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The volunteers at Drakelow Tunnels Museum provides visitors with a background to the history of the site and has exhibits showing what the site was used for in its various uses during the 1940s - 1990s. The museum offers guided tours where bookings can be made online via eventbrite. Drakelow Tunnels Museum
Just outside Kinver are Drakelow Tunnels. The tunnels were used for various purposes by the MoD for many years. The tunnels were originally built as a Second World War shadow factory for the Rover car company and were used to manufacture aircraft engine components for the company's main supply factory in Birmingham and its shadow factories at ...
A handful – Drakelow Tunnels, Kelvedon Hatch, Hack Green, Dover and Anstruther – became museums. The Region 6 War Room survives to this day, having been Grade II listed in 2009. It is currently under the administration of the University of Reading, which utilises the building as a secure storage facility for the university library.
Also during World War II, the Drakelow Tunnels near Kidderminster were designed and constructed. In 1949, Cliff Quay Power Station in Suffolk was designed. In 1954, the firm completed the Owen Falls Dam in Uganda. [6]
The mission left in 1898 but the building remained in used for occasional chapel and church purposes until the 1920s when the Hall and Estate were sold to the Grazebrook family. During the Second World War, the village site became part of the Drakelow Tunnels shadow factory, later developed during the Cold War as a fall-back government centre. [3]
Pages in category "Military history of Staffordshire" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Drakelow Tunnels; F. RAF Fauld explosion; S.
A coal train for Drakelow Power Station. A technologically advanced coal-fired power station was commissioned in 1955 at Drakelow, in the grounds of the former Drakelow Hall, not far from Burton. The site was much extended, and the location adjacent to the Leicester to Burton line enabled the delivery of large volumes of coal by rail, and ...
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