Before I retired I was a telephone engineer (cable jointer) on BT so these tunnels and bunkers are 'normal' to me and I've worked in some of them (not the Birmingham ones). What amazes me is the 'conspiracy theories' and the fact that you seem surprised that the government lied about their construction. When these were built we were in the middle of the Cold War with the very real possibility of losing surface communications. Things like this were - and maybe even still are given the Ukraine situation - a necessity in case the worst happened. You didn't REALLY expect the government to tell the public exactly what and where these things are, and risk the info falling into enemy hands - did you?
Spot on. Also, it isn't urban exploring of abandoned infrastructure, it is trespass. As you say, it was built in the Cold War era and was a secret facility beyond Soviet eyes and ears so the Govt wouldn't broadcast its construction.
Cannot believe years ago I used to waste my time watching shitty soaps on TV. Now all I watch mainly are Urbex videos, so much more entertaining and interesting, thanks to all you Urbexers for your work.
What’s your point? Could you have watched Urbex videos on UA-cam back then? If the answer is no, then your point is completely lost. Also time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted time
It was a very badly kept secret at the time. I went down there with an organised group of GPO telecoms apprentices in 1978. We had to sign the official secrets act, but no one took it seriously. Pretty much every Brummie knew about it.
This is very true. We all knew of the 'Post Office' tunnels because many of us saw them or knew someone who had seen them. These ones, we never saw - but we all knew about them or even knew someone who worked on them etc. during construction. Not tangible proof, but I was a Brum resident for 10 years and all the locals knew about these 'other' cold war tunnels yes indeedy.
Your detail, history, coverage and finds are second to none. I love your channel and if I’m honest I don’t need to go to these places anymore because you do such a good job showing them.
Incredible place you got into. Like Mission Impossible lowering down the air vent! I know in London there are deep level BT tunnels somewhere 100ft underground. Dr. Bradley Garrett talked about getting down into them through levels of tunnels and then seeing what he described as tracking cameras in the ceiling. It’s insane to think that a little hatch in the corner of a car park could lead to somewhere like that.
Honestly Matt I think you have the best urbex channel on UA-cam. The production value and detail you put in are just off the chain! I also like the long, largely unedited format of your vids (makes it feel like I'm actually going on an explore myself).
@@rafkoozV6 i’ve just checked them out thanks. Their videos are pretty good and they look at some really cool locations. But it feels like they ‘manufacture’ a lot of the danger they find themselves in. They tell us they’ve seen this or that, but never capture it on video for us to see.
24:00 Those are not stairs, it's a ladder. To go down, turn around and face the steps. You may have to take off your packs and lower them down. Most of what you saw were simple communications wire tunnels necessary for any city. I hope you turned off any lights that were behind you.
Where's the MDF? Were all the old xbar systems ripped out? Appears to still be an active trunk. The black cables are recent as well. I used to work with Telstra in Australia, I've been in a few old exchanges. Mad.
OMG Matt that was one of your best explores. The determination to get down in those tunnels was amazing. You had a great team with you, very educational as well. Matt = Legend.
Great video guys, I’ve watched both vids. I’ve mapped the tunnels for a few years out of interest. Also walked and viewed many of the the visible and none visible shafts and mapped many of the entrance hatches. No idea out you got access into the first shaft as I know that well and there is a couple of cameras there and a locked door with dome cam.It’s also quite exposed to the street. I know exactly where you popped out (secrets safe) Amazed you were not caught here 😂 This is the best side of youtube 🙌 Thank you
Said this before…. There is a bunker In glasgow… it’s under dial house “old Anderston bus station” and runs in under the MOD Building only possibly to access through the MOD building on Argyle st as far as i know…someone told be the access in the opposite side on Dialhouse has been blocked
Dad helped build some of these cold War bunkers, they were incase of Russia splitting the country in half. Cool video, the was loads of tunnels under the queen's Brook carriageway and the Aston expressway and bullring, apparently 5/6 stories down.
Another great explore 👌, I would have liked to see that concrete door closing. Abseiling and rope ladder work, those ladders down and up again looked really awkward. Congratulations on recording the whole event so well 👏. I have no idea how you find these places but don't stop, great to see Jordan and Taffy showing their Bottle. Thanks and stay safe.
