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Royal Observer Corps Post.
Photo: Eric Turner
Photo: Eric Turner
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Item #: 7086
Item #: 7086
This is all that can be seen above ground of a R.O.C.post.Down the manhole is a 20 rung steel ladder, at the bottom there are 2 doors, one to a chemical toilet and the other to the monitoring room.This was a concrete bunker,15 feet long,7 feet wide & 7 feet high,equipped with instruments for recording a Nuclear Strike. My post was of Breeze Hill Road, Atherton. It was part of United Kingdom Warning & Monitoring Organisation in case of a Nuclear War.We were stood down in Sept.1991.when over 800 of these posts were still operational. Other interior photo's to follow.
Comment by: Eric Turner on 29th August 2008 at 21:00
I have uploaded two interior photo's today,29thAug,08. If Brian can place them alongside this one,I do have others. These ROC posts all belong to the Cold War Era, there was 1600 of them before 1968, Defence cuts made 50% redundant, before then you were never much more than 5 miles from a post throughout the U.K.
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