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We spent a very hot sunny day on the beach at Spurn many years ago, with my wife and kids. We had a fantastic day, the kids loved it, we could see them wherever they went. You couldn't have had a better time anywhere else abroad ? We packed up in the evening, reluctantly going home, kissed by the sun and the salt air. Kids exhausted but slept like logs full of fresh air.

There's a shelter / gunners point at spurn point near the cafe/visitors centre

Very cosy for 50, must of been built by the same people who build caravans these days, and tell you they sleep 10 'comfortably' .....

It's great that you got permission to film down there as this is a part of Hull's history.

Hi from sunny hessle rd,

Where's St Wilfrid's Needle?

fun fact me and my mates put the pallete there

Nice video. That really was a basic shelter and just to keep people safe from shrapnel i imagine as its not deep and only brick so wouldnt have taken much close explosion

Interesting to see.. If you're interested in air raid shelters, there used to be lots of them in Brough, between BAe Systems and the Humber at Brough Haven , one lays behind the Buccaneer pub on a piece of waste land to the left of the car park also..

Thank you for your post, it was really interesting. I remember sitting on top of this structure in the early sixties. I was about six or seven. ( I am sixty seven now). It was clearly visible and a great place for kids to explore. There was a English Electric Lightning and a vampire carcass a bit further to the east near the end of the runway that was used by the Station fire crew for training. I spent many weekends there, my Dad was the CFI of the Lincolnshire Gliding Club as it was known then. T21, T31 Olimpia, Dart were the aircraft that were flown at the time. Happy memories, but things change beyond recognition after my last visit there (60 years ago). Once again thank you.

I dont live far from there. Never knew it was there.

Looks very atmospheric

I believe this is actually a OP ,the battle hq is on private land on south end just before you leave the village,you can see the watchtowers through the trees

Great stuff. Keep up the good work...

What an amazing survivor, and a tribute to the citizens of Hull who suffered so badly back then.

We lived at Anlaby Park and as a teenager I helped my dad demolish our air raid shelter. It was easily as big as this one.

My family lived on Beverley high Road. There still is an air raid shelter in the garden.

Can anyone go down into the crypt?

How do you find this place?

not even close very small I really think I need to Very depp with the interest not be visible to anyone and then I have a corridor yes some few doors inside the storage food and nice size to family. Living room beds and toilets and off course a kitchen

I big good Endra to make I really good size Bunker

Good morning, I would love to check this out to see if it's still there is there anyway of getting InTouch bud

Very cool mausoleum

Cracking video, thanks guys

I reckon if there ever had been an attack on theses places a few carefully lobbed hand grenades down the entrance, emergency hatch or even through one of the slits,m the compression would have taken out everyone inside or at least burst their ear drums. Fascinating history though. I have been exploring a lot in the Falklands and I have taken video of artefacts of the Falklands railway including about 10 littlemside tipping wagons,some rail and a complete set of track points along with some Bren Gun Carriers chassis (mini tanks) which were bought cheap after WWII any farmers, all lying in mud and slowly rotting away. I also found a lot of remains of the partly demolished ESRO satellite tracking system head gear and tower (a very early prerunner of ESA) which again was just left to rot away in the peat. Dine there they have so many amazing artifacfs like the big Iron Lady Elizabeth sailing ship just rotting away … they have no interest or money in preserving anything down there which is a real shame but saying that, they don’t destroy much and just leave things for 57 year old kids like me who love recording history to explore and climb all over. A bit like Britain was innthe 60s and 70s when there was so much shit to explore before it all got demolished and cleared away.

Great video me and my dad have been down to Kilnsea and spurn point quite a few times over the years we love it down there also we have been to see all the pillboxes up and down the coast

Nice find hopefully stays forever.

Lovely bit of film , thank you x

This the croxton next to thetford?

Go to the original craven St 'the railway arches 'where the embankment finishes 'the arch there was bricked up for public use as a air raid shelter during ww2

I think there used to be one of these near West Bulls car park.

Well done, nice to actually see inside a BHQ for a change. Never saw one yet that wasn`t flooded to one degree or another.

Sounds like a woman says ''Hello'' likely human. However it sounds like it's down there with you. 0:58

I lived just round the corner in Crowle Ave. Hotham street,Ferries street and Crowle street itself . I delivered papers all over this area as a kid back in 1959/63. Mick Covill...mmm rings a bell?

Will do HB 👍

most interesting to see this as I have often visited Hexham Abbey in the past but never seen inside this crypt

I remember it having the metal lid (30 years ago) that was padlocked shut. Think it was similar to the one at Holmpton that's now gone

I was brought up in kinneff and know where this is but have never visited it. Thanks for the video.

How do you find it! I have tried twice!

I lived in Goxhill from around 1991 -95. Used to walk my dogs all around there and the old airfield etc. it was all pretty much intact, the runways for example had not been dug up, the control tower was there, air raid Anderson shelters, aircraft tie down points etc. That BHQ structure was completely visible and free of brambles etc back then, also dry. You could get in fairly easily. Shame it’s all gone and been reclaimed by nature.

very pretty. NASA cited the clip today

I've visited this same one. I know of another communal shelter in Bridlington that I'd be happy to show you. Really well preserved. It's a sensitive location so I shouldn't say much here publicly. Is there a way I can PM you?

Cheers 👍🇬🇧

Built as per History Bum's comment, but also as a memorial to his wife. From the top you can see the church were she and he aslo are buried. Charles Boot, a building contractor, built Pinewood Studios.

Very interesting. 👍

Where is this in Hull?

I guess that smells like shit

I went to Chiltern Street "Infants" as a tiddler. Long gone sadly, but looked much like this one, typically Victorian. Also my "Junior" school in Gordon Street around the corner, that's gone too. I think there is a brick column still extant with the legend "Girls" or "Boys" I forget which. The good old days of segregation eh? Even my senior school Riley High has gone too, and it was less than 50 years old. I started when it was brand spanking new, but sadly it is no more. Lived in Australia now for nearly 48 years but get back to Hull occasionally. Thanks for sharing these great reminders of the city of my birth....

Amazing great video

Still looking for this place any advice many thanks keep up the good work