Homeowner stunned when hole in his driveway reveals a WW2 air raid shelter

Since Saturday Simon and his father Gerald, 67, have been excavating the shelter with buckets.

They’re around half way down and have filled Simon’s front garden with all the mud.

Simon said: “Since Saturday it’s been a case of dig, dig dig. We’re about 5ft down at the moment so it’s just another 5ft to go until it’s finished.

“I think we’re going to have to get a skip in because there’s so much rubbish to get rid of.

“One of the walls has been bricked up. I’m 90 per cent sure we won’t find out any more rooms but we don’t know.

“They might have bricked up one of the walls when the house was built to make way for the foundations. If that’s the case we’ll just have to leave it.”Play Video

A secret fire station – untouched for over 60 years – was pictured for the first time after it was discovered in the cellar of a factory earlier this month.

Remarkable photos show uniforms hanging on walls and equipment littering the floors of the previously hidden space at a West Midlands shopfitting firm.