti-aircraft gun placements. Shots of guns being loaded, aimed and fired. LS of fighter squadrons of Hurricanes and Spitfires taking off and flying overhead. LS of aerial bombing of coastal area - enemy planes attacking British harbour? LAS of barrage balloons. Aircraft of Coastal Command - air to air shots, interior of cockpit, signal being given from inside cockpit. Flying boat - the Short Sunderland - shots of aircraft being moved into hanger. CUs of guns of Sunderland. LS of U-boats. Sunderland taking off from water. Inside cockpit of coastal command aircraft. Air to air shots of aircraft flying over ship. Trawlers, minesweepers and destroyers. Various shots of these ships at sea. Convoy - aircraft flying alongside. Various shots of merchant convoy. Enemy aircraft bomb ships and ships fire guns. LS of the bombing - very close to direct hits, some direct hits. CU of German mine (floating magnetic mine?) washed up on a beach. Work aboard a minesweeper. LS of men on board a minesweeper working together to pick out mine from water. Narrator explains the process. Good shots of work of minesweeping process including firing of guns to explode mines. CU of man painting chevron on side of ship's funnel - a way of showing how many mines have been exploded by each vessel. CUs of the men on board cheering. LAS of two men standing beside funnel waving their hats. Men on board ship laying mines to protect Britain's shipping channels. Various shots of mines being moved onto deck of ship and propelled overboard. Good overhead shots of the mines being dropped into the water. Laying mines at sea. LS of another defence system - the boom a net laid to prevent ships and submarines entering a port. Various shots of the ships which lay the boom nets. Army's part in coastal defence is detailed. LS of large coastal guns being fired, troops running across sand dunes, men at ready with guns, big guns firing, men scrambling, barbed wire defences, shots of men keeping guard over the coast. Two men of the Home Guard walk across fields close to the coast - patrolling coast. Training exercise for home guard. HAS large number of armoured vehicles moving across landscape and roads (this could be Home Guard training at Osterley Park). Montage of shots of barrels of large coastal guns, mines, RAF flying boats and aircraft, artillery, army pushing forward along coast - a montage of shots to show force of coastal defences in Britain.
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Julian Cope - Cambridge 2017 Culture Bunker, World Shut Your Mouth, Great Dominions, Treason +
Julian Cope - Cambridge 2017 Culture Bunker, World Shut Your Mouth, The Great Dominions, Treason, The Greatest Imperfection Is Love. The Teardrop Explodes - Un-Flawed Genius - He's the best
Bunker ship
Bunker ship leaving Rosslare Harbour, Wexford Ireland
Holiday in Britain 1971 Part 1 - Dover area
I get lost in a castle at Dover. Also the White Cliffs, and relics of pill boxes at their top. A narrated show of 35mm slides from 1971. Additional comments by the late Don Jeater of Weymouth.
Weapons & Explosives of Britain's Secret Underground Army - The Auxiliary Units
This is a teaser video for the full film. Weapons & Explosives of Churchill's Secret Auxiliary Unit - The full film can be bought here
The Auxiliary Units were to have been Britain's last ditch line of defence, operating in a network of cells from hidden underground bases.
You can read more about these brave men at coleshillhouse.com The website is dedicated to the men and women of the Auxiliary Units - both civilian and military - who volunteered for dangerous service when we most needed them.
History of Bombing 2 of 6
Aerial bombing became more widespread in World War I, ranging from attacks against troops to extended campaigns against large cities. Both sides disregarded the then-recently signed Hague Conventions, which prohibited bombing, and attacked military installations such as airship hangars and troop concentrations as soon as the war began in August 1914. In addition to small explosives, aircraft dropped solid-steel arrows called flechettes on enemy troops.
German airships were used as the first strategic bombers during World War I, but suffered heavy losses. They moved slowly and could be easily shot down from the ground. Later bombing campaigns over London featured multiengine airplanes. British and French bombers carried out similar missions over western Germany. The first bombs used in these attacks were converted from grenades and artillery shells, with fins attached for stability. Ultimately, bombs specifically designed for aerial bombardment came into use in all countries. Targeting equipment remained primitive and bombing was haphazard and relatively ineffective.
From 1919 to the beginning of World War II, bomb development led to more streamlined casings, better fusing, and more powerful explosives. The Unites States and especially Germany practiced dive-bombing, where a plane dives on its target and releases the bomb at low altitude. Bombing remained inaccurate, however, despite improvements in bombsights, and often the bombs would fail to explode on impact. In raids against large cities, hundreds of bombers dropped thousands of bombs per raid to blast structures or start fires. Naval dive-bombers saw greater success in their attacks against ships, while some fighter-bombers enjoyed success hitting single targets such as tanks. A few radio-controlled glide bombs, which were controlled by the bombardier, were dropped successfully by Germany starting in 1943; two sank the Italian battleship Roma as it sailed to surrender to the British. At the end of World War II, however, the basic bomb remained an unguided, gravity-driven weapon.
Smart-bomb technology first made a measurable impact during the late stages of the Vietnam War (1959-1975), where a few U.S. laser-guided bombs knocked down bridges that several hundred dumb bombs had missed. Bomb delivery became more deliberate because each bombs target could be chosen individually. In the Persian Gulf War (1991) between Iraq and an international coalition of forces led by the United States, smart bombs made up only 10 percent of the tonnage dropped but were credited with most of the damage. Special deep penetration laser-guided smart bombs were developed for the war to attack reinforced or underground targets. These bombs could find a target and penetrate deep into it before exploding. Dumb bombs were also used in the conflict and continue to be used by military planners in conjunction with smart bombs. B-52 bombers dropped thousands of tons of dumb bombs on Iraqi troop and equipment positions. Cluster bombs shredded defenses and littered the desert with unexploded submunitions, making Iraqi military movement (and postwar cleanup) difficult.
