My friends and I have spent many an evening down there but never seem to be able to find this “Sarah C” a local girl of easy virtue, or so the grafitti seems to allude!

Back at the end of the nineties extensive drainage systems were dug on Weald Common to alleviate flodding in the Thorn Hill estate. This seems to have allowed most of the water to sink into the previously saturated water table surrounding it. The Brambles are starting to lay claim to the site more than anything now.

To be fair, there is some very good grafitti down there is a shame the local artists did not have a bit more appriciation for the site and perhaps would have found somewhere else for their doubings.

Most of the concrete is in good condition and thanks to the low value on scrap steel and the relative absence of any bulk quantities of copper on site, it has managed to avoid the ravages of any material reclaimers.

If you do go into the long tunnels, be careful, there is an open drain in the right hand one as you look at them from the “crescent forecourt” in front of the ammunition stores. Your only fall 24″ but you’ll make a mess of your shins too!

I bet no one can find the magic mushroom patch either!

- Sam (Denzien of North Weald)