I have just been told of an old anti-aircraft battery take a look near Penketh Warrington.
Aparently it isn't used for anything.
Map here
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie= ... 2&t=h&z=19
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Looks very good, but there are a couple of VERY close neighbours and they'll be the pains in the neck no doubt!
Looks very good, but there are a couple of VERY close neighbours and they'll be the pains in the neck no doubt!
well from my own experience is about engaging people and try to get them "on side". You never know they might be advid ww2 fans. Looks nice though.
I am told the neighbour is the site owner but not checked this out yet or even visited but told it looks good, anyway I am still pursuing a previously mentioned place again.
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I just had a word with Dan my Burtonwood mate and he said this was one of 3 anti-aircraft batteries that defended Burtonwood, next to this one was an Italian POW camp. (strange they would have a POW camp next to a huge airbase 
)
The guy that told me about this is an urban explorer he goes abseiling into tunnels etc.
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/
Maybe this is worth browsing
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/for ... 5b4911&f=5
More fun places to look over on my doorstep 
RAF Croft Warrington
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/sho ... hp?t=54145
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Your problem with using non-airsoft sites is one of insurance, which ain't cheap.
Your problem with using non-airsoft sites is one of insurance, which ain't cheap.
Good point and something I will be looking into if I find a good place.
Anyway looking over this web site is quite interesting.
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/for ... 5b4911&f=5
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Alex and I had an explore of RAF Croft, sorry about the poor light. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rep0zBGlbMo
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"Bit of concrete, with a hole going down... ...could have been a bunker..."
Cesspit (Don't try excavating the 'bunker entrance' 
)
RAF Tuddenham has it's fair share (I've counted 7 in Tudds' so far - and that's just near the buildings & foundations that remain!)
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Your problem with using non-airsoft sites is one of insurance, which ain't cheap.
I think the point was it would be excellent to be developed as a NEW airsofting site. From walking it, it has potential to be a great Urban site. Not only the huge building which looks to be structurally in pretty good nick, but also the 5 or so wooden buildings which have been taken down (in pieces) and stacked in various areas of the main building; which could be easily re-erected. Hard standings in the land around the building could easily be used as foundations to construct them on.
Most of the large external doors have been stacked inside as well and they are very substancial.
@McVickers: Cesspits...nice! Although the basement looked interesting but was flooded up to ground level...anybody got a WHACKING great big pump?
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...anybody got a WHACKING great big pump?
I'll be over in a jiffy!
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You might be there a while...bring sandwiches!
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1eye - got to be careful with a lot of the ex MOD sites listed on 28dayslater. We used to have a problem with one of the sites that I used to work on getting fairly regularly broken into by those twats.
Why were they twats? Because there was an awful lot of nasties on those sites (loose Asbestos was the least of the problems!), and they aint signposted....
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When we were an Empire it was run by an Empress
Now we're a country we're run by a..........
28DL is an interesting site, thats for sure - unfortunately a fair proportion of the people who post site reports on there aren't that smart when it comes to self preservation.
When we were a Kingdom it was run by a King
When we were an Empire it was run by an Empress
Now we're a country we're run by a..........
28DL is an interesting site, thats for sure - unfortunately a fair proportion of the people who post site reports on there aren't that smart when it comes to self preservation.
Yes you do have to take care when you go to places like that, at least we had a torch but only just as you can see I forgot to take a proper one with us. We had been to Burtonwood first to have a rummage in some of the old stores for misc radio parts for a project.
They guys told us to go and check Croft out as a site, they say the owner lives a few houses away and she is in her 70's and inherited the site, so it sits there un-used and mainly hidden from road.
We did find some what look more like air raid bunkers we didn't video, they had ladders or more open stair entrances all filled up.
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