Belsize Park Deep Level Shelter WORKING LIFTS ALARMS WENT OFF
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- Опубліковано 7 бер 2021
- Today we are going to take you on a mad trip to a very intact bunker called Belsize Park Deep Level Shelter. We were amazed to find that the bunker had fully working lifts and was quite clean of grafitti. The bunker had been used as a document storage facility but after the company Abbot Datatstores went bust all the stored papers and objects were removed and the bunker was left in Limbo.
This is also the place where a security incident happened after an idiot Urbexer called Matthew Hooper called the police and told them we were Terrorists.... that incident will appear in a future video.
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I cannot imagine the horror of clinging to life in one of these places with thousands of others knowing everything above you is literal hell on Earth
I used to work here in 1994 when it was part of Security Archives. I worked for the National Sound Archives - part of the British Library. We had a space for storage there with thousands of vinyl, audio tapes, CDs and also obsolete record players etc. There was a map of the area on a wall and the plan was two levels shaped like an 'H' on top of each other. We had one branch of on of the 'H's - I do remember passing by the archives of Decca and possibly Sony. I remember seeing a pallet stacked with large format tapes of Led Zeppelin multi-tracks and masters. We had to sort out excess copies of vinyls and dump them in a skip. I was there for a few weeks it was a bit freaky at times always glad when I got out.
Wow - I wondered what was stored there. Thanks for the info.
Book burning at the hoaders clubs..
The police that turned up to the alarms? Were they civilian police or military police, seeing as it’s still classified as a government building, ?lol
Interesting. All those documents that used to be there, if scanned, can be now stored on a single computer hard drive that's at your desk; boggles the mind.
Really interesting, but you might want to think about taking a gas sensor down those tunnels, There could be pockets of sewer gas which is both flammable and can choke you. have rescued people from tunnels that were overcome by gas in the past and its not too uncommon. Stay safe!
Would a mask prevent that?
HI , in the fire service we always use COmpressed Air Breathing apparatus, as if there is gas it may be from various sources and some cannot be filtered with a facemask that just tries to filter air, BA lets you breath safe air - you get around 40mins to an hours on a cylinder.
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Wow, that's the biggest underground complex I've seen explored.
When running out of oxygen it smells like burnt steel and those tunnels move like in hogwarts
Great to see that place again. Really good video.
It used to be run by some people called Security Archives as a commercial store, and we had a whole load of recording master tapes housed there. People like the Decca recording studios also had lots of stuff in one of the other tunnels. That was late 1970s. The lift wasn't always working ...
When they took it over from the government for its new purpose it was still full of the traces of having been a WW2 mass air-raid troop transit place. One side of the main tunnels had three levels of rectangular sprung bed frames on it, longways on, while the opposite side had them in bays, with the 3 levels of bed frames, with alternate blocks sticking out into the central passage way at right angles to the wall. In some cases the renters had put wire round a bay or two to make a secure locked cage for their storage. We just had our tapes in double-wall cardboard cartons stood on the sprung mattress frames, so that everything bounced around a bit! A few people had put some boarding on the frames, but it was all a bit disorganised. Later the operating company got a bit more fancy and they got round to putting in proper shelving, and accompanying people to access their storage areas, as initially I remember you just roamed around everyone else's stuff -- which was why some people had made their own lock-ups.
I don't think it was ever used as secure government data storage, or if it was, it was under the same Mickey Mouse conditions as when it became a private commercial site!
Gosh, i sure do love it when someone who has actually been there and done that, seen it with their own eyes and experienced it, chimes in with easy to understand history on something like this that otherwise may have never been accessible to anyone else. Thanks! =] gee, working there (or even just having a designated storage area there) sure must’ve been fascinating....
Around 48:00 that looks like a tube station connection that's been bricked up, with the up steps and then down to the shelter with a right angle to slow blast. Also the extraction vent intake is a giveaway.
The phone was a magneto ring phone with batteries for the voice circuit, used by the door wardens when the tube entrance is opened or closed, back to the shelter control room, which you haven't found yet, LoL 😁
Oooooooh. A bunker explanation and a working vintage lift. Perfect.
great video matt ,,nice to see no idiots have spray painted inside
Awsome find Mate!!! The great thing is all the archives have obviously been moved to somewhere new that we can investigate in years to come lol. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Amazing explore matt,cant believe how massive this place is ,again great stuff .
