{"id":411,"date":"2024-11-30T13:07:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T13:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/powderblue-eland-339314.hostingersite.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2024-11-30T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T13:07:09","slug":"homeowner-stunned-when-hole-in-his-driveway-reveals-a-ww2-air-raid-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Homeowner stunned when hole in his driveway reveals a WW2 air raid shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A MAN investigating a hole in his driveway was stunned to find his home was built over a World War II air raid shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simon Marks thought he has driven on to a flowerbed when the wheel of his car had caved in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2053609\/homeowner-stunned-when-hole-in-his-driveway-opens-up-to-reveal-a-ww2-air-raid-shelter\/#\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nintchdbpict000277646085.jpg\" alt=\" Simon Marks with the entrance to the air raid shelter in his driveway\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But on closer inspection he found that part of the driveway of his \u00a3400,000 house was covering a two-roomed shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 37-year-old computer support worker said: \u201cThis massive hole appeared. I thought it was a sinkhole or a badly constructed garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was just terrified the whole house was going to vanish. I took some pictures and sent them to my dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy dad saw it and instantly said it\u2019s an air raid shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe googled it and found there are quite a few in this area. It is made from concrete lintels and is in immaculate condition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simon, from Luton, Beds., thinks the shelter may have been built after a German bomb landed close to the house in the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He found it on Saturday afternoon and thinks it is 10ft deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The house was bought from an elderly couple, who built it in the 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simon said: \u201cThe previous owner must have known it was there and when he built the house and put a garden in he must have filled it in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe clearly wasn\u2019t very worried about it and it just sat there until the hatch fell through. I think it\u2019s great and I want to clear it out and preserve it if it\u2019s structurally sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s incredible to think it has all been made by hand. It\u2019s part of our history so it should be kept.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MAN investigating a hole in his driveway was stunned to find his home was built over a World War II air raid shelter. Simon Marks thought&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intersting7hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}