Purdown Percy the Secret Nuclear Bunker Microwave Transmitter and Anti Aircraft Site
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Purdown Percy was a mythical supergun at the Bristol HAA (Heavy Anti Aicraft) site. Purdown Percy’ was the name given to a legendary supergun supposedly placed here during the war. There was no such weapon. What there was was a battery of 3.7-inch guns and the occasional 40mm Bofors gun(s)
Stoke Park was the large Yellow House most people are familiar with on the M32 Motorway out of Bristol.
We look at these sites by Drone and on foot. Accompanied by the Angry Angel.
For "Exploring with Dan" who deleted his comment after I answered him... yes the BT tower has a nuclear bunker. The tower is designed to take a nuclear blast and keep running so that means it has a bunker capable to holding staff members who can see to the running of the tower. Just common sense if you do the research.
I find these video's REALLY theraputic, I love watching your adventures Always feel like im right there with you and the music rocks too. One of if not THE best channel on UA-cam
I'm going back and watching videos I might have missed! You can see how you have improved! 👍
For "Exploring with Dan" who deleted his comment after I answered him... yes the BT tower has a nuclear bunker. The tower is designed to take a nuclear blast and keep running so that means it has a bunker capable to holding staff members who can see to the running of the tower. Just common sense if you do the research.
As a kid, i used to explore this area regularly. i lived not too far from here and went to school at Lockleaze secondary ( now demolished ). The yellow building used to be a mental asylum and before the motorway was constructed, you could walk down to Sea Mills past Duchesses pond ( also defunct )
Snuff mills ..
Not sea mills..
I know of one near me. Only just discovered and even luckily gained access location is very secret sadly better off that way. Some disrespectful idiot trespassed and sprayed some writing on the wall really good condition. Got an Anderson shelter and four batteries sadly no doors. Used to be a scrapyard owned by Italian prisoners war.
The Yellow house 'The Dower House' was a very early Lunatic Asylum/Mental Hospital, the clock tower seen from your footage is all that remains of the rest of the hospital complex!
Can remember friends exploring it as kids, and finding the padded cell, before it was all redeveloped.
My stepdad's house where I grew up is a 10min walk from Purdown, I used to go up there all the time when I was young, haven't been up there for about 15 years now though. My Dad used to work up on the tower occasionally, too.
If you are taking the dog out maybe clip the lead to a carabiner which you can clip to your belt loops or belt meaning you can still use the camera but also have control of the dog. And if there is other dogs unhook it and use it by hand. Love the videos. Keep it up
Brilliant video....I thought purdown percy was the anti aircraft gun though. I walk here a lot too.I'm glad they are finally restoring it.
Im from Bristol and know where the tower is. I had no idea all this was there.
the drone shots are absolutely breath taking ty love your vids thank you sir
new record hit the like button within 2 seconds good god i am so hooked to your chanel
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Just a thought, the GPO relay tower is one of the most prominent landmarks for miles around. Its located on a hill with not much else immediately nearby. Why have a bunker under such an easy target?
That's true, except I think there's a more modern bunker to do with the tower itself, and Matt suggests that too. If there is, I presume it would be for a crew of engineers to maintain it, and the generators. It would indeed have been a sitting duck, but nevertheless, a functional requirement.
Never really made sense to me that these towers where meant to provide a failsafe communication network in the event of a nuclear attack, that an enemy could hardly miss them as they are so prominent, and might think to target them initially, maybe not nuclear as such, but to just destroy them. Bit of a design flaw really.
Hi Matt love the Chanel
it was big guns bolted to the floor and a gun store
‘Purdown Percy’ was the name given to a legendary supergun supposedly placed here during the war.
Brilliant love the photo over lay, nice to see what it looked like in operation, the big gun that is👌📸..
I enjoy your videos, cheers from New York. I don't mind the doggie spins etc. - keep bringing Angel.
you have a great looking dog, I have an Alaskan husky myself and I love him too death, as he's a rescued animal as I got involved, it was a no brainier he's a beautiful white husky with me now eleven years. enjoying the video, keep up the good work, outstanding, Sincerely yours Mr Bradley Bill Parker ✝️🏀 🤾
Mine is right by me now and is the most attentive tyhing ever... if theres a packet of crisps open she will watch head up for hours.
There are another five HAA battery installations in Bristol.All still there in various states.Protecting avonmouth docks and filton airfield.
Great video thanks for sharing looks like I need to visit this place
Very interesting channel, subbed a while ago, the first gun enplacment in the video is identical in design to one near to where i live in Sandwell Valley, West Bromwich, near to Hill Top Golf course, off Forge Lane, on top of a hill it has the floor fixings for where the gun would have rotated and also the shell stores around the edges clearly showing the hinge mounts where the steel blast doors would have been, its at grid ref SP035915 for anyone that may be interested, up the hill at the rear, of the club house,in the nearby copse you can still see the concrete bases where i should imagine some sort of huts would have stood, due to disability I havent been up there in a while but I guess it is still there, Im enjoying all your Bunker Videos, Cheers Mike
It can kill them eating chocs,that is one cute creature
Crazy dog...love it !
