12 December 2011, 11:24
(12 December 2011, 10:53)mikebratcher69 Wrote: I'm doing the same as we speak looking for derelict buildings, so as to move from one to the other maybe, city survivals harder, my bol's outside the city but I have to be prepared in case I cant get there...
Have you surveyed your area using both a map and Google earth?, not trying to teach granny to suck eggs of course, but finding suitable hidy holes, safe houses etc is a passion on mine than I feel many of us neglect or only pay lip service to.
EG I recently found out many telephone exchange buildings build after the mid 50s onwards had bunker rooms built into the cellars in order to house the GPO phone engineers during a nuclear war, but of course with the advent of microprocessors they are all long since redundant. Leaving these shelters unused.
If you can get hold of a copy try and read " Beneath the City Streets" by Peter Laurie its loaded with info, and if you look up the website Subterania Brittanica ( much loved by the great survivalist archivist John Locke) its loaded with useful info as well.