was a hive of activity. but the thing is, fort southwick, which was our working place, was a very secret communications centre deep — dug deep into tunnels in the cliffs overlooking portsmouth harbour. but to get down into the tunnels, we had to go down 350 steps! we had to sleep in the tunnels, eat in the tunnels, be on duty in the tunnels and, of course, chuckles, when we were coming off shift, we had to come up 350 steps, so it was a good thing we were young and fit. chuckles. the amount of activity