Unearthed WW2 bunker set to be open to the public

The Festung Guernsey group aims to open the bunker to the public in the next few months

A World War II bunker that had been hidden since the end of the Nazi occupation of Guernsey has been unearthed again.

The type 631 B bunker at L'Ancresse, is one of several along the coastline which was installed to monitor the beach.

It has five rooms which, almost 80 years later, are still dry and intact with German instructions on the walls.

The Festung Guernsey group, which restores the island's German fortifications, plan to have it open to the public in the next few months.

German stencilling is still visible on the walls of the bunker

The bunker consists of five rooms, which formed an anti-tank fortification on the east side of L'Ancresse Beach.

It’s paired with a similar bunker on the other side of the beach that was placed there to protect against a tank invasion.

Most of the materials used to construct the bunker were reused from Czech fortifications taken from 1938 and 1939.

Paul Bourgaize, chairman of Festung Guernsey, said the bunker was "very well preserved.

"The interior is quite free from graffiti, it's got some nice original stencilling on the walls, there a lot of pipework still in place" he said.

"So a very good starting point for a restoration project".