The entrance tunnel is 150 yards long with concrete walls 18 inches thick
| Date | 27 August 2013 | ||
| Location | Troy Wood, Fife | NO 56840 08893; 56.27052°N, 2.69848°W | |
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This Cold War-era underground facility in Fife, Scotland was built in 1951/52 and opened in 1953. The ‘R3 type’ bunker covers 24,000 sq ft on two levels 100 ft below ground and would have accommodated 300 personnel. The bunker was operated by the RAF until 1956. It later served until 1968 as the Regional Seat of Government, manned by the Civil Defence Corps. It was then designated as the Regional Government HQ until its closure in 1993. The base would have become the centre of government for Scotland in the event of a nuclear war. Scotland’s Secret Bunker (Official website)
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Scotland’s Secret Bunker
Scotland’s Secret Bunker
Scotland’s Secret Bunker
Scotland’s Secret Bunker
Scotland’s Secret Bunker
Scotland’s Secret Bunker
Scotland’s Secret Bunker
The surface structure, disguised as a farmhouse, containing the entrance to the bunker’s access tunnel
#3 is pretty cute… 🙂 But #1 is my favorite.
Thanks!
There is a similar museum here – http://www.hackgreen.co.uk/.. I find the unsophisticated technology somewhat alarming given our existence depended on it. Interesting post – thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the link. That is interesting to know that there is one there too.
Very disturbing! I find the photo of the passageway much more unnerving than a mine adit…and the underground control room scenes have all the elements of a tongue-in-cheek Bond movie…except that they are for real. One can imagine the bumbling attempts by the assembled top brass to cope with an all-out nuclear strike… I love the “disguised as a farmhouse” entrance…priceless.
Yes, it is quite a sobering thought that the three hundred or so folks entombed behind the three-ton blast doors at the end of that tunnel would have been trying to run what would have been left of the country.
I always found it strange that the only people left after any kind of nuclear war would be civil servants and politicians, probably not most peoples choice of who they would want to survive! Still, I guess someone needed to tidy up whatever was left………
The B-Ark from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comes to mind 😉 (Although that was all the middlemen)