Yes that underground Yomp is a foot killer from beneath Telecom tower tunnels heading to the old Underground tracks of Royal mail at the now Mailbox building or the lovely high speed Yomp to avoid the Pir detectors heading into the Jewellery Quarter in Hockley Not to far from the Street clock. Thank god for GPS and maps 😉😎
As usual a stunning intro and amazing videography, editing and sound engineering. Always amazing watching your work. An observation about repelling with a rope: in the late 1980's my buddies came back from Ranger training in the US army and talked my asthmatic ass into repelling off a tree limb in a nearby woodlot. We lived in Florida back then. Their rigging involved the standard US military issue black leather gloves and holding tension with the rope BEHIND their back at the belt, with the rope slung to the front harness somehow. This absolutely prevents any chance of snagging the fingers into the pulley. I'm sure there are a few good videos on the technique they learned and were using. I never forgot those really cool gloves and have picked up a few used pairs over the years. To be honest my cheap made-in-China gardening gloves, which are the same in every country, are almost as good, except for the backs being canvass. The grey leather is just as tough. I think those kinds of gloves should be standard kit for all urbexers, along with leather boots and extra water, extra batteries and bulbs, etc.
Awesome to see this and its history! BBC Midlands Today attempted to do a report from here back in 2009, but were denied as at the time they were apparently removing asbestos and also were having issues with flooding. What a cavernous place! Such an exciting and unusual explore of such a big part of post-war history. Fascinating infrastructure. Bit of a security fail though, someone at BT is going to be having a proper bollocking when this video becomes known to them.
there is one maybe linked to this site under newstreet train station the trains go past the entrance from solihull end ,a train driver used to know folks who worked the line ,and one under the victorian big council biulding as well they link up to the one under newstreet as far as i know ,as well,a old royal mail track down there as well
You are the man! Just amazing! I had seen a old video of the Guardian exchange from about 1995 on UA-cam, but have not seen anyone ever get into this system since. I'm just speechless.
@@beerbuildings the video I seen was transferred from old high8 video tape to mpeg, I really don't know how I stumbled on to it and I have had problems trying to locate the footage again, since I seen it was some time ago.
@@mattd5757 Yes that sounds like the same footage. Try a UA-cam search for Guardian Exchange Manchester and it should come up. It's definitely still up.
The fact that those that were employed to build such a complex have maintained their silence after all these years. They must have a fantastic 'Retirement' System.
These facilities are in the US as well. AT&T and the Department of Defense built them all over the US, but especially in the Northeast and Mid Atlantic There are hardend underground bunkers about every 50 miles I saw some of them They are massive
I've never been claustrophobic but as you were all going down the shaft ladders I realized that my entire body was rigid and I don't know how long I'd stopped breathing had to take a huge gasp of breath in 😄😄 excellent
What an incredible place! I hope you'll be going back there to do further explores; the scale of the place was unbelievable. Just when I think I've seen all the massive underground complexes on here, you pull another one out of the hat. Great work.
I’ve always been fascinated by the bunkers in brum. I thought you was in the Guardian bunker because you mentioned it at 5:00 right before The concrete slab part. I didn’t realise until you left you had made it into Anchor exchange.
I worked in this building when it was fully operational in the 1980's, looked a bit different then! Great memories but was declassified so not really a secret or a conspiracy.
Absolutely fascinating. I would have loved to you to have kept going to the far end of that tunnel. I understand that a tunnel was also constructed to the north (the one you had I think went south). The northern tunnel was not finished and was going towards Hocklet. Sub Brit states that they also tunnelled south from Hockley but there is a 1500m gap between the two ends.
Amazing, absolutely glued to it, that massive sliding concrete slab is quite something, there certainly is a tunnel system under Glasgow too however not as extensive as Birmingham, one of the lift shaft buildings to access it is in plain view near Queen St station, looks absolutely locked up tight though.
