Take a tour of the shelter along with Simon himself. Can you believe its impressive backstory? It really makes you wonder what bits of history might be hidden in your very own driveway… kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZW2e5quhbtrgJo
@xslayz83996 жыл бұрын
Did You Know ? 10 and wow
@domianplanescrosser88316 жыл бұрын
COOL, AWESOME, CREEPY, AND HISTORICAL!!!!!!!!
@HomeImProveMentHow6 жыл бұрын
Did You Know ? That's incredible no telling what you might find or hidden compartments inside there
@ursaltydog6 жыл бұрын
A definite asset to his home's property... He can slather some new concrete inside.. weatherproof it more.. put in long sleeping bunks.. stock back water and provisions.. install a new ladder and hatch.. Great month of sundays project..
@MegaDirtyberty6 жыл бұрын
Good idea.......until others who watched this video will come looking for it in a disaster.
@robertperkins11846 жыл бұрын
The siren went off and my grandmother hurried everyone into her shelter (basement) in Swansea, Wales. The all clear was sounded and Nana emerged to find an unexploded bomb in her bedroom. She and my mom made it through the war. Yay!
@trippymemez87596 жыл бұрын
So your grandma or whoever keeps a live explosive?
@clydestribling23276 жыл бұрын
YES THAT GRANDMA SLEPT NEXT TO A BOMB THAT WAS DELIVERED VIA AIRMAIL ! READING COMPREHENSION A LITTLE LOW ?
@ghostbravomike28176 жыл бұрын
Clyde Str haha true
@jaytoor50886 жыл бұрын
Where abouts in Swansea? I lived in Uplands and Mumbles for a while
@nevillemason67916 жыл бұрын
I have a much smaller but similar shelter in Liverpool next to my house built 1934. The government encouraged homeowners to build shelters with new houses if they could afford one as war loomed. On tv a few years back in Lancashire a guy was tipped off by a neighbour when he moved into a new house he had a hidden shelter in the front garden as this video. He uncovered a beautifully built brick arched structure which he converted into a large wine cellar!
@cookingwithjesus6 жыл бұрын
I've never in my life heard anyone mispronounce Luftwaffe or Vauxhall before.
@jerseybean596 жыл бұрын
And "Lutton".
@eraldorh6 жыл бұрын
Yeah he sounds like a bit of a mong. Clearly doesnt put much effort into research.
@tommyfudgefinger6 жыл бұрын
And Luton.
@MrMAC89646 жыл бұрын
The americans or "child killers " as i call them, cant spell or pronounce anything . (ps they have now lost the right to a capitol letter as well)
6 жыл бұрын
Capital
@ZnenTitan6 жыл бұрын
Hmm, "Loofwaf and Vallhauza" I guessed he meant the German air force in WWII, but I swear I was scratching my head trying to figure out what the car was. (Never in my life have I heard anyone massacre the name Vauxhall with such cheery enthusiasm)
@willieboy87986 жыл бұрын
i spent a two tours flying over Europe in the US military. Stuff like this every where, in the ugliness of WWII is a beauty of history. thanks for posting it. Sir!!! I went to school in Britian, the English are wonderful people and they are strong willed. Stop nit picking a pronunciation at least they are not talking ill!
@lokki2456 жыл бұрын
"Baaams" dropped by the "Loooftwaaaf " ...ha ha ha
@TheMijman6 жыл бұрын
Lokki can't even say it right. jeez
@lokki2456 жыл бұрын
Sam Brown I know right! He's masquerading as a journalist but can't pronounce the name of one of the most famous air forces in history! ...even when it's a key aspect of the story's background.
@JoelHudson6 жыл бұрын
Lokki yea I'd bet he doesn't even know it translates to "RedWave" either.
@AndrewAMartin6 жыл бұрын
Joel Hudson got his translation from Nena's "99 Luftballon" in German became "99 Red Balloons" in English, LOL!
