WWII RAF Underground Abandoned Bomb & Ammunition Store /Depot Llanberis
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Join me as I visit and explore an abandoned Bomb & Ammunition Store Depot underground in North Wales.
We find two disused railway tunnels, a large open area that was once underground....
A huge indoor storage area along with a little look at the accompanying quarries
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The Royal Navy had another underground storage facility at a place called Tracwn near Haverford West. It went under the hills for miles.
I came here for Ladybower and stayed. Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for the explore and all the information.
It's changed a lot since I was in there, more graffiti, more mess and parts blocked off. The old tunnel lead to an open quarry. Great video. God bless
Thanks very much for watching. We were lucky the main door was open
What an incredible and historic place. It's incredible that places like this are not better preserved and left to rot. Would make a great place for an illegal rave too :D
I went to an illegal rave couple of miles from there by the miners cottages 😁
Hi Ant, thanks for the tour, 40 years since we were there, the narrow gauge tunnel would have been single track as the wagons were much wider than the track. RAF Fauld is similar to this place but sadly all entrances are now buried.. Oh and there was no graffiti or plastic bottles in these places but there were various wagons with steel wheels/chassis with wooden tops and drop down sides...great explores back then as well as today. Thankyou..
Wow wow wow you have excelled yourself again with this explore. Amazing. The music you played was poignant. Don’t know if that’s the correct word. What an outstanding film. Thank you. The lagoon was something else. Stunning.
You picked a lovely day for this one Ant. I bet that lagoon won't look so friendly when there's a dark, stormy sky.
Bloody amazing thanks Ant from Australia
Very enjoyable Ant, loved this one but didn't half have to squint and scan g.maps to find it..it's not marked ! Thanks again for another great effort.
The quarry is amazing thanks you Ant, you care now. That look a risky tour at times.
Its one of the more unusual abandoned train stations, Cool explore.
Fascinating and unusual piece of railway exploration.
Hey Ant, great explore mate. What an interesting place
Thank you for the precarious tour today. Glad you made it out safely. See you on the next. Cheers Ant! 🏴🏴🙂👍🇺🇸
nice to see you back in wales
Great video .I hope you do some more military installations.They are very interesting places
What a fantastic video. That place was flamin enormous. Gosh looks like you could get lost in there. Really loved this thanks. Please stay safe and take care
Fascinating explore, really enjoyed that
Fascinating. Thanks for making the effort to show it to us.
Fascinating explore there Ant. That is the weirdest ex wartime place I've seen on TH-cam, thanks for bringing it to us.
Hey Ant, great stuff, loving this vid, forgotten WW2 history in plain sight. Not so keen on that deep green water quarry!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Atmospheric tour. Another well done Video Ant ...thanks
Thank you so much Mike 🙂
Seriously good explore. Surprised it's still open. The water is seriously deep!!
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Thanks very much Phil
Brilliant Ant, such a maze of tunnels/ rooms, ,never seen anything like it, and a lift as well,what a find that was, not forgetting the Lagoon,brilliant explore,😀 x
Fascinating video Ant, never knew the place was there and I've been to Llanberis quite a few times.
Me too, another Welsh discovery
Wow that was very interesting and what a big space thanks for sharing Ant xx
Amazing tour!!! Really enjoyed this episode! Thank you again for your time and effort to provide these great adventures.
We used to go there on our motorbikes in the early 1960's for the Dragon Rally. There were hundreds of bikers camping there for the weekend, and there was a headlight parade over the tops when it had got dark. There were a number of surface buildings still standing from what I remember - I recall one with those big ablutionary circular hand-washing fittings. I still have the commemorative enamel badges that we were given on arrival, a different design for each separate year.
Great video, I'm surprised this is still accessible. It's a great place for lightpainting photography during daylight hours in those tunnels...
Hi Ant I was looking forward to seeing this one, I have seen other videos and I was wondering if someone had opened the yellow door in the back, I only know of one person who has gone past it. But he didn't go far. Thanks again for the video.
I went last week with three friends. Two of the three had been before and they had been through that cut out.
They said it was a wellie job as it got wet but they want to go back properly with proper torches. We were under prepared and only had torches on our phone.
Very interesting. I'd love to get a digger in there to dig up the buried stuff and metal detector it to
Very good Ant.Nice to see a different topic
Thanks for another great advanshire round the query and bomb store, do you think the Llanberis railway way was involved..
Amazing place. Bit like the caves in withshire. Amo store's
Great video Ant a bit different from your usual ones but great all the same. 👍
Nice one Ant !
Good one mate it made a nice change.
Fascinating!
Thank you Michael
I have a feeling that IF anyone was stupid enough to crawl into that partially blocked tunnel that you showed at 6:55, it probably opens out at the other end of the blockage. I would strongly discourage ANYONE from attempting it, although a remote control car with a camera attached wouldn't be a bad idea at all! Thanks for uploading this! Very interesting! Subscribed!
Ages since I've been in there I mite go for a walk tomorrow. You want to check out the Dorothea quarry some time too.
