Mum discovers enormous underground tunnel in her backyard after lifting paving slab

A mum was left gobsmacked after discovering an enormous underground World War 2 bunker in her backyard when she lifted a paving slab.

Rebecca Hobson, 34, discovered the massive tunnel hidden below a slab along with her accomplice Darren, 34, after neighbours hinted there could be ‘one thing within the backyard’ from the Second World War period.

Feeling bored throughout lockdown, the pair determined to discover their again backyard to see if the rumours have been true. To their shock, they discovered the doorway to a 1m-wide tunnel. Incredible footage exhibits steps main down into the shelter, revealing a ‘damp’ passageway.

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Rebecca, who moved into the three-bedroom terrace home 15 years in the past, stated they found the distinctive construction through the pandemic in 2020 however solely began digging it out final 12 months.

After deciding to share images and movies of the air raid shelter on TikTookay earlier this month, their posts have gone viral, leaving customers amazed by their suspected WW2-era discovery.

The video exhibits the passage persevering with for about 50 metres to a lifeless finish, the place the constructing administrator says one other entrance as soon as existed. The mum-of-two revealed that after they uncovered the shelter, they discovered an outdated toy gun and many ‘rusty’ bottles and bowls inside.

Rebecca stated at current she would not know which struggle the shelter was utilized in and remains to be making an attempt to dig up the historical past on the wartime website. Newspaper cuttings reveal the shelter was constructed by volunteers through the Second World War to carry 200 ladies and kids through the bombings and defend them from ‘the cruelties of Hitlerism’.

Rebecca, from a village close to Folkestone, Kent, stated: “When we moved into the house we had no idea about the air raid shelter being in our garden.”

“A few years later some of the locals said there might be something in the garden [from the war]. We found it under a big slab in the garden and originally uncovered it in lockdown.”

“People told us about there being something in our garden but we didn’t want to do anything with it. It was only when we were in lockdown and we were bored that we decided to look into it. We’re still trying to dig into the history of it, but it’s still really interesting.”

“Our row of houses were built in the seventies and so we are assuming that the earth they dug out for the foundations [for these houses], covered up the tunnel. All we know about the shelter at the moment is what we have been able to find out from some newspaper clippings.”

“The shelter was built for all the mothers and children in the village to use. When we opened the shelter for the first time we found a toy gun in there and lots of rat traps and rusty bottles and bowls.”

Since discovering the wartime shelter, the couple stated they’ve cleaned out the passageway and added lights to it however do not wish to alter the constructing anymore as they wish to keep its historical past.

Rebecca stated her youngsters have been very excited to go inside wartime shelter and has since requested the native faculties in the event that they wish to come and go to.

Rebecca stated: “We thought it was going to be really small [when we first discovered it] but it was amazing and we were so shocked by the size of it. We thought it was going to be big enough to just fit a handful of people in but it is supposed to be able to fit 200 people in it.”

“When you go into it, you go down about five or six steps. It’s very cold and damp and it’s then just a brick tunnel. The tunnel did lead to the end of the road to the edge of my neighbours garden but they were worried that they might get rats so they blocked their side up so you can only get in from our garden now.”

Rebecca stated: “We’ve swept it all out as it was really mucky inside and we’ve added some lights inside so people can see inside. I feel very privileged that we have this bit of history in our garden.”