Sign Of The Times

Tom from Tomodo has sent me these pics of some of the new road signs and the new road looking south from Hazel Grove.

Excellent photo's Tom good work!

Just a word of warning to everyone the weather is set to get worse through the week with some (possibly heavy) snow due by the end of the week so drive carefully please everyone and stay safe.

Keep on diggin............

Nutcombe Sunday Morning

Red Robbo has been out and about again taking fantastic photo's in the process. These are of Nutcombe down showing the scaffolding around Miss James footbridge. Also of the new slip road we will use to get on the new A3 to travel through the tunnel heading northbound.

Also as you may have seen, for those of you that have been southbound down the A3 recently the new road between Hazel Grove and Liphook is now nearing completion and traffic is due to be moved over sometime in the next couple of weeks if not sooner. Just be aware though that there are average speed cameras all the way down there so lets be sensible with our speed folks, not just because of them, but also during these cold months when the weather is not that great!

Keep your photo's coming guys.

Keep on diggin.............

The Nostalgia Bug Must Be Catching!

Red Robbo has caught the nostalgia bug as well as he has sent me these fantastic archive photo's of Boundless Road area and also of Nutcombe Downs area.

Really gives you a perspective of how things have changed - excellent photo's Robbo well done!

Keep on diggin...........

Haslemere Herald

Hi guys and gals

Just to let you know the tunnel is featured on the front page of the Haslemere Herald this week.

There is also a little bit about the blog. I must say thank you to Daniel Gee at the Herald for including a bit about this blog.

Keep on diggin........

Feeling Nostalgic

I was feeling a little nostalgic today so thought I would find some photo's showing life before the tunnel project was started. The top one is a photo of the Hindhead crossroads which was taken in 1958! Lets hope Hindhead is this as quiet as this once the tunnel is opened!

The second is of the the Northern end just after they had started to clear the trees and prepare the access roads. I could not find one of before that unfortunately.

The bottom one is of the Southern end before any tress had been cleared or any prep work done.

As you can see things have dramatically changed over the last 2 years!!!!!

Keep on diggin..........

Follow the new built road

I was lucky enough to actually have been driven to Bordon a couple of days ago so I took the chance to take some pics from Hazel Grove roundabout down to the Spaniard.

I managed to get some good shots, my favourite being the 1st one looking down to the Southern Tunnel entrances through the fog.

Since I took these 2 days ago they have stared to paint the new white lines on the road. I don't think it'll be long before we get the excitement of driving down it!!!!

Keep on diggin..........

Freezing cold walk to the Northern End

I went for a walk up to the Northern Portal this afternoon and my goodness was it cold! I'm sure I saw a brass monkey looking for a welder!

Things are coming on nicely. They are nearing completion of the north bound tunnel entrance and the new road is really taking shape and you can see quiet clearly the route it is going to be taking.

A word of warning though - if you are going down to have a look be really really careful walking down the hill. It is very muddy and very slippery - I nearly fell over about 10 times, one time headbutting a tree!!!!!

More pics to come soon of the new road from Hazel Grove down to the Spaniard.

Keep on diggin................

I'm on the news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For those of you that never got to watch it or just want to see it here is the link to the video of my appearance on BBC South Today talking about the tunnel and the blog.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8393977.stm

Clicking on the link will take you directly to the video while I await permission from the BBC to upload the video directly

Just so you know it's not all glitz and galmour for me seconds after we filmed that yesterday it chucked it down with rain and I got soaked! all for the love of bringing this to you guys!

Keep on diggin...........

BBC South Today Tomorrow

The blog and the tunnel is going to be featured again on BBC South Today tomorrow. We did some filming down at the Southern Viewing Platform and also at home. I must say it was a privilege to meet Paul Clifton again also I must say thank you to Paul Martin, the cameraman (media-attention.co.uk well worth a look), who made me look good - granted a difficult job but he earned his money! The item will be on the breakfast, lunchtime and early evening news programmes. I will post a link on here once it has aired sometime tomorrow evening.

There is massive change down there now with lots of scaffolding being put up around Miss James footbridge and the new road from Hazel grove down passed the Spaniard is really coming along with the new road signs being put up and the new fencing going up quickly as well.

More pictures to come soon.

Keep on diggin..........

Old but classic

I was sent this by one of the nice guys at Balfours. It is a great picture of Betsy at work in the tunnel on breakthrough day. Can't believe that was nearly a year ago already!

More pictures soon to come of Hazel Grove and the advancements of Miss James footbridge.

Keep on diggin..............