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During its Cold War operational period, the building could have supported 60 local volunteer members of the Royal Observer Corps, [3] inclusive of a ten-man United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation scientific warning team. They would have collated details of nuclear bombs exploded within the UK and tracked radioactive fallout across ...
A photograph of an AWDREY display unit taken in situ at the York Cold War Bunker. Atomic Weapons Detection Recognition and Estimation of Yield known by the acronym AWDREY was a desk-mounted automatic detection instrument, located at 12 of the 25 Royal Observer Corps (ROC) controls, across the United Kingdom, during the Cold War. The instruments ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... York Cold War Bunker This page was last edited on 8 July 2024, at 05:22 (UTC). Text ...
The site of the ROC post near Streatley, Berkshire. The site of the ROC post near Ruskington, Lincolnshire. Royal Observer Corps monitoring posts are underground structures all over the United Kingdom, constructed as a result of the Royal Observer Corps' nuclear reporting role and operated by volunteers during the Cold War between 1955 and 1991.
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The first were constructed in the late 1950s, and Brandsby was one of the last to be completed, in June 1964. It was part of a group of posts, with the headquarters at York Cold War Bunker. They were to be used in the event of a nuclear attack on the United Kingdom. Half the posts were closed in 1968, and the remainder, including Brandsby, in 1991.
York Cold War Bunker This page was last edited on 10 December 2021, at 13:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
A bunker had been built here during the Second World War to house the Aspidistra transmitter, broadcasting to occupied Europe. Region 7 (South West) The Bolt Head/Hope Cove RSG/SRC and a new bunker to replace Ullenwood (which was too small) at Chilmark near Salisbury (another bunker at Chilmark was used by the RAF to store nuclear warheads).