Thanks
Thanks very much Robert 😊😊
Thanks Ant......fascinating
That yellow door with the square hole cut into it? I seem to remember there’s someone else on TH-cam climbed through the hole and went into the mine behind it. Wish I could remember who posted it
My friend has been through it, he said it gets very wet and had to stop. It is a wellie job.
It is a tight fit though, one shoulder through, followed by head and then other shoulder.
After part of that collapsing, a lot of UXB were dumped in Llyn Padarn.
They say the mod dumped lots of bombs in that quarry as the yellow door’d tunnel links to it. It cost them a hefty amount in the 60/70’s to clear it out. Hope they found them all..
Brother I don't know you, and i worry about your safety so I suggest that you take hard hat just in case one Moore thing I love your content it's very interesting and fascinating stuff I also love railway you are a brave man.
Great explore thx for sharing,imagine it being clear of graffiti and litter such a shame.
Thanks so much 🙂 It must have been remarkable back in the day
Amazing,thanks,makes you wonder what other places are still about.
Thanks so much. I'd like to do a few more like this so hopefully I'll discover some 🙂
I'm shocked how much there was. If it was me, I would have never been able to find my way out.
Amazing place x
I absolutely loved this place
My my mate took me there yesterday. I only live 7 miles away and I had no idea this place ever existed until he told me about it.
I've been walking around Padarn lake for years and had no idea that I'd been passing one of the tunnels that went right under the main road and came out right next to the public toilets at the start of the old railway track next to the lake.
That's where they'd load the bombs back in the day onto train wagons which is now a scenic footpath along the side of the lake.
I lost my mate and had no idea where we parked the van.
I got chatting to a security guard who told me they blocked the tunnels after they had a rave there back in the 90's. How I missed that rave I do not know. 🤔
The narrow and standard gauge tunnels you first explore go under the road to where the rail transfer sidings used to be alongside the lake. I believe they were partly backfilled with builders rubble back end of the 20th century. The brick linings to the arches were part of the reconstruction and stabilisation after the collapse and when there was still an intention to try and use the depot. The steps apparently led to wooden offices as you speculated. The lift was I believe bomb lift 2, lift 3 also survived, lift 1 was in the collapsed area. I think the quarry you explore towards the end may have been the route that was used to extract all the bombs from the collapsed area - these all had to come out along the escape tunnel and were then lifted 100ft to the surface by crane.
The narrow gauge was probably part of the original slate mine that may have been repurposed. the tunnel on the other side of the door looks like the mine.
Oh look it's in a WATER location too!!
PS: The walls inside that place are not thick or strong enough for it to an explosives storage site.
Like i said before in other comment before you removed it ... i have been to this bomb store quite a few times it is a awesome place... Great upload Thanks
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@@TrekkingExploration ok
@@TrekkingExploration Great upload anyways
Maybe joyoutube got rid of your comment I had same issue
27:11 : Why are those bolts so shiny?! They look New!
A fine example of what can happen when government bureaucrats impose cost and design cuts on a project- the builders were told to use less cement so the upper level floor was thinner than it should have been, there were initially two standard gauge sidings requiring wider and thus weaker arched passages, and there was a lack of skilled labour so many of the load bearing walls didn’t line up between the upper and lower levels creating shear stresses, add 100,000 tons of overburden and this is what you get!
This was very interesting. Some of that graffiti though...it makes you wonder why they bother!
Also Welsh place names you usually emphasise on the second syllable so the Ber in Llanberis sounds like the Ber in berry.
Typical, I leave to visit another system for a few decades, upon my return I find out there's been another war. Don't tell me the Germans have been up to their usual shenanigans again. Love this stuff can't get enough of it thanks.
What solid evidence is there that this was used for ammunition storage?
no construction documentation right? these structures are from the old world 400+ years old probably originally used to harness and program power from the water
27:10 : I wonder what that something could have been?
Are the tunnels in wrexham by any chance?
No, Llanberis in North West Wales.
Enjoyed this video. I guess that the war was in some aspects like the pandemic. Some serious panic spending by the government.
What is the postcode pls mate
why have no divers gone down to check the depth?
The powers that were obviously chose to ignore the fact that slate 'moves', thus the collapse.
This belonged to my mother's side of the family until it was sold for the war effort.
They obviously filled it in themselves and claimed it was an accident.
You should not believe any *Claims* made by *The Ministry of Defence.*
It would be nice to see some preserved ruins without trash laying around or graffiti everywhere. People are like cockroaches.
Couldn't agree more. I love this type of content but I'm always annoyed at the graffiti and rubbish people leave everywhere. It seems that these idiots can't bare to see a plain piece of wall without, for some reason, feeling the need to daub childish pictures and words all over it.
@@garyellis1437 Quite right sir.
Er, It’s called Llanberis
Oh the typo in the title. Thank you
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Fascinating place!
Thanks for watching 🙂
why have you removed my comment
Hi I haven't removed any comments? Thanks for watching
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Hi Ant,
My pal and I are planning to explore this bomb storage site next month.
Can you give any tips on where to park and an easy way to access the site.
Thanks,
Saaben.
Risking life to entertain. TAKE CARE SIR.
graffiti...why...
I know 😔