Doing it for the kids
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Look more like goggles, you learning to fly / swim 
Discovered a tunnel into a 17th century house
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Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
They found a beautifully built tunnel when the Time Team did their stuff at my sister's house. It turned out that the place originally had a moat, but the Tudors had covered it over leaving a now dry tunnel. They sent a robot camera up it, and it was interesting to see the quality of the brickwork.
We found another one at school under the mediaeval kitchen building. It was dry and tall enough to walk along and it came out several feet above the river. It carried on beyond the building but was blocked up with ancient stonework.
We found another one at school under the mediaeval kitchen building. It was dry and tall enough to walk along and it came out several feet above the river. It carried on beyond the building but was blocked up with ancient stonework.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
We just don't have cool old stuff like that over here.
Oh and
Oh and
Pieces_of_Eight
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That's what I first thought of.
I'd be straight in looking for treasure.
Edit: But please go to Speedy and hire a gas monitor first
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There was allegedly an old lead mine tunnel off a shore near some of my land that I set off to find around 20 years ago. After crawling in about 30 - 40ft I came to an area that was about 8ft all round, that’s as far as I got because a) The next part was full of rubble most probably tipped in from a vent stack and b) It dawned on me that not a soul in the world knew where I was & what I was doing so I made a sharp exit.
It’s now all washed in with stones from the tide.
It’s now all washed in with stones from the tide.
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
linga
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- Location
- Ceredigion
Good stuff.
Used to enjoy that. The smaller the passage the better. Preferably full of water too
- Location
- Cornwall
I’ve spent a reasonable amount of time underground in small and large Cornish mines, but tiny spaces full of water is where I draw the line! :brown trouser moment:
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
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Jon
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- Location
- South Norfolk
suffolksmallholder
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- Location
- Suffolk
As a child we were told by an elderly gentleman that there was a tunnell running from our farm to the PM's house. This old fellow showed us a badger hole & we were convinced this was so. Skip forward four years & this hole had turned into a major dig (for a six year old & an eight year old) & we had got two body lengths into the chalk (about seven feet) 'till we god bored & turned our efforts to something else.....We built a fab camp & slept out in this during all weathers.
Cut to today. The hole is still there, We never went back to the digging but there are some good memories.
SS
Cut to today. The hole is still there, We never went back to the digging but there are some good memories.
SS
Doing it for the kids
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As a child we were told by an elderly gentleman that there was a tunnell running from our farm to the PM's house. This old fellow showed us a badger hole & we were convinced this was so. Skip forward four years & this hole had turned into a major dig (for a six year old & an eight year old) & we had got two body lengths into the chalk (about seven feet) 'till we god bored & turned our efforts to something else.....We built a fab camp & slept out in this during all weathers.
Cut to today. The hole is still there, We never went back to the digging but there are some good memories.
SS
You would get arrested for that now, poor badgers!
- Location
- Hertfordshire
f**k that!!!
MickMoor
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- Location
- Bonsall, UK
In my late teens/early twenties,we lived in a seventeenth century house. In the cellar there was a tunnel that we were told originally led to the church next door and a pub across the road. Clue: St. Giles Church, and the pub was not the Duke William. We also were told that it had collapsed half way along. I still wonder why other things were more interesting to me to the extent that we never explored the tunnel. Bloody hormones.
- Location
- Highland
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