This vast complex is situated at Meadowbank,
St. Lawrence. Under normal circumstances it
could be said that it is a fantastic feat of
engineering, an  amazing construction hewn
from solid rock, 50,000 tons to be precise.
The construction is fully air conditioned and
centrally heated.
The labyrinth of completed corridors and
chambers is almost one kilometre.
When you enter, the vastness of it all is quite
astounding.

This is no ordinary civil engineering project,
it may have been designed by German engineers,
but it was created by thousands of slave labourers.
Spanish Republicans, North Africans, Jews, Poles,
French, Russian prisoners of war captured on the
Russian front and marched across Europe to
become slaves toiling long hours with meagre      rations .
Many were killed through rock falls and just
buried within the tunnels.
Many Jersey people tried to help these poor  souls
at the risk of deportation themselves.

Originally the construction was meant for an
artillery depot, but was changed to a military
hospital , in readiness for the expected invasion
of Jersey

Much of the Hospital layout has been re-created
to show how it was at the end of the war.
Some of the chambers are now living museums
with displays showing life under occupation.

There are  collections of photographs, documents,
and memorabilia, all of which leave the visitor
in a somewhat sombre mood, trying to imagine
what it must have been like for everyone involved
in this period of Jersey history.

If you visit the Underground Hospital you will
experience something quite unique and it will
stay with you for quite sometime.