Royal Observer Corps: The Secrets of Underground Britain

[bookai69]

Boooooommmmmmmmmmmmm !

[maxi1crawf]

It was a monitoring or protected post, not a bunker!

[stormwell]

Ha! Not all the ROC bunkers were hidden away, the one that used to be in Norwich was sat between a fire station and roundabout on the Outer Ring Road. Shame the owner of the site selfishly demolished it and cleared the site to build a KFC that failed to get permission to build. There was a local group trying to save it to turn it into a Cold War museum, now the bunker only exists on Subterranean Britannia's website.

[GKSMCJO]

this brings back memories...... i was a member of the roc, in wiltshire, it almost felt like a club rather than anything too serious, especially the aircraft recognition competitions.

great video !

[Hanglands]

As Fuzzymedic commented, these bunkers are usually on high ground, thats why you usually find these posts near to 'Trig Points'. It should be remembered too that these bunkers were not designed to withstand a nuclear blast - anyone who has seen a hatchway will be able to tell you that. Sadly many posts are flooded, most badly vandalised too. My dad was on Sawtry post for a number of years. Thats been filled in and is now a base for a mobile phone mast.

[fuzzdmedic]

they were placed on high ground so as to give a good allround view as opposed to keep them away from prying eyes.

[lordofbore]

interesting vid thanks for posting

[DarkAngel182]

Whats kind of silly was these posts relied mostly on standard overhead telecom cables as their primary means of communication, which would have been the first thing knocked out by a nuclear blast.

I've been down a few of these disused posts, very creepy. Hate to be stuck down there should the bombs have dropped. You'd be knackered as soon as the supplies ran out!

[StepmothersTeeth]

I've been in an abandoned one that used to beside our home... until it was filled in and made into a mobile telephone mast :(

[ReadersDigestUK]

Thanks for the comment RAndyVee - the ROC posts were dotted all over the UK and the one we featured in Veryan is owned by the National Trust and is in SE Cornwall.

[RAndyVee]

Very good video ... though the journalist at the start gets it totally wrong about location of ROC posts. I've visited and photograph many ROC posts, and love the fact that whilst they're all basically the same (apart from the mirror image ones), they're all individual too.

[lordofbore]

thats right each post was different !!the post in this video looks really cluttered!!I can never remember our post being that bad!!

[iksproduction]

Been down one of them, to claustrophobic for me lol.

[GPOTOM]

They are all right in short bursts but I wouldn't want to be down one for any great length of time.