Feb 052020
The rediscovered Ferndown O.B. (Dorset) was excavated last year by CART. As is quite common, the local kids used to play in it, but perhaps were unaware of the significance of the structure – definitely not an air-raid shelter.
With support form the local council, part of the bunker will be permanently viewable, complete with the unveiling of an information board.
It was hoped that this would take place this coming weekend, but due to the very bad weather forecast and expected storm Ciara, this had been postponed. We will update you when we know more. All are welcome at the unveiling.
I can’t believe I’m seing this,50 years ago I and my mates used to crawl through “the old air raid shelter”when the building developers Dare and Laing had stopped building houses on the forest.It was still away from the non kid public,so it stayed secret .(now they’d be along in 2 minutes to fill it in H&S).I still have claustraphobic thaughts of the escape tunnel part.