I worked at stoke park when they built the houses the very first fuel strike was on.
had cause to visit there when working for a telecoms service provider in i have to say it is a ROYAL pain in the arse to get equipment up there as there is only one access route for a vehicle and the track is gated about a quarter of a mile south at the end of the track and the council will not entertain letting someone through which meant i had to piss about alone with 150 kg of kit and a sack truck i will never forget that day grumble mutter!!!
A lot of these transmitter towers are having their dishes removed. Originally it was much cheaper, and in a lot of cases faster, to use as a backhaul for business to link two sites together. These days the only companies that really make use them are stock traders, and older mobile phone network coverage, with the vast majority of the original link sites covered by dark fiber networks, there is very little reason to continue to use a radio link. Even mobile networks favour smaller self owned sites due to poorer coverage of faster network tech like 4g.
I'm imagining the dog having it's own UA-cam channel called "chocolate adventures" with today's vid title "the bitches of purdown"
So weird to see videos like this especially bc I live there
I was shown around the big house called the dower house before it was a mental hospital stoke park I view it before the builders tore it apart and it was brilliant lots of rooms to explore and basement and attic was amazing but I was disappointed that I didn’t find the two secret passages made for the duke of Beaufort back in the times of King Charles who. Gave them the house and estate stretching as far as glouster......
Have you tried interacting with the other dogs while someone else holds your dog? my dog used to hate other dogs, but it was just trying to be protective. Once my dog saw other dogs interacting with me and that I was ok, my dog dropped it's guard and was pretty friendly with all the dogs we came across. Just had to be wary of other dogs getting their back up, because it was instant panic mode and into defence for my dog then. Just a passing thought, thanks for the intertesting vids.
Matthew, you can get a chest strap for camming, it's like a brace around your chest.
It would be helpful if you urbex guys took good shots of the locks you find on barriers to bunkers etc. Very helpful.
great vid mate but your dog needs help to being angry with all dogs he meets it should be a treat to wake your lovely dog and chill in the countryside with him
U can see a hole where the cable would have gone to guns to power them on the floor
Thank you Matt. ..
I am liking you're videos more and more nice one .
You are the best urbex on yt matt love angel too
Been to this place loads but never new this was here...
amazing i love your videos nuff love from sheffield
Never knew that was all there. Know where it was looking at the tower straight away
anti aircraft cluster with command and control centre as the first set of bunkers. second set is ammo and further away. reinforced lump to stabilise the guns. there would have been a cluster of big guns supported by a smaller guns and a bunch of observers, ammo bunkers around the guns are set so you can take ammo from behind the gun whichever way it is pointing when in action.
Thanks for the info. I wonder if any footage exists of it in action?
@@TheSecretVault there's probably something tucked away from a similar setup on movietone or similar but we know more about the romans than the UK defences in ww2, especially the defense lines. you find concrete blobs with spigot mortar pins all over the place.
Where’s the underground bunker?? Was it the that tiny above ground one ? Thanks
Looks very much like Lavernock Point Gun Battery
Was this an electronic controlled gun placement using radar to fire guns at targets automatically ....very secret very early autonomous guns
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i'll have a blast round the corner........ lol!
Thank you
How about doing the World War II hospital on Filton runway
hahaha get some one to base jump off the tower I bet some one out there would. and you use your drone to get it that would be epic but it has to be a secret. just a thought
Two ufo sighting years apart were seen hovering above the tower on both occasions....
Proof?
bRiStOl 0117 of what ?
Angel loves her food tjsts for sure hahaha
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These towers are mainly used by mobile phone operators.
and probably still used by Home Office, MOD etc.... but yeah. Technology has changed a lot. New services = smaller antennas.
How can I contact u secret vault I have a place you might like to visit
Is it legal to explore abandoned bunkers or do you need permission?
If you don't brake entry and don't cause any damage and film yourself entering to cover your ass if you do get stopped by police you will be fine:) so yer it is legal;)
Yeah as Ryan said... walk in... dont break in. Dont turn on the lights as its theft of electricity. Its useful to film to prove to police or security that you were well behaved - then they cant do diddly squat apart from ask you to leave. Dont come back as then its agrrivated trespass and that criminal so can be acted upon. Easy peasy.
Shane you can't get onto tower and into nuclear bunker.
Still cool though
Peace 🇬🇧
Never actually tried, but probabluy well alarmed and unlikely to be open...;-(
@@TheSecretVault just let angel in and she will sniff a way in for you lol 🇬🇧
When is cannabis farm bunker vid out
tonight - urm this mornin.... errmm... workin on it now.
Ok thanks bud
some serious HAA installations there
Hi worked at BT YPUR (Purdown radio station) for 4 years until 1976. It was used to relay TV and telephone circuits from London tower to South Wales and South West England. Also used for a transmitter site for BT first mobile phone service. It does not have a bunker just blast proof area's. In 1974 I placed a Christmas tree on the spike at top of tower and informed BBC Bristol that we had the highest Christmas tree in Bristol. Good times.
to much waffle
awwww