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A MAN was shocked to learn that his house was constructed over a World War II air raid bunker while looking into a hole in his driveway.\n
When Simon Marks\u2019 automobile wheel buckled, he assumed he had drove onto a flowerbed.\n Upon closer examination, however, he discovered that a portion of his \u00a3400,000 home\u2019s driveway covered a two-room shelter.\n The 37-year-old IT support specialist stated: \u201cThere was a huge void. I mistook it for a poorly designed garden or a sinkhole.\n \u201cI was just afraid that the home would go altogether. I texted my dad some images that I had taken.\n \u201cI discovered a ladder after rearranging a couple of the stones. I inserted my selfie stick into the opening where I could see two rooms.\n \u201cAs soon as my dad saw it, he recognized it as an air raid bunker.\n There are quite a few in this region, according to what we googled. It is in perfect condition and is constructed of concrete lintels.\n Luton, Beds. resident Simon speculates that the bunker could have been constructed during a German bombing raid near the home during World War II.\n He believes it to be 10 feet deep, having discovered it on a Saturday afternoon.\n An elderly couple who had built the house in the 1970s was the seller of the property.\n \u201cThe previous owner must have known it was there and he must have filled it in when he built the house and added a garden,\u201d Simon remarked.\n It was evident that he wasn\u2019t very concerned about it because it remained there until the hatch collapsed. I think it\u2019s fantastic, and if it\u2019s structurally solid, I want to remove it and keep it.\n \u201cThe idea that everything was crafted by hand is astounding. It ought to be preserved since it is a part of our past.\n The mud-filled shelter was almost completely filled, but there were still several other objects within, such as glass bottles and old newspapers.\n Using buckets, Simon and his 67-year-old father Gerald have been digging out the shelter since Saturday.\n They have accumulated a lot of muck in Simon\u2019s front garden and are almost halfway down.\n Since Saturday, it\u2019s been a matter of dig, dig, dig, Simon said. There are just another five feet left to go till it\u2019s completed; we\u2019re now approximately five feet down.\n \u201cThere\u2019s so much trash to get rid of that I think we\u2019re going to have to get a skip in.\u201d\n A wall has been sealed with bricks. Although I\u2019m 90% certain we won\u2019t discover any additional chambers, we\u2019re not positive.\n \u201cWhen the home was erected, they could have bricked up a wall to create room for the foundations. We\u2019ll have to give it up if that\u2019s the case.Play the Video\n After being found in a factory\u2019s cellar earlier this month, a hidden fire station that had been undiscovered for more than 60 years was finally photographed.\n Unusual pictures reveal equipment strewn on the flooring and clothes hung on the walls of a West Midlands shopfitting facility.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A MAN was shocked to learn that his house was constructed over a World War II air raid bunker while looking into a hole in his driveway. When Simon Marks\u2019 automobile wheel buckled, he assumed he had drove onto a flowerbed. Upon closer examination, however, he discovered that a portion of his \u00a3400,000 home\u2019s driveway …\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":78235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moral-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78237,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78234\/revisions\/78237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/boredkitty.net%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/01%5C/nintchdbpict000277646085-681x1024.webp%5C%22 "\\"\\""){kind=spacer}
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