@finno1234566 жыл бұрын
Lokki I dropped a big looof waaaaaf in there that's why the door came off I was nearly buried in there a good job I was using a torch and not a match 😂😂😂
@carmelpule69546 жыл бұрын
At my old age I do remember the 1940-45 war and in Malta we have many of those shelters that the younger people do not know about. In my youth I used to walk in these shelters which were dug under the bastions built by the knights of St John in their fight against the Turkish Suleiman and Dragut Empires. I am probably the only one left where these old shelters are.
@goneinablinkofaneye97726 жыл бұрын
Carmel Pule' Please use google earth and maps to help record the information. to many of that generation's sacrifices have already been forgotten. Please.
@JasonTDolan6 жыл бұрын
1939-1945
@goneinablinkofaneye97726 жыл бұрын
Jason Thomas Dolan . im glad i live in the time i do. So glad indeed.
@alvaroakatico91886 жыл бұрын
Carmel Pule' I'm guessing you're 83 years old give or take a couple of years. Old is nothing but a number some would say, but they just don't know, they don't know.
@9999plato6 жыл бұрын
My grandparents immigrated from Malta and they told me about the bombings, the Church where a German bomb crashed down and failed to explode. Probably a slaave laborer whose act saved many. I heard the people were starving and ate anything moving.
@justinlis6686 жыл бұрын
At least it wasn't the septic tank
@kathleentyson67276 жыл бұрын
I am now 68. When i was in the fifth grade there was a house across the street that had an air raid shelter! Our teacher had heard about it and asked the owner if our class could tour it. It was really interesting to tour it. We had air raid drills monthly at my school they actually frightened me. The sound was low and slower at first,but then it would become quicker and deafeningly louder it was an ominous sound indeed. This was an interesting post thanks!
@D4mo846 жыл бұрын
Precision bombing raids on Liverpool, Birmingham and parts of London?? DID YOU not KNOW, almost every major City in the UK was carpet bombed? Talk about understatement.
@notsure80415 жыл бұрын
My neighbor who just bought several acres across from me told me he had found a underground shelter. So I went to check it out, when I got over there he popped his head out of a round hole about 15 inches across. I said its not very big is it and he was like no only about 5 x 8. He was in a septic tank from an old mobile home.
@stuartwatkin39696 жыл бұрын
The pronouncing of some of these words are terrible....
@calebklyne64066 жыл бұрын
Stuart Watkin you leave vo-haul out of this haha
@PokemonLord6666 жыл бұрын
This sentence was poorly constructed. ****Pronunciation****
@angeladeen61686 жыл бұрын
Stuart Watkin not all pro's are called Nancy! And so what my names terribinka! ( how rude)😀😁😂
@Kjca_19986 жыл бұрын
VOHUAL 😂😂😂
@plumpstery51996 жыл бұрын
luftwaff
@oleggorky906 Жыл бұрын
I thought you were going to say that they found a burial site for an ancient noble, filled with treasure. 😮
@Bookiemouncher6 жыл бұрын
I wouldn’t have told the news or anyone lol, I’d make it a chill hang out spot.
@joewoodchuck38246 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed the video. The problem is that your secret room is no longer a secret. The other point is that in the U.S. at least we'd be charged extra property tax once the town finds out about it .
@chapiit086 жыл бұрын
Right on! I personally wouldn't advertise such a find.
@stash.6 жыл бұрын
Its beside the pavement at the end of the driveway where people walkpast regularly
@nieze6 жыл бұрын
Precisely my thought
@alanpartridge21406 жыл бұрын
Burt Habard No you do not get taxed on the number of rooms, council tax bands are determined by the value of the property, the "bedroom tax" only applies to those on benefits who get large houses courtesy of the state.
@TestTheAcid6 жыл бұрын
if you call a 1 bed flat with a storage room a large house youre a moron, its a strawman tax which is why they make landlords take it , if it was lawful why dont they do what they usually do give with one hand and take it with the other.