A friend of mine worked on some of the similar sites around London ....but he's colleague was denied a pass due to a certain "party" (who by the way had no chance winning of course) he had voted for as a laugh in the 2 elections of 1974 .....when he was young and foolish apprentice....he later found out the security services deemed him as a " security risk" and thus gpo/ bt had to listen to them even 5 years later in 1979.....strange days eh?
Did you get beyond that gate with the camera? Seems the video is just a series of tunnels with no huge equipment as per kingsway. Are there areas you didn't manage to explore?
Their is a load more than this by the old library & by the post office & alpha tower by the cooking collage under the queens way under museum loads of tjem we used to call them the city under the city.. Alot been covered up with new building projects over the last 20years i even seen articulated lorries going into one of the old larger entrances..! Great vid do more 👍cheers
The one under the Queensway (radcliffe tunnel) just goes up onto the street by the side of the old library. Been gated off for a while now, only way down is with a key for the door up on the street level. Used to have to run down the Queensway tunnel to gain access.
got some tunnels where i live that are sandstone and stacked rocks, over a couple of hundred years old, they link some forts and one goes to chambers under where the parliament is, they keep bricking in the entrances and steel gates on the parliament ones. can get around most of the city via storm water rivulets and storm water pipes. they put steel gates on many now, a friend wound up trapped by one, he made the error of entering when there was rain in the distance and sadly lost his life
If the public didn't know about it what are the odds during a nuclear attack that during that small window the public is supposed to research locate and then navigate toward bunker during a strike or was this mainly for gov officials
You literally read the wikipedia entry for "Anchor telephone exchange" word for word :-) Not that i'm complaining, its awesome to actually see these places, keep up the good work
what a one hellof a place i was hoping you would find the nuclear site because it would be huge and if it did get released where would it open up at cause i am really interested in knowing ,you have a really exciting life exploring these sites thank you matthew now i understand why the dod/mod are so bloody jumpy about you, but i am pleased you are there to be a pain in there arses,,the other thing i would love you to look behind is the red door as it is killing me not knowing is behind it i think it could be a tunnel system/connected with the dod,/that care with sincere thank you from new zealand
There were ww2 tunnels under and probly still there in some way and other..this is tip of ice berg ..under rounder.bull ring.i was there in 60s AND 70s loads of under and upper site's..
My question is which entrance did you use and where did all those other doorways seen in many parts of the video lead to? And maybe you should have tried the opposite direction to the one you took - I feel it would have taken you to the Fleet Street/Jewellery Quarter side...
@@TheSecretVault from what I can see, there's only one tunnel (no comms) which has another tunnel connecting to the left of it - which is the same as the first one you guys took - the entrance isn't too far from the Queensway...
@@AsceticFocus sounds like you know a few things about this system! I have a access point for the Victoria square part of the tunnel system and also the old dale end part of your down to share some details?
This video is hilarious. Brave 'urban explorers' walking round well lit and maintained BT cable tunnels and ducts as found in every major city at varying depths. How brave it must have felt to follow the fire exit signs and escape routes to get in/out. I commissioned STC TXK4 exchanges in the late 70s, nothing unusual about any of this content, unless you are under 40 years old.
Mathew, this is very interesting and am putting it away for tomorrow (go to go to work early in the morning!) I will email you about it for my mother was a Cleaner Supervisor at the Tower building in Newhall street in the early 1960's and sometimes she would take me with her - I was actually in that building when I was 10 years old!
Pro tip when climbing ladders (either ascending or descending) hands go on the verticals & feet go on the horizontals that way somebody above you cannot step on your hands. And, you cannot step on someone's hands below you, just a suggestion.
@@247vanmanBirmingham are you intending on going in and down? I’m not fussed if you do just interested? I do happen to know the way but for obvious reasons I wouldn’t reveal here. Not sure if there’s a messaging feature on this app
Wow you britts have lots of secret tunnels and war tunnels thats just amazing here in sweden wee have butt not so many and the are just lockt up and seald. Just amazing playses you have bin to Matthew. Keep up the good work
Much the same for some of the places in the UK mate. A lot of great stuff would be left laying around if it wasn't for that horrible drymix concrete stuff 🤮 sometimes you get lucky and find a diamond in the rough.
