Finding WW2 Heritage in Totton & Ashurst, New Forest

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Join my son and I on another World War 2 discovery mission through the New Forest and Hampshire area. This weekend we visit Ashurst, Calmore, Eling, and Totton to see what Second World War relics, air shelters, and evidence we can find.
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In this episode we find air raid shelters in Totton and Ashurst, plus one north of the village of Calmore. We are also lucky enough to be invited to visit a private air raid shelter in a friend's garden in the Totton area of Southampton.
If you like exploring World War 2 air raid shelters, heritage, sites, and abandoned structures in the New Forest, Hampshire, and Southampton please check our social media links below.
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Here's a link on the BBC to an account of Eling in Hampshire being bombed during WW2:
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- Window of Your Heart by Robbie Jason Hancock
- Stay Right Where You Are by Louis Yoelin
- Morning Sun by Will Van De Crommert
Please do not visit any sites on private land unless you have been given permission by the landowner.
I do not own the archive footage in this video. Every attempt was made to locate the owners of these. I do not own all images used in this film and have credited them where the source is known. I have used all of the above in a non-profit and educational capacity only.
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@lindaog59 2 года назад

Brilliant video, thank you. We still have a concrete half-buried Anderson in our back garden in Totton. Blast wall still intact, as are the wooden steps and staging inside. Most neighbours seem to have had them removed, but we love ours.

@TrexplorerUK 2 года назад

Thank you Linda, I understand there are a handful like yours in Totton still in private gardens - definitely lucky to have it. I wish we had one!

@AW-eo5sk 2 года назад

Really enjoyed this video, the first shelter you visited at Ashurst Bridge was very close to where I grew up and I remember my dad showing it to me. I also wasn’t aware that the green one was a shelter, I thought it was some sort of gas or electricity mains. I know this video is quite old now, but there’s a stand-alone concrete shelter (not dissimilar to the first one in this video) in the woodland off the A35 near Rushington Business Park at about 50°54'20"N 1°29'57"W. The woods were a regular haunt growing up and it was there and in good condition when I was a teenager (about a decade ago). Unfortunately I suspect it’s on private land (from memory there was a few fences you had to scramble over) and a quick look on street view shows the woodlands to be quite overgrown, but thought I’d let you know. Probably wouldn’t recommend trying to access it these days (I’m not even sure how to enter the woods today - we always got in through the adjacent field that backed onto a mates garden) but might be useful if you’re compiling any sort of map or database on the subject. As an aside, there’s also a basic small concrete one (with blast wall intact) in a very neat and rustic looking front garden on Kneelers Lane near Langley Manor cricket ground (about 5 minutes in the opposite direction) from the underpass at which you start the video.

@TrexplorerUK 2 года назад

Thanks for the kind comments, and it's very interesting. I've since learned that the green one was a meeting point for the local Air Raid Warden officers so suspect it was dual purpose. I love this local history, and glad others do too, so thanks I will take a look

@NaomisAdventures 3 года назад

That's really cool. Thanks for sharing

@Suffolktruckspotting 2 года назад

I really enjoyed this video great work

@TrexplorerUK 2 года назад

Thanks Daniel, just waiting for the weather to Geta bit better to get out again and do some more videos - cheers!

@Suffolktruckspotting 2 года назад

@@TrexplorerUK be awesome I'll keepy eyes open

@rancidschannel3206 Год назад

Love this area. I drive train past these locations an often wondered what eas beside the line or if servicemen used the station. I have a competiton with a fellow driver to spot the anti tank traps along the route

@rancidschannel3206 Год назад

Lots of Railway bridges on the Bournemouth line have pill boxes built in.

@rancidschannel3206 Год назад

Nice the names live on

@andrewmcintyre8636 3 года назад

I had a feeling David Harrison might get a mention in this video 👍

@TrexplorerUK 3 года назад

David and I both have a shared interest in this kind of thing :-)

@robertgarrett4046 3 года назад

I know of some old air raid shelters that are up near Laundry Rd near Maybush in Southampton this is fairly close to where I was born , I am not sure but I believe there could still be quite a few original concrete anti Tank square--ish / tank traps also in an open park / common area. Rob.

@TrexplorerUK 3 года назад

When the world is less crazy, I plan to do some more videos nearer and in the city. There's lots hidden in plain sight I believe so will be interesting to find them :-)

@newforestexplorer 3 года назад

I was looking into going to that one at the end there sometime this week. The first one you showed I know the tunnel so I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled next time I’m out that way