Thread: Fort Bribie Ruins

Well this is a topic that I love researching.

This guy is the one to talk to about this stuff. I spoke to him once about 5 years ago when I was doing something on it. I notice he has moved since I spoke to him. He is at Griffith now.

Indicator Loop Stations around the world
Fort Bribie: Bribie & Moreton Bay Defences, Australia

Fort Bribie: Underground Hospital

There is plenty of WW2 stuff to look at in Brisbane but I don't know of any real secret stuff.
Looking through the site you posted and Indicator Loops are my favourite sites for this stuff.

The hospital has never been found but he has lots of verbal evidence that it did once. Would be very cool to find it!
Makes you wonder what else is about. Underground bunkers around the country. I wonder what is under Archerfield Airport (think this is referred to in a website somewhere) or even UQ Gatton?

His website background is hurting my eyes though.

That's definitely worth a day trip. Thanks for those links utemad.

A guy has contacted me claiming to have been inside the secret part of the hospital. no mention of jeeps and medical supplies though! Doesn't really compute all the goodies still there. A lot of those diggers were young and I can't really see much of it staying in there if the army abandoned it.

It's all pretty interesting the rumour and conspiracy stuff about what's there and not.... Bundaberg airport apparently has some treasure beneath it. There's a lake at archerfield aerodrome they drained and dragged a whole lot of junk out of that included some dissarmed machine guns and bits of aeroplanes. Not the COMPLETE Wirraways and spitfires they had hoped.... The cops confiscated the guns pretty soon after they surfaced and a lot of the bits of aeroplanes are still rusting away in th grass out there.

Funny thing though is there really is a lot of buried war surplus out there, problem is most of it is stuff like Chemical warfare and old munitions.... Not really the romantic stuff. The aircraft they dumped into Moreton bay have never been seen again..... and the giant cahes of trucks and guns and mothballed fighter planes haven't materialized....

I'm really fascinated by all this stuff...

Ian.

Underground bunkers around the country.

We have one in our backyard! Had out BBQ sitting on top of it for years without knowing what it was (thought it was just a concrete slab), then decided one day we would dig the slab up and lay turf - lo and behold we discovered it was an old WW2 bunker/bomb shelter!

So we've left it there with the intention of one day turning it into a wine cellar.
Our neighbours also found one when they were digging up their yard for a pool. There's probably alot of houses with them in the older Brisbane suburbs.

In regards to that lake at Archerfield, it isn't much of a lake. It is more of a big hole with a natural spring or some such under it. They used to irrigate the field (soccer field?) next door from it.

It is quite close to my place.

I've gone in and had a look around and there are still concrete bunker bits visible in there (above water level) but it isn't much to look at.

Hey Mojo that is a pretty cool find.

I am going to go out and find the bunkers out at Laidley/Lockyer area. Dad has a place out there. I also went to uni at UQ Gatton and it is pretty cool that they can still land Caribou aircraft on campus thanks to the fact the US used it as a WW2 army hospital. Although it was pretty annoying when they did. Talk about LOUD!

my grandmothers old place in great george street paddington has a bunker in the back yard, bloody thing drove us nuts when we were young as we were always having to put more soil in the hole as it was subsiding..

granddad was a telegraphist with mcauthur during the war .....

if you notice a lot of the old cement bus shelters around Brissy are Ex Bomb shelters. They built them so they couild knowck the walls down and use them as the shelters.

I grew up in darwin where there are huge amounts of war ruins etc. They have opened up the Oil Storage tanks under Stokes Hill. Worth a visit if you go up there, really huge, long and they never worked!

We used to go visit a catalina Flying boat wreck in the harbour, damaged by repeated cyclones but it was eerie back in the 70's!

yep I remember reading about those bomb shelters. In fact I was looking at one on the weekend.

I love looking at this stuff but problem is when I go look it is usually a side trip and it bores my wife to tears.

I want to go look at the Beautiful Betsy in Kroombit Tops but although I've driven past the park numerous times I've never had the time to stop and look.

An excellent place to look at old war structures is in Devonport, Auckland, NZ. Unlike here most of their stuff is open to the public. Even the unsafe and unlit underground rooms etc.

Possibly on this site somewhere
War and Society | NZHistory.net.nz, New Zealand history online