Author Archives: Hugh Golding

Underground Britain

The Secrets of Underground Britain

How Differential Steering Works

Around The Corner (1937) How Differential Steering Works

When old school is just better at explaining things.

My Landy – In Car Comms and Power

Wiring the radio and computer in to my Landy.

WiFi and GPS POD mounted on roof of Landy.

Touch screen and Icom 2820 head mounted in Landy.

Previous screen & radio mounts in the Landy

The Secrets Of Cornwall

The Secrets Of Cornwall – Communications

Crazy Places

http://www.crazy-places.com

Some really good videos here of abandoned military bases, silos and bunkers. I make an appearance in one of the videos on a trip to Berlin.

SMBT Fenny Stratford Exchange / Bletchley (MK) – bRAS

Took a trip out to investigate our local bRAS building.

BT Wholesale has ten 20/21CN bRAS which are located at Birmingham, Bletchley (MK), Ealing, Edinburgh, Ilford, Kingston, Manchester, Reading, Sheffield, Faraday. If your ISP uses BT Wholesale for routing then you can be sure that all your traffic will have passed through one of the above bRAS locations.

There are a large number of network companies present at this site as indicated by the network chamber covers outside in the street.

My Mapped BT Exchanges ( work in progress )

My Mapped Eire Telecom Exchanges ( work in progress )

Submarine Cables & Landing Stations

The physical connectivity of the Internet is of great fascination to me. From Submarine Cables and Cable Landing Stations to fibre ducts running up and down the country between Exchanges and POPs.

SMBA Bradwell Abbey Exchange – Milton Keynes

Took a trip out to investigate our local exchange building.

Crazy Tours – Berlin – February 2016

In February 2016 I went on a Crazy Places Tour of Cold War bunkers and buildings around Berlin including Teufelsberg and the U-Boat Command Bunker.

Crazy Places is a creation from our boss Rob Hammond who has an unhealthy obsession of the Cold War era. Crazy Tours is an off shoot from our main company.

Teufelsberg in Grunewald was an American listening station built during the Cold War. It sits on a man-made hill, created in the 20 years following the Second World War of debris from Berlin. The US National Security Agency (NSA) built it operated from here and is rumoured to be part of the global ECHELON intelligence gathering network.