There's also a tunnel system that runs under the roads of the CBD about 10M down that follows the roads of the CBD. They even have street signs says what street your under. They're used for Power, Comms & other utilities. I've worked in them, and parts of them are very old. You do need high security clearance to access them though.
True. They actually built newer ones (concrete) when the redbrick ones became congested. They are all alarmed now to a rapid response security firm. It's also a federal offense under the telecommunications act to enter them without permission.
@@CaveClanMedia. Yes, when I was working down them, they were concrete, though the outer extremes I believe are still the old red brick. They were when I was working down there in the mid 90's. Story goes, that at the very end off the tunnel along Burke st leading to what is now Southern Cross Station, someone had gotten a skeleton and dressed it up with PMG overalls, gloves, boots, and a helmet, and left it against the very end wall as if a PMG worker had gotten lost & died down there. lol.
I haven't seen them since they upgraded the alarm system & the federal police warned us to stay out of them, but they've changed a lot since the 90s. Sydney has an amazing system too, but they were locked up and alarmed after a disgruntled ex-worker cut some cables (he avoided the emergency lines).
I remember finding a cave clan zine and map in the '50th' under Sunshine back in 1990. The map took us to a meet up in the city loop underbelly. Fun times
Back in the 80s where i grew up you could follow this wild underground tunnel at blind creek from the east to the west underneath Knox City shops. it was sketchy as doing that mission especially when the council blocked off the end near the skateboard park and you had to walk all the way back
Ah nice but all the telstra tunnels that run under every street named are pretty cool Lower Bourke, lower Little Bourke etc. There is also a telstra tunnel in Nth Melb. There was a tunnel between the children's and the royal Melbourne along Flemington road. Been in all of them in the 80's.
I've worked in those city tunnels also around the mid 90's. Was an eye opener when I first went down there. I knew about the Hospital tunnels. Telstra tunnel in Nth Melb? I don't know about that one. Is it out of Nth Melb exchange? Worked in there allot back in late 80's to 2k or so, and never heard about that one.
@@SirDaffyD Yeah it was out of there, was only short though from memory. I was a plumber at the Gas & Fuel and we would go down to detect for leaks every so often when called. There was also an entry to the tunnels i think up in Flinders lane that i went down a few times.
@@PlasticAssasin8. Access to the main city tunnels was via the Exhibition Exchange. Though there was access on at least one cnr of all the major intersections in the CBD itself, but you needed keys from the Exhibition Exchange security, and it was around a 10m climb straight down via a ladder too the tunnels themselves. Only used the ladder once myself. It was a nervous climb. lol.
It's sad. Indigenous Australia knows their history back to when they came to this land, while transported/migrant Australia has forgotten most of the 235 years since arrival.
I'm not a mudder myself, but have been amused by their nonsense. Some of the reconstruction drawings are amazing. I though they might latch on to a story like this.
The Cave Clan began in 1986? I did my HSC in 84 and I remember seeing 'The Cave Clan' Graffiti on Richmond station. BTW Does anyone remember about 1983 White brush painted Graffiti at East Richmond station: 'Blinky Bill Shall Rise'?
Yeah, we started doing stuff in the summer of '85 / '86 then cane up with the name on Jan 26, 86. I don't remember the Blinky Bill stuff specifically, although I remember big white wash letters that spelt CINEMA5. I'm yet to find someone else that remembers it.
Going into Storm Water Drains is hardly a Secret underground World and excavating an old building finding some old bottles is as significant as trolling the local Tip, must have been a very slow news day
I did one of these digs when I was in high school. I spent most of it digging up rubbish. Archeology is rubbish. It's important because we don't have a lot of information about the poorest people of the 19th century. They didn't keep journals like the other tiers of society and often didn't tell their decedents about their pasts. When their lives were written about it was by people with an agenda either to improve conditions or to show they were terrible people. Digs like this of inner city Melbourne give us glimpses of their lives we wouldn't have otherwise.
I have heard rumours of child trafficking in the underground tunnels of Melbourne for many years, I didn’t think much of it but now seeing this on the news, it makes me wonder.
Qanon rumors. If you were going to traffic children, then using trucks would be easier than tunnels that regularly flood or are regularly used by service people. Cave Clan and hundreds of other people have been exploring under Australian cities & never seen a single sign. The usual Qanon cultists' response to me saying this is to say that I/we are all in on it. That's generally how you know a conspiracy theory is garbage - when it requires thousands of people, in this case, to cover up for evil traffickers of children.
There are tunnels from the building Whitehouse is now located in that have been blocked off that lead to what is now southern cross station. I was always annoyed I never had a spare moment for some exploration. Wasn’t one of them turned into an art gallery of sorts?
I've read your comment a few times, and it's got me stumped. I don't know the Whitehouse & I'm not sure about one of them being turned into a gallery, although that recently happened in Sydney 🤔
@@CaveClanMedia Whitehouse is a University in the old GPO building. I just had a look to see if I could find the tunnel turned gallery but I think that may have been closed off again since starting those new tunnels. That one was closer to flinders street than southern cross/spencer st station.
If I was the developer digging he foundations for that building, I would have just dug it up and taken it to landfill. And wouldn’t have said anything.
I'm planning on making a video soon to give people some tips. If you don't follow my IronFistDoug RU-vid account, keep an eye on that and I'll hopefully have something out before summer. You need to over over 18.
@@albertsaffron7582Maybe. Definitely a past Era. I think there was a global cataclysm, or a nuclear war, and we are rebuilding on the over the graves of once mighty, and advanced, civilizations.
@@allangibson8494 No Mate, In the late 1980s I had to TENDER for the Security of Telstra Tunnels. EVERY STREET in the Melbourne CBD has a Tunnel ( I believe in the middle of the Street). If TERRORIST ever get in be are toast. As I said, there are NO TELECOM lines on the poles in CBD....
@@allangibson8494 Thay may be part of it..I do not know, but if you ever get to see the Telephone Cables entering EXHIBITION TE or LONSDALE TE (Telephone Exchanges) - they are MASSIVE. All underground. I also did some Air Conditioning upgrades to both Exchanges.
I hope it's there. The last I heard it was an urban myth. They'd probably need to start from scratch if they decided to ever use it as it'd be about 50 years old now.
