I'm with BEagle, I hoped for much more from this programme but it was very bitty, poorly edited and badly produced, in my view. I suspect because they were trying to get too much out of it (3 strands running throughout) and there is probably more on the cutting room floor than managed to make the 1 hr 35 mins cut.
As for the Lt Col Royal Engineers!
The Lt Col i/c the new shaft project surprised me. To his great surprise the sand at 8m/30ft deep kept collapsing, so they finally decided that it was too risky to attempt to tunnel into the wartime tunnel both because of the risks to the modern-day tunnelers and also because they'd destroy the old tunnels in the process of trying to break into them.
What did he say to the local and somewhat submissive archaeologist?
I'll take that as a yes!
Ah yes, I remember the staff college 'line' at Camberley - nobody in the Army ever disagrees with a senior officer! (thank God I'm air force!)
Well he got that wrong and suitably shafted (not)!
Didn't surprise me, airborne_artist, man seemed a prick from the outset!
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