The buttons at the top of the doorways are probably to stop the children from escaping...
@Fraser67 definitely not! That might cause him to sweat out of his unsweatable glands... Can't be letting the press get onto that one!
Best one yet! It was bloody AWESOME
this is a very educational video...thank you for posting it for us. I hope you turned off all the lights before you left....don't waste the electricity!
That place is awesome, what a fantastic place. I wouldn't have gone in them lifts, you were brave doing that x
I was in one of those lifts when I worked there in the ‘80s. The phone rang. It was a wrong number and I was itching to explain to the lady that I was currently in a lift, going down to a secret MoD exchange which was below Charing cross underground. Had some proper adventures down there.
Sound amazing. Would you like to revisit it?
@@TheSecretVaultmany of the areas I worked in are still in operation, so no chance of ever returning. Something which always amused us, was how daft looking the various security passes were. I recall some tunnels being blocked off and sold some years ago. I was never bored when working down there and it was a real privilege to have done so... except for being mortar bombed by the IRA.
@@LysanderLH hmm any locations you are aware of that have been shutdown in the last couple decades?
@@geronimo5537 I haven’t been there since the mid 90s, so anything could have happened since then.
That was seriously good watching that, the place is absolutely vast although that sticking lift door wasn't doing much for my anxiety levels 😂 Loved the clip of the other explore at the end. How random was that guy, he totally threw me as well. "You goin in then" ... Er not exactly 😂
I love how when you thought someone was coming your concern wasn't "oh no, we're going to get caught and charged with trespassing. We need to hide or run away!" it was "Oh no, someone's coming, quick, _we need to run in deeper and see/ film as much shit as possible before we get dragged out!"_ Brilliant.
Love from Pakistan I mostly watch these videos and definitely much much better than most of today's movies and I really amazed how they built it
46:31 If that's the entrance/exit I think it is, it is a connection to an underground station. But it is not a public entrance, it is VIP's which is why it and the tunnel to it are so small. The part of the station it comes out into is not a public area and it won't take much to figure out the VIP's this entrance was intended for given what's close by in this part of London.
Someone else said in the comments that it connects to a station.
If this connects to nearby Belsize Park Station then that might explain why the lifts there are numbered 2, 3 and 4 only. 1 being in the deep shelter.
It does connect to the station, this was one of the u.k.w.m.o bunkers, also part of a chain of bunkers across London which was often linked by radio, as part of civil defence, the exercises were called London linked, and the only bunker not linked was the one that red ken livinstone was responsible for, seeing as his party was against nuclear war, they used to open their bunker to the public, therefoe not allowing us to complete the chain, ?
Sorry, ukwmo, equals united kingdom warning and monitoring organisation, part of the government’s civil defence system to advise the government of bombs and yeilds and directions, l,m sure if you google it ,you will understand, lol
With belzise park, were other bunkers, godge street, which was eisnhowers hq during the second world war, clapham, clapham south, clapham north, it was hoped that all the tubes would be connected to each other, forminf an express underground railway, with did not take off, also used by the bbc, for theatrical use, doctor who, blakes seven etc, used as dorms for American soldiers during ww2, so, very interesting history,
another fab secret vault explore thanks Matt thoroughly enjoyable episode.
This one looks good can’t wait to watch
A working lift wow 😳
Probably one of the biggest bunkers iv seen on the channel
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Another awesome video, thanks Matt! Can't get over the fact the lifts were working :-)
I did this in January we didn't see the wooden cap but maybe it was on the alternative staircase in that section nice vid 👍
Great explore what an amazing place that is I’d love to go somewhere like that. When the lift sign says manned from outside means that if you get stuck inside someone from outside the lift can call for help from outside the lift. When I saw all of you get in and the others had left I was worried for you. Be safe guys.