@alanbrown3976 жыл бұрын
Voh hall? lutt on? loooft waff ? Next thing you know, he'll be off to the Isle of Wiggit.
@bluemarshall61806 жыл бұрын
Alan Brown 99 Balloons?
@BrianC16646 жыл бұрын
you mean the izzle of wig-hit
@andilock82766 жыл бұрын
At a company in Manchester (England) where I once worked, I had parked my car in the car park one morning and was walking across it to start work when I noticed a very deep hole opening up! When the company inspected it, that too turned out to be a large air raid shelter nearly thirty yards long and fifteen feet wide!
@andilock82766 жыл бұрын
Oooooooo! Lol such profanity haha I doubt it was, she was only five feet tall haha!
@phoenixman85695 жыл бұрын
I remember my late mum telling me of her times in Great Brittan when she was a child and her mum taking her to refuge in those (tube stations)when the warning sirens rang for everyone to scramble to shelter when bombers came and the all clear signal when it was over.
@zzdoodzz6 жыл бұрын
An air raid shelter with 1 to 2 feet of dirt overtop of it. Maybe its's me but a direct or nearby hit would do quite a number on that thing.
@tuel32706 жыл бұрын
It was a *groundbreaking* discovery
@iAmIronMan06055 жыл бұрын
Drawing the shit out like a boss
@TheMrhycannon6 жыл бұрын
Storm shelter would have been my guess but then I'm in the US Midwest.. My son stepped in a hole while mowing our yard.. When we checked we found a den about 3 feet round.. we followed the tunnel to a neighbor's yard and under their porch.. They had a dog back there.. They sometimes fed here her but did nothing more.. We figured she must have been bored and did the digging as busy-work..
@wiretamer57106 жыл бұрын
The way the development of WW2 bomb shelters is described here is very problematic. The government resisted the use of subways for a long time because of the risk of flooding. And people didn't just decide to build shelters spontaneously. UK culture at the time simply didn't work like that. The government micro-planned everything and the people for the most part did what they were told.
@KevinSmith-qi5yn6 жыл бұрын
I started watching this, then they said Luton, England and I instantly thought Bomb Shelter.
@Aidan-ym7nm6 жыл бұрын
A similar experience happened at our Home a year before we moved out, we were going to replace our old concrete patio in the backgarden with a wooden plank one since the concrete was rather distasteful at the time, as as they were removing the concrete we discovered a set of concrete stairs that led to a 8x8 feet shelter, at the front of the stairs was a small empty pit that went into the earth which was used to drain any water, we decided to keep the shelter and store our belongings in it (which we later regret because of rainfall through the wooden boards causing our possessions to be damaged). But it was an unexpected sight to know we had been having meals out in our garden right above a bomb shelter.
@dusterdude2386 жыл бұрын
Great Find Simon! Cheers and Best of Brittan to you! :)
@bigfaucet51766 жыл бұрын
Is love the strongest of all emotions?
@savitrrakatamatah72566 жыл бұрын
I pulled in my friends driveway one time and the front tire of my van dropped in a hole. It turned out to be a water well that was brick lined. It was used to pump water into the boiler tanks on steam locomotives. He later found out his house was originally a train station in our small town/village before they moved the tracks like a thousand feet to the west of his house and quit using passenger train cars. Our village was originally supposed to be a big city in the 1800's then a town emerged just like ten miles down and got big quick leaving our town just a village instead of a town or city.
@k.chriscaldwell41416 жыл бұрын
The homeowner will probably be hit with a fine for not having a building permit for the shelter, another fine for not having a permit for the excavation, yet another fine for the condition of his driveway, and a higher tax assessment, and back taxes and penalties, for the additional two rooms in the shelter. A few months down the road the gun and badge thugs will kick in his door for suspicion of having a grow room under his home. An American citizen, not US subject.
