Lepe ROC Post & Excavating a Buried ROC Bunker in Lyndhurst

This segment of film about the Lepe and Lyndhurst ROC posts was originally broadcast on BBC One South in 2012.
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[@newforestexplorer]

Ray thinks the post up at Alderbury has been demolished as he can’t see anything when he drives past now. Funny thing is just last week someone put a message up on my video of that bunker saying they need help as they’ve dropped their house keys and bus pass down there and are too afraid to climb down the ladder to retrieve them lol , they said they been there for six hours. I said best phone the police to help . An hour or so later they messaged saying they got their keys back with the help of the police . I thought it had to be a wind up. Especially as Ray recons it no longer exists 😂

[@TrexplorerUK]

How funny!

[@steveneastland4128]

Alderbury was showing extant as of 2 years ago, though this of course depends on how many were in the area, the condition has deteriorated since a couple of audits, one in 2017 and again in 2020

[@newforestexplorer]

@@steveneastland4128 Juat been informed that it is still there and not demolished

[@SPiderman-rh2zk]

@@newforestexplorer Is it possible perhaps that the post was obscured by crops growing in the fields? I've taken a few friends there over the years and we went once in the summer, they thought I was winding them up taking them through the field until we got very close and the compound appeared.

[@newforestexplorer]

@@SPiderman-rh2zk He couldn’t see it from the road apparently so yes it probably wasn’t visible because of the crop

[@stefanrobinson2920]

A shame it had been distroyed.