On this page I will put pictures etc that don't really fit into any of the other pages.

The following pictures were sent to me a friend who lives in Barbados

They are guns designed by Dr Gerald Bull who used them for his HARP project.  He also worked on the Iraqi Supergun before he was assassinated.  If anyone has any more info then please mail me.  ST4@Hotmail.com

The pictures below were taken in Grays in Essex.  Anyone know anything about them?

Following an appeal on the uk.rec.subterranea news group I received the following information form Chris Lonsbrough to who I am indebted.  

" I managed to speak with the Curator of the Local History Museum in Grays and he knew this tunnel well.  It is the "Titan Tramway" and it connected the "Titan Pit", which was a large quarry behind the Town, to the town wharf on the riverside.  The town of Grays was originally much smaller and centred on the area between the railway and the river and this tunnel was built under the then town centre (roughly where the Council Offices are now) to provide a direct connection to the riverside for the quarry products, so avoiding a constant and messy traffic of quarry carts through the streets of the town centre.  At one time the tunnel had tramlines with trains of quarry trucks pulled by ponies and this tramway system was quite extensive -tramlines still turn up in roadworks in what is now the town centre.  He thought that the tunnel was built early in the nineteenth century
and was probably put out of use by the arrival of the railway in the 1850's, the section underneath the track bed being in filled and the quarry traffic passing from river barges to the railway.  It would seem that you broke through into the tunnel near to the southern portal which was at the other side of the road outside the Council Offices (New Road) where a remnant of the cutting can still be seen.  The northern portal was underneath the shopping centre, with the tramway continuing up the street that is still known as "Titan Road".  As the centre of Grays has been substantially reconstructed, first in the 1930's and again in the 1970's, he did not know if any portions of the tunnel still remained and was most interested to learn that a section, at least, is still extant beneath the Council Offices!

Regards,

Chris Lonsbrough"

Thanks for that Chris, most interesting.