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Andrew Chatterton

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

How's it designed?

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

So basically you go in here and then into the main chamber.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

And it's exactly like the one in Coals Hill with the big elephant iron coming across.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

And inside it's been completely stripped out if there was anything in there.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

There was no chamber at the far end, was there?

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

It's just one chamber, which is a bit strange.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

My thoughts are whether this was actually used ever.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

I'm wondering whether it was built and then it was discovered.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

And so they've had to finish, just stop it and go and build one somewhere else.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

Or it was built quite near the end of the war and they just didn't bother to...

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

to to to furnish it so it was built in 42 or 43 if there wasn't an escape route bit do you reckon that was because they couldn't find a place where they could do that as well no it's quite easy to do i'd have thought because you've got a natural downhill this way i think they some didn't build it because they were realistic so if the germans were here oh

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

They were just like, well, we're stuck.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

You're more or less knackered.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

You might as well try and fight it out.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

At the moment, there's quite a lot of, as Sean said earlier, there's quite a lot of earth on top.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

And it's not bouncy.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

So at the moment, we're pretty good.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

So it's usually veterans telling us exactly where they are or giving us clues like today.