Part 2: GOING UNDERGROUND AT Battery HEARN

 

Back at the Main Entrance, we will  go in here.

 

Inside the first entrance  is a secondary entrance
 

Looking back out the secondary entrance. The curved exhaust pipe at the top comes from the Power Room.
 

Walking further into the tunnel will soon bring you to a “Y” intersection. Turn left towards the Rear Entrance. This is the view along that tunnel.

Up ahead is the collapsed section where you can go no further. To the left is a small room but I have no idea what it was used for.
 

That room would be the Transformer Room (advises Armyjunk), 

Closer to the collapsed section you will notice dirt sliding down from the right and a hole up through the tunnel ceiling.
 

Looking up through the hole you can actually see sunlight. The crater we looked down earlier is directly above me.
 

Back at the “Y” intersection we will turn left. Note the metal on the floor.

This is a sliding door from one of the rooms.

Many of the rooms inside Battery Hearn show evidence of intense fires. Walls are scorched and any wood that remains nailed to them is now charcoal.

First on the right is the Power Room. Rectangular concrete pedestals are on the floor and some of the exhaust pipes and pipe hangers still exist. In a far corner is the large air vent up to the surface with the metal ladder up one side of it.

Looking in the Power Room doorway.

The big air vent with the ladder is in this corner

The view straight up the air vent.

Looking towards the Power Room door.

I do not know what this room was used for as all painted lettering above the doorway is gone. You can clearly see it had a sliding door.

The front part of this room is heavily damaged but I think there may have been Comms stations (i.e. phone booths) here.

Nearby Battery Smith has a similar set-up that is still intact so that is where this opinion comes from. Judging by the position of the air shafts, on top of the hill a big crater would be almost exactly over this location. I wonder if concussion from the blast is what caused much of this damage. The black square at the rear is the horizontal section of an air shaft.

Conduits with wires sticking out of them.

 

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