Awsome explore Mat. Love the old mercury arc rectifiers. 👍
about time we got another epic video ... loving it
omg thats well long tunnels down there , a very big place , the blue prints would be amazing to see
Really enjoyed that Matt, watched it on the big telly very cool. 😎
👍Cheers Matt it's Adiod Pea we had a live chat a few months ago, I just wanted to say. I've really enjoyed watching secrete vault since then your content as kept getting better better. So now me n the Mrs watch S.V like it's proper telly. "👾NICE!💀" Your like proper telly mate what an achievement like it or not you are the urb-X-man!!
Whatching this reminds me.....
Considering the UK is going to be carbon neutral by 2050, can I suggest the MOD and CO do a little rearch into where they have left the lights on?
Some years ago, 2010 ish; I was tasked with helping BT engineers find a telephone problem on a UK airbase.
Opened a `positive pressure building` from the cold war where the junction box was located.
Gas checked prior to entry then found ALL the lights were on...
Upon leaving I bumped into one of the site's electricians.
He said `I've not been in there since 1987`
I said `Oh...but you left the F'in lights on`
23-25 years....What has that cost the UK taxpayer I ask...
Very interesting video Matt,thanks for sharing
That was an epic explore loved it Matt and all the others
Very cool! Keep up the great work!
Subbed. Saw you in your waders the otherday. Awesome
Vids . Maca london.😊
Another awesome explore... definitely looks scooter-worthy
looking forward for this
just found out it's connected to a tube station, which is called Belsize Park station /tube
Its not got a direct connection - its just a nearby station. You cant go into the tube.
Another fantastic video mate
Thank you Matthew.
Brilliant videos Matt, loved it
They definitely been doing new work on this can tell with some of the brick Work
WOW WOW WOW . Thank you Sir for keeping us entertained during a crappy year of lockdowns .Keep up the good work :)
That was an excellent video loved it that the lifts worked 👌
Really enjoyed watching this, more so because of the great low light capabilities of the A7s ii you're using. Will sub for more!
Am I the only one who wonders how long it took to empty the archive box’s out of there 🤔
It took 5 months. I was part of the people who cleared it up.
@@DomWayne thank you! I can sleep better now I know, I’m not being sarcastic I’m genuinely going to bed now..
That’s a heck of clean up!
@@DomWayne what were the archives of?
@@AEggidy See Tony Visconti's autobiography. Motion picture negatives...... magnetic tape... and the actuality ( color negatives ) for that marc bolan movie. I understand that damp was an issue in some of the tunnels.
@@bryanearthloop2403 I will do but can someone explain what they were of. Like we're they general archives or what?
Nice one, liked the security at the end.
Urbexing suprizes Oh my!!!; )
Unreal wicked cool Boston approves 👍.
Amazing what a place nice job Matt 👌
1st class video to watch thank you take care kind regards from me kenneth
Good vid mate!
That was Amazing thanks for sharing
I worked on mercury arc rectifiers, awesome sight when operating under load.
And on the lower level of the long one they simply put sheets of plywood or something over the top of the WW2 shelter bed springs, so all beds are intact, including the bedframes running along the tube fastened to the outer tube wall.
Excellent as always 👍👍💯
No way was that guy at the end a security guard, I've never seen a security guard dressed like that x
precisely why he was dressed like that bud...
foreign and being stylish security... lol
Yeah, he wasn't
Alternate theory... are they using part of the site for a grow and he's the minder?
Brilliant, thank you 😊
Spectacular find!
Excellent!
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Thanks!
Just loved that, even hubbie been watching.
i cant believe this huge space is just left there unused... all the lightbulbs work, everything is clean... this is ridiculous. Also how do you even store documents in these vast quantities there, wouldnt the paper just rot?
long as the air is dry and there is no moister. these underground places are great for storage. basically paper can last forever in a consistent environment. can even find documents in the suitcase remains left on the titanic. but to answer your question. seems this place shutdown in 2020? so everything is recently abandoned with light maintenance crews.
🤣🤣 I have always sayed: dont touch anything! Ant there, you did it, the lift..! 🤦♂️
That "fan" thing you saw near the end is a Mercury Arc Rectifier. Very rare to see one installed, though I doubt it was "on" as you'd see a noticeable blue glow.
