Explore the tunnels

Our museum is underground. Here you can see a 3-D plan of the tunnels. Imagine that the rock above the tunnels has been cut away.


Image: This picture, taken in March 1941, shows the entrance to No. 2 tunnel, guarded by a soldier.


Image: This picture, taken in March 1941, shows the foot of the emergency stairs hewn out of the solid granite. The passageway emerges on the clifftop above.


Image: The west end of the South Tunnel in 1947.


Image: This picture, taken in March 1941, shows the blastproof door near the mouth of one of the tunnels. The tunnel entrance was also shaped to prevent blast from hitting the door directly, as a further protection.

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