I feel like Sweden probably has more in the cities ready to use these days though, I believe there’s a whole government department in Sweden to look after them & you have those warning siren tests quite often.
Awesome places you go Matt , u ever been under Norwich city ??? Or under Suffolk apparently they had a start of a underground tube or some kind of station so I’ve heard
Lived 4 miles from the post office tower since 1979 and never heard of this place before, thanks for sharing this one Matt and the other lads, most interesting
Guided tours? Are you sure ? Urbex groups have for several years regarded this site with speculation , i remember following a long discusion about nothing more than speculation of possible access points, the post was eventually locked as the replies were just repeated speculation. Gawd knows how these chaps gained access, but fair play to them and thier research and courage.
That's a substation. The fire signage will flash to warn you if the room is about to be purged with CO2.. If you don't get out when they flash, you won't get far without dropping
Before I retired I was a telephone engineer (cable jointer) on BT so these tunnels and bunkers are 'normal' to me and I've worked in some of them (not the Birmingham ones). What amazes me is the 'conspiracy theories' and the fact that you seem surprised that the government lied about their construction. When these were built we were in the middle of the Cold War with the very real possibility of losing surface communications. Things like this were - and maybe even still are given the Ukraine situation - a necessity in case the worst happened. You didn't REALLY expect the government to tell the public exactly what and where these things are, and risk the info falling into enemy hands - did you?
Spot on. Also, it isn't urban exploring of abandoned infrastructure, it is trespass.
As you say, it was built in the Cold War era and was a secret facility beyond Soviet eyes and ears so the Govt wouldn't broadcast its construction.
Please get in touch via email dude... Id love to hear your stories.
It's a world of muppits m8
You won't miss much if Birmingham gets wiped out,
@@TheSecretVault dad worked on these in the 60s, bullring, Aston express way and Queens Brook carriage way... 5/6 floors down.
Cannot believe years ago I used to waste my time watching shitty soaps on TV. Now all I watch mainly are Urbex videos, so much more entertaining and interesting, thanks to all you Urbexers for your work.
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What’s your point? Could you have watched Urbex videos on UA-cam back then? If the answer is no, then your point is completely lost. Also time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted time
Your missing so much on Emmerdale farm 😂😂😂
It was a very badly kept secret at the time. I went down there with an organised group of GPO telecoms apprentices in 1978. We had to sign the official secrets act, but no one took it seriously. Pretty much every Brummie knew about it.
Everyone in Manchester knew about ours
This is very true. We all knew of the 'Post Office' tunnels because many of us saw them or knew someone who had seen them. These ones, we never saw - but we all knew about them or even knew someone who worked on them etc. during construction. Not tangible proof, but I was a Brum resident for 10 years and all the locals knew about these 'other' cold war tunnels yes indeedy.
Your detail, history, coverage and finds are second to none. I love your channel and if I’m honest I don’t need to go to these places anymore because you do such a good job showing them.
Incredible place you got into. Like Mission Impossible lowering down the air vent! I know in London there are deep level BT tunnels somewhere 100ft underground. Dr. Bradley Garrett talked about getting down into them through levels of tunnels and then seeing what he described as tracking cameras in the ceiling. It’s insane to think that a little hatch in the corner of a car park could lead to somewhere like that.
Honestly Matt I think you have the best urbex channel on UA-cam. The production value and detail you put in are just off the chain! I also like the long, largely unedited format of your vids (makes it feel like I'm actually going on an explore myself).
Thank you
nothing special TBh
just a lot of english talking and like talk a lot say nothing..
Check > Exploring the Unbeaten Path.
@@rafkoozV6 i’ve just checked them out thanks. Their videos are pretty good and they look at some really cool locations. But it feels like they ‘manufacture’ a lot of the danger they find themselves in. They tell us they’ve seen this or that, but never capture it on video for us to see.
24:00 Those are not stairs, it's a ladder. To go down, turn around and face the steps. You may have to take off your packs and lower them down. Most of what you saw were simple communications wire tunnels necessary for any city.
I hope you turned off any lights that were behind you.
tHE LIGHTS WERE ON AUTO
@@TheSecretVault gotcha. I guess you mean a timer or motion sensor.
