Finding WW2 Heritage in Totton & Ashurst, New Forest

I was looking into going to that one at the end there sometime this week. The first one you showed I know the tunnel so I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled next time I’m out that way

That's really cool. Thanks for sharing

I had a feeling David Harrison might get a mention in this video 👍

I know of some old air raid shelters that are up near Laundry Rd near Maybush in Southampton this is fairly close to where I was born , I am not sure but I believe there could still be quite a few original concrete anti Tank square--ish / tank traps also in an open park / common area. Rob.

Brilliant video, thank you. We still have a concrete half-buried Anderson in our back garden in Totton. Blast wall still intact, as are the wooden steps and staging inside. Most neighbours seem to have had them removed, but we love ours.

I really enjoyed this video great work

Really enjoyed this video, the first shelter you visited at Ashurst Bridge was very close to where I grew up and I remember my dad showing it to me. I also wasn’t aware that the green one was a shelter, I thought it was some sort of gas or electricity mains. I know this video is quite old now, but there’s a stand-alone concrete shelter (not dissimilar to the first one in this video) in the woodland off the A35 near Rushington Business Park at about 50°54'20"N 1°29'57"W. The woods were a regular haunt growing up and it was there and in good condition when I was a teenager (about a decade ago). Unfortunately I suspect it’s on private land (from memory there was a few fences you had to scramble over) and a quick look on street view shows the woodlands to be quite overgrown, but thought I’d let you know. Probably wouldn’t recommend trying to access it these days (I’m not even sure how to enter the woods today - we always got in through the adjacent field that backed onto a mates garden) but might be useful if you’re compiling any sort of map or database on the subject. As an aside, there’s also a basic small concrete one (with blast wall intact) in a very neat and rustic looking front garden on Kneelers Lane near Langley Manor cricket ground (about 5 minutes in the opposite direction) from the underpass at which you start the video.

Love this area. I drive train past these locations an often wondered what eas beside the line or if servicemen used the station. I have a competiton with a fellow driver to spot the anti tank traps along the route

Ashurst looks quite complete, which side of the line is it?

Deluxe shelter with a loo

Lots of Railway bridges on the Bournemouth line have pill boxes built in.

Nice the names live on