Great video! Whent down there last night tried the elevator and its not working and it makes a crazy laud noise which brang security. Came back next day and managed to get to the lower levels
Blows my mind that such a fully operational and useable bunker complex doesn't have 24/7 LIVE onsite security keeping it under watch. I sure as heck would 😮
Amazing place matt thanks for sharing it with use again great suff keep it up 👌👊
31:07, They didn't turn the lift off, just left the gates open on it to disable it from working, so I recon the buttons on the lower levels will work.
Grrrr..didn't get notified, but here I am :)
Thinking more like "Night lighting" not emergency lights to ensure some lights are on at all times. I've seen the system in other places and the "Night lighting" can only be switched of from a central control point.
That should be a graded building and turned into a museum. Awesome.
Somebody made a video there a. Few years ago and it that time not only were the lifts working, but the mercury arc rectifiers were still in service.
Is there any Deep Shelter Matt has not been in? Secret Deep Shelter Vault. Excellent, thanks!
Great channel Matt 👀👍
Lol,,,, the beautiful glass elevators in my doctor's building sound like a worn out bulldozer and the elevators in the abandoned shelter sound like a shiny new Bentley....
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Great video but everyone should stick together. Some of them panicked when the alarm went off. Lol
That place is massive
Yes you should've all sticked together. And one of you using the lift to go back up when others had disappeared, that was dangerous, fellt scared for you.
Also if it had been me would've turned most (not all) of the lights off on leaving, someones paying the bill and much of the nation's electricity is still generated using fossil fuels and theres a climate emergency. I know only a drop in the ocean but anything that we can do! Great explore though guys thanks so much for doing and posting!
Very Interesting, makes you wonder weather this was the governments plan to house people in a war, also makes you wonder if there are modern versions of these ready to house people in a wartime environment.
This should stand as a reminder. Do not go underground with people if they try to scare us under. Not a good idea.
The archway campus the last building was part of whittington hospital, has underground passages that go to the main hospital
I would just laughed at that k9 dude kept walking lmao
really like your style,
im in the midlands,climber,first aider.
You are right ,lots of room for bodies 😱
Epic 👌🏼
what a superb facility
I love watching these, amazing capsules of time..thanks people amazing..
🤣🤣🤣 the location fail at the end
Steve is a great guy .
Brilliant
Saw this place after your video! Placed was trashed stripped and no electricity! Thanks for the entertainment! Be careful of the mercury genarater
I think you must be getting bunkers confused. There are some which look like that.
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Must be! The mercury genarater though and the old school electric equipment! In the next room closest to the mercury genarater was a transformer! Wow to grow some veggie in there as well as create a living room with modern technology and live in there! Hmmmmd
I'm quite surprised that even with the "warning asbestos" sign you still went in even though you didn't have adequate breathing equipment. It could also be a deterrent.
The magneto(?) in "the old fashioned telephone"....I have one of those. Very old.
Keep up the god work mate love your bunker explores and deep shelters
cant visit this, but i love those geolocate challanges :- )
If I were to set up an alarm anywhere (especially like this), I'd program it to say "Another visitor. Stay a while. Staaayyyy foreveeeeer!" (although most people breaking in won't be old enough to get the reference)
Video game, cant remember now which one.
@@TheSecretVault Impossible Mission, Epyx, Commodore 64, 1984.
Gameplay looks oddly familiar... bunkers, interconnected by lifts... only the bunkers are filled with deadly robots.
(Edit: Epyx, not Activision)
Amazing long tunnels. Yeah could easily stack bodies on those shelves. Turn it into an underground hospital. Awesome. That guy at that other place at the end there looked like just anybody. You sure he was real security.
Massive Electricity isolation Matts by the looks of it
29:52 Reminding me of a helter skelter but without the slide going down.
You can see parts of the previous world. Tartarian world with the arc rectifier and the yellow brick. The beautiful brick. Then they have artifact rooms. What did they pull out of that place when they founded it? Wow
Two companies shared the facility. You crossed the border and tripped the alarm.
Matt if you played memory game, you'd fail lol. 9 minute mark,.you found the first lift. Which had a staircase going down. When you came down in the lift,.you opened the staircase cupboard. Which was empty, when you wanted to go back up 49 mins. You found lift number 2, not number 1. As the stairs cupboard was full of rubbish. When you got to the top of the stairs, you had to go through the escape hatch as the staircase was sealed off. Not like on your way in.