Where's the MDF? Were all the old xbar systems ripped out? Appears to still be an active trunk. The black cables are recent as well.
I used to work with Telstra in Australia, I've been in a few old exchanges.
Mad.
You lot have gotta be the first urbex group to get in these tunnels! been waiting so long to see this!!
Rewatched this again Matt , I’m so impressed by this video and find , again well done .
Did not know this was underneath birmingham (my home town) ! absolutley facinating ... really enjoyed this guys - thank you!
Awesome place!
Good job!
Great video!
Thanks Matthew!
👍👍👍👊😎
OMG Matt that was one of your best explores. The determination to get down in those tunnels was amazing. You had a great team with you, very educational as well. Matt = Legend.
BT Security will not be happy when they see this video 😂 I will not be surprised if they call the cops
And a gorgeous telling off lolllll
Awesome Matt, thanks for sharing.
King still to this day ✨️🎉🎊
Great video guys, I’ve watched both vids. I’ve mapped the tunnels for a few years out of interest. Also walked and viewed many of the the visible and none visible shafts and mapped many of the entrance hatches.
No idea out you got access into the first shaft as I know that well and there is a couple of cameras there and a locked door with dome cam.It’s also quite exposed to the street. I know exactly where you popped out (secrets safe) Amazed you were not caught here 😂 This is the best side of youtube 🙌 Thank you
Matt I rarely comment just watch but this is is best explore ive seen you do
Congratulations to you all
Love it! The one place I've always wanted to see but never seen people get in properly. I'd LOVE a full explore of the whole lot!
Said this before…. There is a bunker In glasgow… it’s under dial house “old Anderston bus station” and runs in under the MOD Building only possibly to access through the MOD building on Argyle st as far as i know…someone told be the access in the opposite side on Dialhouse has been blocked
Dad helped build some of these cold War bunkers, they were incase of Russia splitting the country in half.
Cool video, the was loads of tunnels under the queen's Brook carriageway and the Aston expressway and bullring, apparently 5/6 stories down.
Another great explore 👌, I would have liked to see that concrete door closing. Abseiling and rope ladder work, those ladders down and up again looked really awkward. Congratulations on recording the whole event so well 👏. I have no idea how you find these places but don't stop, great to see Jordan and Taffy showing their Bottle. Thanks and stay safe.
I spent a lot of time in them tunnels pulling cable, there’s over 28km of tunnels in brum
Wow... email me dude.. I would love to chat.
Fantastic that was best thing I have seen on my TV in years and that's not a understatement thanks brilliant 👍
It's amazing how these under ground bunkers and tunnels was built
That was one of the best explorers you've done I'm a long tim 👍☮️
Been down there myself. Big tunnels with large blast doors. This is why “Birmingham can’t have an underground”.
Yes that underground Yomp is a foot killer from beneath Telecom tower tunnels heading to the old Underground tracks of Royal mail at the now Mailbox building or the lovely high speed Yomp to avoid the Pir detectors heading into the Jewellery Quarter in Hockley
Not to far from the Street clock.
Thank god for GPS and maps 😉😎
As usual a stunning intro and amazing videography, editing and sound engineering. Always amazing watching your work.
An observation about repelling with a rope: in the late 1980's my buddies came back from Ranger training in the US army and talked my asthmatic ass into repelling off a tree limb in a nearby woodlot. We lived in Florida back then. Their rigging involved the standard US military issue black leather gloves and holding tension with the rope BEHIND their back at the belt, with the rope slung to the front harness somehow. This absolutely prevents any chance of snagging the fingers into the pulley. I'm sure there are a few good videos on the technique they learned and were using. I never forgot those really cool gloves and have picked up a few used pairs over the years. To be honest my cheap made-in-China gardening gloves, which are the same in every country, are almost as good, except for the backs being canvass. The grey leather is just as tough. I think those kinds of gloves should be standard kit for all urbexers, along with leather boots and extra water, extra batteries and bulbs, etc.
Yes we will get some better training soon. Glad you enjoyed the video
Sister site in manchester guardian is similar but stripped with only 2 gennys remaining
Great, I love bunkers!
