Strategically Placed
After some time, Simon and his father stopped digging and began researching. They looked up the home’s plot number and saw that it stood empty before the previous owners built the house. However, Gerald realized it was a strategic location!
More Research
Simon said his dad had thought it was an air-raid shelter. They used Google to find information about the area and learned that it had been built during World War II. The previous owner had known it was there, filling it in when adding the house!