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Andrew Chatterton

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

So that's just an air vent coming out.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

That's the air vent.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

But often they'd have a chimney in a tree like that, so it would go up further, and the smoke from the kitchen would then vent at the top of the tree line, so it wouldn't go through the forest, so the Germans couldn't see the smoke.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

So, this is the hatch.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

So, this is a much more, obviously, a much more obvious hatch.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

It would be complete.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

So sometimes this, you'd stick on foliage, so you'd do it completely covered.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

Sometimes it's just a tray over the top of it.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

And honestly, it wouldn't be, it'd be completely flush to the floor.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

So this is there for health and safety, which they didn't tend to worry about.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

so this is much more obvious but if you can imagine it flush to the floor covered in leaves and foliage without a distinct path or a memorial

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

You literally wouldn't be able to see it.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

I wish I'd said that in front of everyone.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

And you might remember, so there's different ways of getting into it.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

So they had genius ways of either letting the people down there know that you're on top.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

Oh yeah, how would you... Some were literally on a counterweight system, so you'd stamp on the hatch and it would pop up.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

Oh yeah.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

Others, you'd have like a specific coloured marble...

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

which you'd roll down what looked like a mouse hole, and it'd roll down and enter a tin down there.

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S9 Ep 328 Where's Joe Now - Underground bunkers at Coleshill House

It would have rolled all the way down into the bunker.