Watching this, thinking, OMGosh there could be men under our house, way down deep, constructing tunnels and you name it. Can't believe it.
Awesome to see this and its history! BBC Midlands Today attempted to do a report from here back in 2009, but were denied as at the time they were apparently removing asbestos and also were having issues with flooding. What a cavernous place! Such an exciting and unusual explore of such a big part of post-war history. Fascinating infrastructure. Bit of a security fail though, someone at BT is going to be having a proper bollocking when this video becomes known to them.
there is one maybe linked to this site under newstreet train station the trains go past the entrance from solihull end ,a train driver used to know folks who worked the line ,and one under the victorian big council biulding as well they link up to the one under newstreet as far as i know ,as well,a old royal mail track down there as well
Did you guys explore all areas, seem there are a lot of equipment and telephone exchange equipment missing compared to kingsway.
You are the man! Just amazing! I had seen a old video of the Guardian exchange from about 1995 on UA-cam, but have not seen anyone ever get into this system since. I'm just speechless.
Is that the one that's in four or five parts, titled Guardian-1.mpeg or something understated like that?
@@beerbuildings the video I seen was transferred from old high8 video tape to mpeg, I really don't know how I stumbled on to it and I have had problems trying to locate the footage again, since I seen it was some time ago.
@@mattd5757 Yes that sounds like the same footage. Try a UA-cam search for Guardian Exchange Manchester and it should come up. It's definitely still up.
The fact that those that were employed to build such a complex have maintained their silence after all these years. They must have a fantastic 'Retirement' System.
They were 'retired' alright
These facilities are in the US as well. AT&T and the Department of Defense built them all over the US, but especially in the Northeast and Mid Atlantic
There are hardend underground bunkers about every 50 miles
I saw some of them
They are massive
I've never been claustrophobic but as you were all going down the shaft ladders I realized that my entire body was rigid and I don't know how long I'd stopped breathing had to take a huge gasp of breath in 😄😄 excellent
I work in Leeds and there are lots of tunnels here too.
What an incredible place! I hope you'll be going back there to do further explores; the scale of the place was unbelievable. Just when I think I've seen all the massive underground complexes on here, you pull another one out of the hat. Great work.
There still miles unexplored tunnels down there. Amazing place
Holy Maria this is a very big WW2 Bunker, so many Stairs and so long Bunkertunnel and so many Rooms
Brilliant explore Matt and friends. Keep doing what your doing me and my family love watching your posts 👍🏻
There was a Dsr-3 motion camera in there with links
I’ve always been fascinated by the bunkers in brum. I thought you was in the Guardian bunker because you mentioned it at 5:00 right before The concrete slab part. I didn’t realise until you left you had made it into Anchor exchange.
Just come across your channel. Loving it.
As a Brummie always knew they were there but out of bounds unless you worked for BT. Rumoured to link up with new street train station.
New Street and the mailbox yes
This will be remembered as your finest work.
Hard work watching you walk down the looooong tunnels. Kept falling asleep it was so hypnotic.
I worked in this building when it was fully operational in the 1980's, looked a bit different then! Great memories but was declassified so not really a secret or a conspiracy.
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Absolutely fascinating. I would have loved to you to have kept going to the far end of that tunnel. I understand that a tunnel was also constructed to the north (the one you had I think went south). The northern tunnel was not finished and was going towards Hocklet. Sub Brit states that they also tunnelled south from Hockley but there is a 1500m gap between the two ends.
Amazing, absolutely glued to it, that massive sliding concrete slab is quite something, there certainly is a tunnel system under Glasgow too however not as extensive as Birmingham, one of the lift shaft buildings to access it is in plain view near Queen St station, looks absolutely locked up tight though.
Fantastic job guys I've just subscribed to your channel
Wow there's a lot of coper in there lads ££££££££££
What a legend! I have been waiting for someone to finally get into here. It is indeed a holy grail site
You needed 2a D keys (carriageway keys) to get in the lid
My late father was working on this project in the seventies didn't say much to me
Well done you got some balls to go down there .
