Once proud military sites that defended the British Isles during World War Two now lie abandoned and crumbling as nature reclaims them
Bases, bunkers, training camps and shelters lie forgotten and uncared for across the country
ABANDONED and crumbling these once proud military sites kept us safe from the Nazis during World War Two - but now pose no defence to nature’s relentless advance.
Overgrown and scarred by graffiti the bunkers, training camps and shelters lie empty and uncared for - a forgotten footnote to our triumph over fascism last century.
The eerie images were taken by an urban explorer who wishes to keep their identity cloaked.
They show sites from across the UK including a railway siding in Wiltshire - now daubed in neon paint - where ammunition was transferred by tunnel to an underground storage facility - rust eating away at its corrugated canopy.
The Officer’s Mess at RAF Yatesbury in Wiltshire once would have echoed to the sound of hungry personnel chowing down - but now with its windows missing and its facade crumbling, it is silent.
A giant radar tower still stands impassively on the banks of Thames near Tilbury. It was in operation between 1941 and 1943 to monitor shipping along the river’s minefield.
The rusting skeleton of a hall at the Bushfield army training camp near Winchester where Royal Green Jacket recruits were trained stands forlornly.
At RAF Llandow in South Wales a giant hangar risks being eclipsed by undergrowth that threatens to swallow it.
While a building on the site of RAF Stormy Down in Wales is almost entirely unreachable now.
Gun batteries on the Essex coast - made out of reinforced concrete have fared better with the passage of time - remaining stubbornly in position, while a pillbox still protects the Garston Lock along the Kennett and Avon canal in Berkshire.
In Surrey at RAF Wisley cornfields surround its once busy runway.
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