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The underground Cold War sites on your doorstep...
« Thread Started on Oct 28, 2012, 9:34am »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-20070903

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-20093467

Interesting article on the old Royal Observer Corp underground bunkers that were dotted around the UK.

They were to be manned in time of crisis and in the event of a nuclear strike on the UK they would be there to moniter fall out patterns and so on.

An interesting slice of British cold-war history. Had a good friend who was part of this set up and they were a solid bunch of people who were, in the main, sort of volunteers.

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« Reply #1 on Oct 29, 2012, 6:14pm »

It would be cool to have a map of all the old bunkers and silos all over the country/ world.

These are the ones I'm closest to (that I know of, at least!) http://www.cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/dover/
The Cold War areas are not yet open to the public though.

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