A friend of mine worked on some of the similar sites around London ....but he's colleague was denied a pass due to a certain "party" (who by the way had no chance winning of course) he had voted for as a laugh in the 2 elections of 1974 .....when he was young and foolish apprentice....he later found out the security services deemed him as a " security risk" and thus gpo/ bt had to listen to them even 5 years later in 1979.....strange days eh?
loved seeing those toilets and a sink!
Wow . no one would ever know that existed. awesome vid.
Did you get beyond that gate with the camera? Seems the video is just a series of tunnels with no huge equipment as per kingsway. Are there areas you didn't manage to explore?
Their is a load more than this by the old library & by the post office & alpha tower by the cooking collage under the queens way under museum loads of tjem we used to call them the city under the city..
Alot been covered up with new building projects over the last 20years i even seen articulated lorries going into one of the old larger entrances..!
Great vid do more 👍cheers
The majority of these are (disused) service tunnels I would think, no?
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The one under the Queensway (radcliffe tunnel) just goes up onto the street by the side of the old library. Been gated off for a while now, only way down is with a key for the door up on the street level. Used to have to run down the Queensway tunnel to gain access.
Called Anchor complex tunnels because of the assay symbol for Birmingham being an anchor.
that is wild cause if you look at the map at the start one of the entrances is straight across from the assay office
That was an incredible video Thank you
I can not believe you got in there that is amazing you boys are legends
Well done matt you are officially a legend. We cannot bestow you with any higher honour. Been mentioning this to you for ages. I’m very jealous.
hes officially just following on from others hwo did this about 7 yuears ago, just they didnt whore a video or pics anywhere
Im glad we managed it too. Still buzzing.,
Fantastic video Matt as always!! 👍🏼
got some tunnels where i live that are sandstone and stacked rocks, over a couple of hundred years old, they link some forts and one goes to chambers under where the parliament is, they keep bricking in the entrances and steel gates on the parliament ones.
can get around most of the city via storm water rivulets and storm water pipes. they put steel gates on many now, a friend wound up trapped by one, he made the error of entering when there was rain in the distance and sadly lost his life
SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR FRIEND. YEAH NEVER GO DOWN WHEN RAINING.
If the public didn't know about it what are the odds during a nuclear attack that during that small window the public is supposed to research locate and then navigate toward bunker during a strike or was this mainly for gov officials
how would one go about getting in here ?!?
You literally read the wikipedia entry for "Anchor telephone exchange" word for word :-) Not that i'm complaining, its awesome to actually see these places, keep up the good work
GOT TO GET THE INFO FOR THE VID SOMEWHERE LOL
what a one hellof a place i was hoping you would find the nuclear site because it would be huge and if it did get released where would it open up at cause i am really interested in knowing ,you have a really exciting life exploring these sites thank you matthew now i understand why the dod/mod are so bloody jumpy about you, but i am pleased you are there to be a pain in there arses,,the other thing i would love you to look behind is the red door as it is killing me not knowing is behind it i think it could be a tunnel system/connected with the dod,/that care with sincere thank you from new zealand
They’re a lot cleaner and empty than when we explored them in 97
There were ww2 tunnels under and probly still there in some way and other..this is tip of ice berg ..under rounder.bull ring.i was there in 60s AND 70s loads of under and upper site's..
Always wanted to go on a bunker dive but never knew anyone that does it hats of lads great work 👍
Omg😱 He was so brave Abseiling down there. RESPECT.❤
All you needed was a set of D keys for that cover
My question is which entrance did you use and where did all those other doorways seen in many parts of the video lead to? And maybe you should have tried the opposite direction to the one you took - I feel it would have taken you to the Fleet Street/Jewellery Quarter side...
i think its best we dont identify entrances for security reasons.
@@TheSecretVault from what I can see, there's only one tunnel (no comms) which has another tunnel connecting to the left of it - which is the same as the first one you guys took - the entrance isn't too far from the Queensway...
@@AsceticFocus sounds like you know a few things about this system! I have a access point for the Victoria square part of the tunnel system and also the old dale end part of your down to share some details?
@@bombcaryah I'm down, what would you like to know and when? :)
@@AsceticFocus can I contact you any other way mate?
