Just amazing..Wonder how many more there is all over sydney undiscovered..When you think of it once the elderly pass away they take their knowledge and secrets with them..Great Find!!
Pine Gap has many underground layers. Levels 9-16 are full of aliens. I kid you not. There are underground tunnel systems all over Australia. Loads in Melb Victoria. Tunnels also leading from Lucas Heights Sydney. Also old train tunnels lead to deep underground cave and tunnel systems.
Growing up in the area AND being into Urbex this is the Holy Grail I've never been able to achieve. Heard many stories in the late 80's about school. friends getting in there. Been out there with a mate and spoke to locals who said they'd gotten a bit fed up with people trying (at all hours of the night) trying to get in there.
We would go down there when we were kids, it was a horse paddock back then. We would enter at the same spot but we would get to the operation room it had a big map of Australia on the wall.. it was pretty cool but it scared the shit out of me very time we went in there
Pity they didn't have decent lighting with them. The facility still had power & phones connected unit the late 1960's. Some arseholes broke in & burnt the place out in the early 1970 's & that was it. There were many rumours of tunnels radiating through the back of the hill down towards RAAF Bankstown. Further down Marion Street is Railway Parade which is alleged to have got its name from an underground (miners style) railway which lead awards the airfield.
So very interesting! I had no idea the bunker existed until last year. I lived in the area in the 70s. I had hoped to take my children through for a tour, but after seeing your video, that's clearly not on the cards. What a shame it wasn't preserved as a museum. I read this week that it was set on fire by a teenager in the early 70s.
Kathy Obierzynski Yeah they say it was just burnt by teenager's but it wasn't. They had plans put through to make it a museum and just before it was approved mysteriously was burnt
it can still be that way, was good to see the bunker ripped out from under us, the sale was stopped by public, well done to the folks of townsville. click on our movies and doco's. every click helps us to stop this from being sold. 49% of our profit goes back to veterans and their families and educate our kids on the price of freedom is always paid for in blood
I recall a customer many years ago told me there was a bunker located in Sydney during WWII. She worked there. Unfortunately she has since passed and I wish I had listened more as I don't recall where it was supposed to have been.
The Bankstown Bunker (Air Defence Headquarters Sydney) is a defunct Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) operations facility, located on the corner of Marion and Edgar Street, Bankstown, New South Wales. After the arrival of General Douglas MacArthur in Australia during the Second World War, Bankstown Airport was established as a key strategic air force base to support the war effort. During this period the specially constructed bunker became an important RAAF headquarters from 1945 until its closure in 1947.[1] The Bankstown bunker is currently buried under a public park which lies at the end of Taylor Street.... source wikipedia
Was this bunker and it's tunnels ever operational or was it built in preparation of the Japanese invasion? Where can I find out more about this? I have been told by some Camden NSW locals that there is a bunker near the airport in the area.
I believe it was fully operational during WW2 and was used as an operations centre for flights from Bankstown airport .There is some reports there was tunnels than ran to where the Chullora rail yards are today . Chullora was used as a military warehouse , Also rumours of a 2nd bunker under where the PIcnic Point sub station sits today
Come to Bankstown library and ask the Local Historian(s). They know a lot. Also, check out the office of The Torch, where, on request, you can read old copies of The Torch from that era.
I would buy that property where the access is and spend many hours excavating the whole thing why? Because its the type of thing I love 2 do grew up in Sydney and there are many more of these places lost to time especially under George street in Sydney I have even been inside the brick walled tank stream not to mention the many forgotten rail tunnels way before urban exploring became a thing.Have also done nearly all of the north and south head fortification tunnels that are now sealed off also all of the tunnels in Newcastle on the head under the fortifications when they where open and the tunnels under Stockton navel base that contain the entrances to the 2 tunnels that ran under the harbor that are sealed with water tight seals we didn't try to open them on either end. The stockten side was still powered with the switches to open the water tight portals but the naval base was still active and we where there illegally,whereas the other entry point under the fortifications was no longer powered.May I say on the Stockton side there appeared to be water seepage from the membrane so not a good idea to open it anyway.To this day I believe the Stockton side is still sealed off and government property but there are ways in if you spend the time to look but bear in mind its trespass on government controlled lands and if caught it will probably not end well.
This would have been an interesting exploration if -a) we could have actually seen something with some more adequate lighting (why would you go into what you knew would be a pitch black environment with such piss-ant torches?), and b) if we did not have to listen to that god awful music.
Just amazing..Wonder how many more there is all over sydney undiscovered..When you think of it once the elderly pass away they take their knowledge and secrets with them..Great Find!!
Pine Gap has many underground layers.
Levels 9-16 are full of aliens.
I kid you not.
There are underground tunnel systems all over Australia.
Loads in Melb Victoria.