During the U.S. and British invasion of Iraq in 2003, a majority of the bombs used were smart bombs, particularly JDAM-equipped general-purpose bombs. Cluster bombs were also used, as were bunker-busting bombs, devices designed to penetrate underground bunkers housing Iraqi command and control facilities.
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Amelia and abi!!!!
Hitler finds out that the Christmas night out is at Hartlepool
Pit Village and Colliery a Bit of Old England
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The Mahogony Drift Mine is original to Beamish, having opened in 1855 and after closing, was brought back into use in 1921 to transport coal from Beamish Park Drift to Beamish Cophill Colliery. It opened as a museum display in 1979. Included in the display is the winding engine and a short section of trackway used to transport tubs of coal to the surface, and a mine office. Visitor access into the mine shaft is by guided tour.The colliery features both a standard gauge and narrow gauge railway - the former representing how coal was transported to its onward destination, and the latter typically used by Edwardian collieries for internal purposes. The standard gauge railway is laid out to serve the deep mine - wagons being loaded by dropping coal from the heapstead - and runs out of the yard to sidings laid out along the northern edge of the Pit Village.
On the standard gauge railway there are two engine sheds in the colliery yard, the smaller brick, wood and metal structure being an operational building, the larger brick built structure being presented as Beamish Engine Works, a reconstruction of an engine shed formerly at Beamish 2nd Pit. Used for locomotive and stock storage, it is a long, single track shed featuring a servicing pit for part of its length, visitors can walk along the full length in a segregated corridor. A third engine shed has been constructed at the southern end of the yard (i.e. the other side of the heapstead to the other two sheds), also in brick (lower half) and corrugated iron, and is used for both narrow and standard gauge vehicles (on one road), although it is not connected to either system - instead being fed by low-loaders and used for long term storage only.
The narrow gauge railway is serviced by a corrugate iron engine shed, and is being expanded to eventually encompass several sidings.
There are a number of industrial steam locomotives (including rare examples by Stephen Lewin, from Seaham, and Black, Hawthorn & Co), and many chaldron wagons (the region’s traditional type of colliery railway rolling stock, and which became a symbol of Beamish Museum). The locomotive Coffee Pot No 1 is often in steam during the summer.Alongside the colliery is the pit village, representing life in the mining communities that grew alongside coal production sites in the North East, many having come into existence solely because of the industry, such as Seaham Harbour, West Hartlepool, Esh Winning and Bedlington.Miner's Cottages
The row of six miner's cottages in Francis Street represent the tied housing provided by colliery owners to mine workers. Relocated to the museum in 1976, they were originally built in the 1860s in Hetton-le-Hole by Hetton Coal Company. They feature the common layout of a single-storey with a kitchen to the rear, the main room the house, and parlour to the front, rarely used (although it was common for both rooms to be used for sleeping, with disguised folding dess beds common), and with children sleeping in attic spaces upstairs. In front are long gardens, used for food production, with associated sheds. An outdoor toilet and coal bunker were in the rear yards, and beyond the cobbled back lane to their rear are assorted sheds used for cultivation, repairs and hobbies. Chalkboard slates attached to the rear wall were used by the occupier to tell the mine's knocker up when they wished to be woken for their next shift.
No.2 is presented as a Methodist family's home, featuring good quality Pitman's mahogany furniture; No.3 is presented as occupied by a second generation well off Irish Catholic immigrant family featuring many items of value (so they could be readily sold off in times of need) and an early 1990s range; No.3 is presented as more impoverished than the others with just a simple convector style Newcastle oven, being inhabited by a miner's widow allowed to remain as her son is also a miner, and supplementing her income doing laundry and making/mending for other families. All the cottages feature examples of the folk art objects typical of mining communities. Also included in the row is an office for the miner's paymaster. In the rear alleyway of the cottages is a communal bread oven, which were commonplace until miner's cottages gradually obtained their own kitchen ranges. They were used to bake traditional breads such as the Stottie, as well as sweet items, such as tea cakes. With no extant examples, the museum's oven had to be created from photographs and oral history.School[edit]
The school opened in 1992, and represents the typical board school. in the educational system of the era .
Teekay Australia | Bunker Barge Parmelia 1 (Timelapse)
The Teekay family is a global one, and it touches pretty much all marine energy sectors. Did you know that Teekay has technical management of some bunker barges, as a part of our partnership with United Maritime Australia?
Here is one of them in time-lapse action, courtesy of the Master of the bunker barge Parmelia 1, as it operates in Fremantle Harbour, Western Australia.
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(1/4) Hitler Visits Northampton & Billing Aquadrome
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Weary of his bunker, being shelled, and Eva not letting him wear his favourite leather shorts, Hitler orders his staff to book him a short break in England. Fegelein says he has heard good things about Northamptonshire, Rose of the Shires, and its surrounding area.
The bunker staff quickly identify Billing Aquadrome caravan park as the Northamptonshire holiday destination par excellence. All seems to be going well, until...
Hitler Finds Out He's Jewish...and Black (The Daily Buzz)
A DNA test result shows that Adolph Hitler was actually Jewish and partially black... here's his reaction.
hitler finds out that hartlepool has the bigest unemployment rate in england
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ABANDONED CLUTTERED FARM HOUSE - Everything Left Behind
In this video, We explore a quaint little farm house, This place has sadly been trashed, and the rest of the farm around it was too over grown to explore.
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