Arise Sir Matt, Lord of the Urbex. I never ever thought anyone would get in there, bloody well done my friend, awesome work.
Yooo that was crazy, I probably would’ve panicked like mad cos I’m not in to tight places like that but yeah what a fantastic video lads
You going in bud
This video is hilarious. Brave 'urban explorers' walking round well lit and maintained BT cable tunnels and ducts as found in every major city at varying depths. How brave it must have felt to follow the fire exit signs and escape routes to get in/out. I commissioned STC TXK4 exchanges in the late 70s, nothing unusual about any of this content, unless you are under 40 years old.
Gotta make sure the batteries wear protection 🤷♂️😂 great vid mate always love watching your vids
Am i the only person that gives Matt's video a like before i have even watched it as i just now its going to be class.
Mathew, this is very interesting and am putting it away for tomorrow (go to go to work early in the morning!) I will email you about it for my mother was a Cleaner Supervisor at the Tower building in Newhall street in the early 1960's and sometimes she would take me with her - I was actually in that building when I was 10 years old!
Amazing! Thanks so much for documenting this place! It would be neat to see the Manchester one!
i think so too.
There is a 3 part video of the Guardian. Someone walks around the whole place. think it was shot in the mid 19's
Pro tip when climbing ladders (either ascending or descending) hands go on the verticals & feet go on the horizontals that way somebody above you cannot step on your hands. And, you cannot step on someone's hands below you,
just a suggestion.
The buildings surrounding the air vent have been derelict for some time, I feel the bunker is a factor into why no one’s developed them yet
Hi Richard I went looking yesterday. Do u know where I could check this out?
@@247vanmanBirmingham are you intending on going in and down? I’m not fussed if you do just interested? I do happen to know the way but for obvious reasons I wouldn’t reveal here. Not sure if there’s a messaging feature on this app
@@richardbeeston8627 could you message me somehow?
47:00 Duncan Campbell cable tunnel achievement/trophy unlocked.
Awesome place. I'd love to see more of it, I feel like we just got a little taste.
I'd love to transform a few rooms down there,.. Bet it's nice and cool 😂
Liked the vlog from Margaret P
Wow you britts have lots of secret tunnels and war tunnels thats just amazing here in sweden wee have butt not so many and the are just lockt up and seald. Just amazing playses you have bin to Matthew. Keep up the good work
Much the same for some of the places in the UK mate. A lot of great stuff would be left laying around if it wasn't for that horrible drymix concrete stuff 🤮 sometimes you get lucky and find a diamond in the rough.
I can't count on one hand how many bunkers have been filled within a mile of where I live.
I feel like Sweden probably has more in the cities ready to use these days though, I believe there’s a whole government department in Sweden to look after them & you have those warning siren tests quite often.
Locked* sealed* places* been*
you need to make a "T" Bar key to help open that lid
Is there a map of this place?
brilliant video really enjoyed it thanks
Awesome places you go Matt , u ever been under Norwich city ??? Or under Suffolk apparently they had a start of a underground tube or some kind of station so I’ve heard
same kind of lies to build a bunker I bet...
I wonder if anyone has tried calling the telephone numbers. Are they still connected?
BOUND TO BE
Lived 4 miles from the post office tower since 1979 and never heard of this place before, thanks for sharing this one Matt and the other lads, most interesting
They have open days every so often and you can go on a guided tour and at least once a year they feature in the Birmingham mail.
@@havingalook. thanks f/or the info but too old and disabled to manage, but the idea sounds good
Guided tours? Are you sure ?
Urbex groups have for several years regarded this site with speculation , i remember following a long discusion about nothing more than speculation of possible access points, the post was eventually locked as the replies were just repeated speculation.
Gawd knows how these chaps gained access, but fair play to them and thier research and courage.
That's a substation. The fire signage will flash to warn you if the room is about to be purged with CO2.. If you don't get out when they flash, you won't get far without dropping
yep best not be around when the lights are flashing for sure....
I've heard the other entrances are in the queensway tunnels, not easy to access tho.
The Queensway tunnels just pop out by the town hall from memory. It's been probably 25 years since I was last down there.