@heathstjohn67756 жыл бұрын
Thanks for trying to keep it. Might make your house more valuable, for the historical associations.
@ZombieNazis6 жыл бұрын
"He was baffled" Really? Its a small underground chamber in england. How is it NOT going to be an air raid shelter?
@Bv7915106 жыл бұрын
Awesome. It’s good to appreciate history
@dankukdathn39236 жыл бұрын
will definitely add more historical value to the house than some driveway; also if he could fix it up a bit, free bomb shelter / basement
@gfxgo40956 жыл бұрын
Local man back at it again
@MN-sc9qs6 жыл бұрын
Gerald eagerly put this right foot down on the top step of the ladder and then, with anticipation, decided to descend further into the unknown using his LEFT foot on the next step down. You could have made this longer if you tried a bit, but good job. :)
@sofabear15086 жыл бұрын
Wonderful pronunciation of Luton, Vauxhall and Luftwaffe 😂
@matriximaster6 жыл бұрын
WOW! I had no idea a Cooper Mini could do more damage than a bomb!
@Rebel96686 жыл бұрын
There's a room under my house that I've never had the desire to look into. When we got the place 8 years ago we were told that there was a dry cistern under a cap in the utility room. The former owners used it as a sort of cellar for canned veggies from their garden. I've never lifted the cement cap as I figure all I'd find in there would be cave crickets, lol. I have a small deep freezer sitting atop the cap.
@atomicknight76906 жыл бұрын
Rebel9668 you might also find a rotten corpse .
@Rebel96686 жыл бұрын
Doubtful as I know and am good friends with the former owners.
@thatpantransguy6 жыл бұрын
Wow!!!! That is so cool! I mean not that having to have bomb shelters is cool, but finding something so well preserved from a chaotic period in history is such a great find! I hope the British government protects it as a historical landmark. It would be a shame to lose it.
@1stTimeVenture6 жыл бұрын
this happened at my father in laws. we took a large truck into the back yard to deliver sheet metal for a project...well the wheel of the truck sunk...at first we just thought it was a old tree stump hole...but after getting the truck pulled out...we were faced with a old bomb shelter...where the sealed door collapsed under the weight of the truck..my father in law had lived there for 22 years never knowing that was buried in his back yard...it was pretty cool...he decided to just put a big peice of sheet metal over the open hole...and cover it back up..there was not really anything down in it..
@roberthaworth90976 жыл бұрын
Gotta love that British zoning. The thin steel doors look to have been covered with a layer of slate only 1.5" or so thick, so of course the entrance eventually collapsed. Big thing is, nobody told any subsequent owners about this huge void in their property; that's cause for legal action in the US, and I can't imagine the paperwork this guy will have to go through to "legitimize" his find as livable space, should he choose to do so.
@adelaidemarie6 жыл бұрын
Why in the world would he tell everyone about his Secret room?
@iamskilldog45386 жыл бұрын
Should be called guy from Luton finds air raid shelter under his driveway.
@victwenty23246 жыл бұрын
NICE WEED GROW ROOM IN THE DRIVE WAY
@lindabrookes17566 жыл бұрын
I have been told on several occassions that my Maternal Grandad who lived in Tooting / Mitcham, in SW London dug out a space under the floorboards in their kitchen in 1938. It was the lead up to the Second World War and the fear of invasion by Hitler's troops was very real. The space he made was a place for his wife and four daughters to hide if the Nazis invaded England. People laugh at Dad's Army but there was a very real fear of Invasion. I think it was the Battle of Britain, the war in the air over England, that stopped Hitler landing on English soil long enough for us to fight back in Europe. My father fought in the Middle East throughout the Second World War, to keep England (and thereby Europe) free from dictatorship. Their determination and courage , and of the many men and women in Btitain who lived tbrough this terrible time should not be dismissed lightly.
