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#1 mab01uk

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Posted 06 October 2016 - 09:41 PM

Anyone been on a visit to this Nuclear Bunker?

Looks like it could be an unusual and interesting visit......

http://www.secretnuc...r.com/index.php

 

 

"Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker, the largest and deepest cold war bunker open to the public in South East England.
Hidden in a wood off the A128 Ongar (now well sign-posted for the tourist trade), Brentwood Road, is a small bungalow well built which hides a three floored bunker complex 125 feet (38 m) underground, a long corridor leads down to a place in which 600 people would have been confined behind blast proof doors in the event of a nuclear war.
The bunker was originally built in 1952/3 by the construction firm Peter Lind & Company Ltd, as part of ROTOR, an urgent government building programme to improve Britain's air defence network and became the Sector Operations Command for the RAF Fighter Command with responsibility for the London Sector.
It subsequently became adopted as a potential 'regional government bunker' as the threat of nuclear war grew in the 1960s. The bunker was sold in the 1990s and is now a tourist attraction and film location.The bunker is currently owned and operated by the family who originally owned the land before the military moved in. It has a many historical items remaining intact including a BBC studio.
A souvenir shop in the original canteen sells items, including government literature produced for the public in the early 1980s.
The Owner Mike Parrish shows you around in this video tour."

 



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Posted 16 October 2016 - 09:47 PM

Near me but I always have a good laugh when I see the sign advertising a secret lol

#3 Cooperman

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Posted 17 October 2016 - 10:15 AM

If Trump becomes President and starts rattling Putin's cage over Syria I reckon it might be needed sometime soon!

The lunatics will be running the asylum.



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Posted 20 October 2016 - 08:17 PM

I've been there, it's a decent place to visit, you won't believe the size of it and the fact nobody knew about it until the signs went up etc

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