Tunnels also leading from Lucas Heights Sydney.
Also old train tunnels lead to deep underground cave and tunnel systems.
Growing up in the area AND being into Urbex this is the Holy Grail I've never been able to achieve.
Heard many stories in the late 80's about school. friends getting in there.
Been out there with a mate and spoke to locals who said they'd gotten a bit fed up with people trying (at all hours of the night) trying to get in there.
Next time you go.... take a Led light
We would go down there when we were kids, it was a horse paddock back then. We would enter at the same spot but we would get to the operation room it had a big map of Australia on the wall.. it was pretty cool but it scared the shit out of me very time we went in there
When was this ?
Pity they didn't have decent lighting with them. The facility still had power & phones connected unit the late 1960's. Some arseholes broke in & burnt the place out in the early 1970 's & that was it. There were many rumours of tunnels radiating through the back of the hill down towards RAAF Bankstown. Further down Marion Street is Railway Parade which is alleged to have got its name from an underground (miners style) railway which lead awards the airfield.
This was about mid 70s there was an opening in the horse paddock, but townhouses have been built on it now
So very interesting! I had no idea the bunker existed until last year. I lived in the area in the 70s. I had hoped to take my children through for a tour, but after seeing your video, that's clearly not on the cards. What a shame it wasn't preserved as a museum. I read this week that it was set on fire by a teenager in the early 70s.
Kathy Obierzynski
Yeah they say it was just burnt by teenager's but it wasn't. They had plans put through to make it a museum and just before it was approved mysteriously was burnt
it can still be that way, was good to see the bunker ripped out from under us, the sale was stopped by public, well done to the folks of townsville. click on our movies and doco's. every click helps us to stop this from being sold. 49% of our profit goes back to veterans and their families and educate our kids on the price of freedom is always paid for in blood
I recall a customer many years ago told me there was a bunker located in Sydney during WWII. She worked there. Unfortunately she has since passed and I wish I had listened more as I don't recall where it was supposed to have been.
The Bankstown Bunker (Air Defence Headquarters Sydney) is a defunct Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) operations facility, located on the corner of Marion and Edgar Street, Bankstown, New South Wales. After the arrival of General Douglas MacArthur in Australia during the Second World War, Bankstown Airport was established as a key strategic air force base to support the war effort. During this period the specially constructed bunker became an important RAAF headquarters from 1945 until its closure in 1947.[1] The Bankstown bunker is currently buried under a public park which lies at the end of Taylor Street.... source wikipedia
But WHY the porn music?? And WHY show the ground-penetrating radar images 999 times??!
Don't military bunkers make you feel hot and flustered baby?
There is one of these buildings behind the Stuart Police station in Townsville
Was this bunker and it's tunnels ever operational or was it built in preparation of the Japanese invasion? Where can I find out more about this? I have been told by some Camden NSW locals that there is a bunker near the airport in the area.
I believe it was fully operational during WW2 and was used as an operations centre for flights from Bankstown airport .There is some reports there was tunnels than ran to where the Chullora rail yards are today . Chullora was used as a military warehouse , Also rumours of a 2nd bunker under where the PIcnic Point sub station sits today
Come to Bankstown library and ask the Local Historian(s). They know a lot. Also, check out the office of The Torch, where, on request, you can read old copies of The Torch from that era.
I would buy that property where the access is and spend many hours excavating the whole thing why? Because its the type of thing I love 2 do grew up in Sydney and there are many more of these places lost to time especially under George street in Sydney I have even been inside the brick walled tank stream not to mention the many forgotten rail tunnels way before urban exploring became a thing.Have also done nearly all of the north and south head fortification tunnels that are now sealed off also all of the tunnels in Newcastle on the head under the fortifications when they where open and the tunnels under Stockton navel base that contain the entrances to the 2 tunnels that ran under the harbor that are sealed with water tight seals we didn't try to open them on either end. The stockten side was still powered with the switches to open the water tight portals but the naval base was still active and we where there illegally,whereas the other entry point under the fortifications was no longer powered.May I say on the Stockton side there appeared to be water seepage from the membrane so not a good idea to open it anyway.To this day I believe the Stockton side is still sealed off and government property but there are ways in if you spend the time to look but bear in mind its trespass on government controlled lands and if caught it will probably not end well.
I appreciate the strict narration esp. at the beginning of the vid. Do you do environmental site assessment work?
yes we do and more
This would have been an interesting exploration if -a) we could have actually seen something with some more adequate lighting (why would you go into what you knew would be a pitch black environment with such piss-ant torches?), and b) if we did not have to listen to that god awful music.
Too dark , buy better torch
It was actually RAAF property and 2 service families were living there until it was damaged and then dveloped to cover it up.
The music really ruins this ! Way better torches could have been used aswell.