@chasevans71716 жыл бұрын
Vo haul. The car built in Lutton.... hilarious. Sorry to be pedantic but it's vauxhall (pronounced "VOX-ALL) and the place is Luton (LOO-TUN). Other than that, cracking vid of a bonkers discovery. I wish I had a driveway like that. Id buy a few old manequins and make some pop up zombies to scare people. Better entertainment than telly. Might have to wait until after pizza safely delivered before deploying though.
@guidedmeditation23966 жыл бұрын
Darn, no treasure or alien artifacts? It is still interesting.
@DaigoParry6 жыл бұрын
Why didn’t he try to become batman? He could hide his supercomputer and his car underneath it. He just needs to hire an Alfred. 😆
@GULF-BANK6 жыл бұрын
"They must have built the driveway on top of the shelter." Thanks
@mervyncouture11616 жыл бұрын
My mum said i spent my first Christmas in the tube as they called it
@alaskanalain6 жыл бұрын
A friend of mine found one in his garage. Narrator keeps repeating over and over how the driveway was damaged etc. in the beginning. Hardly anything gets said in the first 3 min.
@TheSexhaver26256 жыл бұрын
He looked so stunned in the thumpnail
@kaylieornelas80446 жыл бұрын
You can use the shelter room for a tornado 🌪 safe room it can serve the same purpose as it did for those in ww2
@epicuploader69366 жыл бұрын
I bet there's loads still uncovered
@colonelsanders40066 жыл бұрын
I'd auction off the old milk bottle and newspaper, reckon they'd fetch a decent price . .
@gordonadams58916 жыл бұрын
I had such a space under the garage. Turned out to be a septic tank.
@denkgod22726 жыл бұрын
Man I hate it when I accidentally break my driveway and have to excavate a historical landmark
@tirippin2966 жыл бұрын
Loftwuaf 😂 it’s called Luftwaffe😂
@dowserdude6 жыл бұрын
Now this would make a great wine cellar..
@LostWithoutCause6 жыл бұрын
i think thats what i'll do with it to be honest
@houstonbigfooter6 жыл бұрын
Or grow room.
@markhowards4206 жыл бұрын
Houston Bigfooter good idea in theory but not such a good spot seeing as it's under his driveway...
@davidporowski95126 жыл бұрын
Dowserdude Council will likely double your property taxes for extra bedrooms, then fine you for not meeting codes; like ventilation or fire exits. You Are Welcome for the warning.
@jonathantiedt98606 жыл бұрын
My great grandfather was in north Africa
@hamishferguson41666 жыл бұрын
uk secret room = grow room £££
@budlit18546 жыл бұрын
Hamish Ferguson UK weed good? Probably not !
@travis47986 жыл бұрын
Underground tea operation. I'll show myself out...
@1ukjunglednbraver6 жыл бұрын
little do you know
@andrewwilliams38836 жыл бұрын
Hamish Ferguson bro tell me y I was thinking the same thing ha
@K20DFX6 жыл бұрын
heard of stardawg? UK cheese? Wilsons Big Bud?
@CarswithNash6 жыл бұрын
That would be a cool find!
@carlagarrett32446 жыл бұрын
This was a nice share! thank you!
@FastBrian16 жыл бұрын
You'd think there would be something cool down there like pirate treasure or something.
@gosportjamie6 жыл бұрын
Luton (pronounced Loo-Ton, not Lutton,) was a good target for the Germans during WW2 as it was the home to the Vauxhall car factory which was employed in the production of military vehicles and equipment, as well as being close to London. A lot of German air raids were far from "precision" attacks as often, if the target was obscured by weather or smoke, or well-defended by anti-aircraft weapons, the pilots would drop their bombs anywhere...
@rickgravel66076 жыл бұрын
Sooooo cool!!!
@iHumerousDragon6 жыл бұрын
"loooftwaff" omg I'm dead its Luftwaffe...
@JavierFernandez016 жыл бұрын
Never forget.
@agowa74385 жыл бұрын
It would make a nice grow room.!
