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ttxela
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7 years ago

I'm due soon to spend a week in Nottingham on a training course. I imagine a visit to the Trip to Jerusalem will take place but are there any other underground type sites that I should visit?

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Moorebooks
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7 years ago

There are a number of Sand Mines, was taken into them by Tony Waltham.

I note sad Brit are visiting in October might be worth looking at their programme for ideas

Mike

Morlock
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7 years ago

This should get you started.

http://www.tparchaeology.co.uk/caves/caveswebsite/

http://news.experiencenottinghamshire.com/going-underground-explore-nottinghams-top-ten-caves/

BertyBasset
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7 years ago

There are a couple of paid trips.

City of Caves. It's got a bizarre entrance. You start off in a shopping mall, take an escalator down, then the caves are under the foundations.

Castle Caves worth a go as well. A descending stairway from the castle courtyard with various 'windows' on the way down.

It's worth getting Tony Waltham's book if you don't already have it.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sandstone-Caves-Nottingham-Tony-Waltham/dp/0951971727

ttxela
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7 years ago

I've just ordered the book, the map with all the sites on also looks useful.

I shall report back after my visit :thumbsup:

Pete Monkhouse
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7 years ago

Your challenge surely is to find a discreet way into the ‘no public access’ Welbeck and Park tunnels 🙂 And then tell us how to get in!

Moorebooks
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7 years ago

Or talk to Tony Waltham who will know access arrangements

Mike

Moorebooks
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7 years ago

I came across this webpage is The National Justice Museum and organises tours of the Sandstone Caves ( although I believe they are man made ie Mined by man and not natural as the word cave suggests) hope its of use
http://www.nationaljusticemuseum.org.uk/venue/city-of-caves/

Mike

Miles_A
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7 years ago

You should definitely try to visit The Park Tunnel - it's one of my favourite spots in town. Great geology :thumbsup:

https://www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk/things-to-do/the-park-tunnel-p626771

ttxela
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7 years ago

#10

Thanks everyone, I'll definitely look to see a few of these :thumbup:

Praada
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7 years ago

#11

How did you find Nottingham? I live about 20 mins away, there are old air raid shelters which used to be sandstone mines, accessible via manholes around the city centre. Brilliant history and all well preserved with original ladies and gents lav signage still present. Also a bigger system located under hte old police and fire HQ, access via a little door in the HQ courtyard. The fire service used to run terrorist attack and nuclear attack drills down there, evident by the empty cereal boxes with radiation symbols painted on (I guess it was the device they had to search for).

You then of course have Nottingham castle caves which leads down into the oldest pub in the city! Very limited but informative paid trip 🙂

"I got enough batteries to live down here indefinitely!"

ttxela
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7 years ago

#12

In the end the training course I was on turned out to be a little more intensive that I expected and didn't leave much time free for exploring - it was also brutally hot which sometimes left me more inclined to retreat back to my leafy campsite glade.....

I did however make time to visit the 'Trip to Jerusalem' and I also did the Nottingham Caves tour that is part of a shopping centre (although I only just made it before they closed). I went up to the castle however it seemed to be closed for a 2 year refurbishment.....

daveb
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7 years ago

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I have visited Peel Street Cave a couple of times, though not for some years. This was securely locked up and we got the key via Nottingham Trent University, Dept of Surveying. Tony Waltham had originally worked there and set this up I belive. I think Peel Street was one of the larger sites. It's in the book with a survey. DaveB

Praada
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7 years ago

#14

It is sealed still, but you can access via a manhole above in a carpark 🙂 just need to manhole cover keys to pull it up, the residents didn't bother us as they watched from their kitchen windows 😉

"I got enough batteries to live down here indefinitely!"

Mr Sam
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6 years ago

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theres some WW2 shelters under the big old Police building on Shakespeare Street it was empty a few years back will have to look my pictures out.

Praada
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6 years ago

#16

You can still access it, we tried to access the old buildings afterwards as there were lights on but was vacant... We set the alarms off though and had to leg it!

Easy to get to the shelter though no alarms just the big compound gate to jump over. Loads of weird stuff down there such as fake nuclear bombs from training exercises when the police and fire brigade still operated out of that property.

"I got enough batteries to live down here indefinitely!"

Mr Sam
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6 years ago

#17

not a great deal to see in the buildings the staircase was quite nice art deco style and a few old wood panelled rooms of the same period, on some of the surrounding building if you look closely at the stonework its peppered with shrapnel.