I live quite close to West Moors Country Park. It’s great for a walk, the route I do is about two miles. Even better, it’s tarmacked for most of the route, making it good for a walk even if it’s been wet.
There is a small scale railway – I’m not sure what scale it is, but you can guess from the relative size of the passengers! On this particular visit there were signs for “Bunker Open Day”! I followed them.
At the farthest end from the main entrance the nature reserve intertwines with a golf course. What I was completely unaware of is that right in the midst of the golf course is a bunker from the second world war.
Above is one of the two entrances, the entrance is on the left, the lump of concrete to the right is a blast wall. Below as seen from inside. I did make an exposure of the main room, but instead of opening up two stops I closed down two, unsurprisingly the neg is unusable! That, just goes to show that less cameras/lenses and more familiarity with the one’s you use is a good thing!!
Below shows the bunker from the outside covered in earth and now foliage, and it’s location right in the middle of the gold course!
This was once open fields and during the second world war, a dummy airfield was constructed, fake buildings, even lighting to simulate backout, apparently when enemy planes were around, someone ran along a route with a red lamp in one hand and a green in the other to tempt the enemy craft to drop their bombs, thinking it was a real active airfield. A short distance from the bunker is a information board and a sight, to explain the set up.
You just never know what you’re going to find on a short photo walk! This time I took my Leica M4-P out with the Zeiss 35mm, loaded with a roll of Agfa APX 100. I developed in FX55 at 20 degrees for 9.5 mins.
Last photo for the day: a lovely old oak!
S.H.O.U.T. 