DRAKELOW TUNNELS GHOST HUNT Date : January 31st Time of event 9:00pm to 4am Price of event £35.00 per person Address :Drakelow Tunnels Kingsford Country Park Near Kinver Kidderminster DY11 5SA We offer a non refundable deposit of £15.00 to secure your place, please note we will require FULL payment 6 weeks before date of event. *OVER 18S ONLY on this event. *There are NO sleeping arrangement on this event. Your event will include * An Over night Investigation * A Warm Welcome meeting with Xtreme Ghost Hunts UK Team * Refreshments ( Tea & Coffee ) * Mediumship walk around with our experienced mediums * Join our team on a 100% Vigil using our equipment K2 meters , Dowsing rods , Spirit boxes , Digital recorders , Digital Thermometers , Laser grid pens , Motions sensors * De- briefing meeting at the end of the night History on the event The Drakelow Tunnels are a former underground military complex beneath the Kingsford Country Park north of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, covering 250,000 sq ft (23,000 m2), with a total length of around 3.5 miles (5.6 km). They were originally built as a Second World War factory, and were developed during the Cold War to be a fall-back government centre. World War II[edit]Designed by Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, the Drakelow Tunnel Complex (originally called Drakelow Underground Dispersal Factory)[1] was excavated during World War II insandstone hills near the village of Kinver and the town of Kidderminster. It was originally constructed as a shadow factory for the Rover car company who were at the time manufacturing engines for the Bristol Aeroplane Company. It was also intended to supply components to Rovers main shadow factories at Acocks Green and Solihull, to supply spare parts, and to act as a backup facility if either of the main shadow factories was damaged by enemy action.[2] The cost of the facility was originally estimated at £285,000, and construction, which began in June 1941, was expected to take just one year. In the event, the underground factory achieved full production in May 1943 and the final cost exceeded £1,000,000. The site consists of numerous tunnels that stretch for around 3.5 mi (5.6 km), although public access on tours is limited to less than a quarter of the site. The tunnels contained dormitories, storage areas, workshops, electrical equipment, toilets, offices, a BBC studio, a GPO Telephones communications facility and other facilities. Cold War[edit]During the 1950s and the growing Cold War, the site was initially used by the Ministry of Supply for storage. Then around 1958 part of the site was developed by the Home Office as a Regional Seat of Government (RSG9). It was publicly exposed in a demonstration held there by the West Midlands Committee of 100 in the summer of 1963. Under later Home Defence schemes the bunker was designated a Sub-Regional Control (SRC), Sub-Regional Headquarters (SRHQ) and finally Regional Government Headquarters (RGHQ). The site was greatly modernised in the early 1980s, only a small portion of the site was designated for use. New blast doors were fitted in place of the previous wooden factory doors and the interior of the site was refurbished in the areas forward of tunnel 4.
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