Our first trip for this term was to the archives and to the war tunnels.

ALL MY IMAGES FROM THE WAR TUNNELS VISIT

Below is a map of the Current Jersey War Tunnels. There is over 1000 meters of artefacts and history in every room its also dug 50 meters underground and more than 5000 slave labours worked on constructing this tunnel. This network of underground tunnels was designed to allow the German occupying infantry to withstand Allied air raids and bombardment in the event of an invasion. In 1943, it was converted into an emergency hospital.

After I uploaded the images I decided to go through the selection process of flagging them and numbering them from 1 to 5 stars and then using 2 colours I condensed them down to 5-10 images using Lightroom .

The Jersey war Tunnels is product of five long years of occupation; they bore witness to the particular cruelty of the Nazi regime.

There are rooms that show us what clothes people wore, what the inside of peoples houses would have looked like, armed authority figures, dates and key facts, weapons, films, a sound effect room which shows us what the bombing would have sounded like from inside the bunkers and lots more. Having been to the war tunnels previously before I wasn’t shocked by what I saw but what still intrigued me is that parts of the war tunnels are still being dug up, tunnels that had previously been built by the Nazis are still undiscovered and will remain that way for quite a while.