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mookster location:
Oxford, UK
 
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Bomb Proof Records Rooms
< on 6/25/2020 4:16 PM >
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Where better to go on the hottest day of the year than a nice cool underground location.

The history around it's use as a secure records store is pretty hard to find, as presumably the local council wanted to keep it's purpose and contents on the quiet as the records and documents and stuff stored inside was sensitive and valuable. Originally though the tunnel was constructed as part of a short-lived branch of an established railway. The branch was closed and dismantled in 1922 to make way for a main arterial road, which left two tunnels on the old branch line disused. The longer of the two, at 160 metres in length, was repurposed as an air raid shelter and later in the 1970s/80s it was turned into a shooting range, abandoned in 1997 after changes to gun laws were brought in. The shorter tunnel, at 65 metres, became the secure records store in around 1940. In the 1980s the council moved to a new building and it's around this time the records store became redundant - it's contents were transferred to the new location and it was closed.

The rooms themselves are split into two levels, most of them are empty save for either metal or very rotten wooden racking, however the upper levels at the very end contain a number of beautiful rusty trunks which stored deeds and other important documents for the most important and influential people in the city. Some names were recognisable - Fry (chocolates) and Wills (tobacco) - and some boxes dated way back into the mid 1800s.

Overall a very enjoyable, nicely cooled place to see.

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Punchy location:
NC
 
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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 1 on 6/25/2020 4:27 PM >
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Way cool. Love it. Especially those trunks.



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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 2 on 6/25/2020 6:01 PM >
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Wow. Super neat.



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Aran location:
Kansas City
 
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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 3 on 6/25/2020 6:35 PM >
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Awesome find! Is that a safe or a vault door in #9? Either way it's pretty cool.



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Goste location:
SF East Bay
 
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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 4 on 6/26/2020 1:43 AM >
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Wow this place is awesome! It's inspiring to see a place with such history for once not being trashed by graffiti and vandals. Walking through that water in that tunnel had to be fun though!



mookster location:
Oxford, UK
 
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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 5 on 6/26/2020 9:21 AM >
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Posted by Aran
Awesome find! Is that a safe or a vault door in #9? Either way it's pretty cool.


It's a safe door, recessed into the end of the tunnel by about six feet. So I assume it at one time had a long handle on it, and inside was a long tray that would have slid out as there was no possible way of getting to it otherwise. Very unique.

Posted by Goste
Wow this place is awesome! It's inspiring to see a place with such history for once not being trashed by graffiti and vandals. Walking through that water in that tunnel had to be fun though!


The whole tunnel had about 10cm of water in it which made it interesting to navigate, it's also helped keep the casual idiots out. Sadly I can't see it staying too mint for too long as the council who own the tunnel have a £20 million COVID-19 related debt to pay off and so I think sealing up an old tunnel is quite low on their list of priorities!




Pearson location:
Chicagoland/Sometimes Austin
 
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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 6 on 6/26/2020 5:55 PM >
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This is fucking awesome, nice work.



Arch-Image location:
DFW
 
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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 7 on 6/29/2020 2:05 AM >
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one of coolest finds I have seen in a while actually! Great Job!



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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 8 on 6/29/2020 2:31 PM >
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This is just a wicked cool set. Thank you



Sheavy location:
Hoover, Alabama
 
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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 9 on 6/29/2020 4:44 PM >
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Amazing, unique set.



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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 10 on 6/30/2020 7:10 AM >
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Amazing set. Thanks for posting.



mookster location:
Oxford, UK
 
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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 11 on 6/30/2020 9:27 AM >
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Thanks all, it is certainly a unique spot! Not at all my usual fare but I do like stuff such as this.



Urban Downfall location:
Montréal - Qc
 
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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 12 on 6/30/2020 11:43 PM >
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Dude this place is amazing! Those case are so fucking old!



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MisUnderstood! location:
SouthEast, Texas
 
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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 13 on 7/3/2020 4:17 AM >
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Very cool find. Love all the rusted trunks. Really great shots.



A place of Mystery is Always worth a curiosity trip!
nutekk location:
Central NJ
 
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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 14 on 7/22/2020 7:08 PM >
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very cool find!!! thanks for sharing



cheers !

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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 15 on 7/23/2020 2:42 AM >
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What a super cool place ! Those boxes, the tunnel... Everything seems awesome here, nice find !




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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 16 on 7/23/2020 2:51 AM >
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amazing find



Galasium location:
Sonoma County, CA
 
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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 17 on 7/23/2020 9:24 AM >
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What an incredible find! It's refreshing to see a complete absence of graffiti in a spot this nice.


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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 18 on 7/26/2020 11:24 PM >
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I gotta go exploring in Europe, all your bandos are more untouched then here in the US



Baldran location:
The Ira Bemis House
 
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Re: Bomb Proof Records Rooms
<Reply # 19 on 7/29/2020 12:08 AM >
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This is such a cool find. I keep coming back to this thread just to look over the tunnel construction and the record trunks again. What a unique space.



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