@RPDBY6 жыл бұрын
Hide and shelter and read, people indeed were different
@thomasjablonski91626 жыл бұрын
If I bought a house with this under it, well, I would make it a gun range out of it.
@ringocomedynews58256 жыл бұрын
My Great Grandfather Built a really cool air raid shelter it consisted of a very thick cuboid that was on wheels
@elvisjonesus6 жыл бұрын
Glad it was not an old septic tank.
@wehavealwaysbeenanointed49296 жыл бұрын
Might come into use, you never know mate. I'd clean it up, and make repairs, put it to good use. Put a couple cots, water, food, medicine, video games, trivia pursuit, short wave radio. You could clean it up, and set up local tours, and it could pay for its self? Lol
@mikehurley50526 жыл бұрын
Fill it with immigrants, 50 quid a week each.
@Lazarus-aap6 жыл бұрын
Did you know; it is pronounced "Luftwaffe" with an "uh" sound at the end... It's German for (freely translated) Airweapon. The way you say it would be the same as saying "Airweap"
@web11876 жыл бұрын
Wish i owned one !
@leeab28246 жыл бұрын
Hello Lancashire England amazing story cool
@thebrain93846 жыл бұрын
How about the actual sinkhole (in Florida) that swallowed the guy and his room while he was sleeping?
@FreshCoffeeParts6 жыл бұрын
Flame the weeds with a 500000 BTU torch.
@the51project6 жыл бұрын
the Luft-waf ? NOOOOO the Luft-Waf-fa
@acolyteoffire40776 жыл бұрын
i thought it was an old cistern before they said it was a air raid shelter
@revparsons3tl6 жыл бұрын
Nice man cave
@PaulSoulsby6 жыл бұрын
Hah! Looft-waff. I didn't know that.
@nickmajdalani78856 жыл бұрын
Turn it into a cool underground bar
@miami2pr6 жыл бұрын
So cool..!
@cadjs6 жыл бұрын
Lol, the bombing raids in ww2 were not "precision" raids! That's why so much damage was done in heavily populated areas.
@Ewoorg6 жыл бұрын
Wow great place for mancave =)
@njones4206 жыл бұрын
these are very common, a friend of mine discovered one in his garden after buying a new house a few years ago...very cool though.
@deadsparrow286 жыл бұрын
Now he's got somewhere to keep those kidnapped schoolgirls he was thinking of collecting.
@ammo3816 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't mind an extra room lol
@victwenty23246 жыл бұрын
to grow big budds yes we all live it
@666kickfliper6 жыл бұрын
The way he pronounces Luton is insane
@mariamoore56765 жыл бұрын
It is interesting, but a sad bit of history. I thought of Anne Frank and others that had to hide during war to avoid being taken or bombed. I think it would be a fitting tribute if he would turn the shelter into a virtual museum an though no one would be allowed into it, as it could collapse, they can take virtual tours via internet. Just have to make sure there is good security to keep everything safe.
@crazymayne696 жыл бұрын
Interesting vid and all, but are you TRYING to mangle as many word pronunciations as possible?
@Mirandorl6 жыл бұрын
Lutten is a lovely place in London. I believe it was bombed quite heavily by the Luftwoff.
@andreniki88646 жыл бұрын
Exactly xDDD Luafwaff xD
@klaus37945 жыл бұрын
Really a great discovery! :(
@gratefulgal64166 жыл бұрын
Really cool ! Thanks
@TheAttacker7326 жыл бұрын
It's a bomb shelter... I think it's safe to assume that it's structurally sound.
@johnstaf6 жыл бұрын
Making up pronunciations for words you don't know is bad enough, but how can anyone be so ignorant that they never heard of the Luftwaffe?
@AsTheSeasonsGray6 жыл бұрын
I love a good VOE-Hull.
@rich33716 жыл бұрын
It's not the "Luftwaff", it's the Luftwaffe, emphasis on the e at the end (said like u as in tub)