Is it true that there are RAF underground bunkers all spread around UK, what was big.. but anoth to fit like 5 people down, and people can actually go down the bunkers. but you need to slide the opening across... is this true?

if so.
were are the local ones?

The only one I know of was at Harpur Hill near Buxton. It was used for storing bombs during the war but after the war ended it was turned into a mushroom farm.

Are you thinking about RSG's (Regional Seats of Government)? These were prepared in case of nuclear war and were for use by selected government ministers and high ranking civil servants.

There are many old and abandoned cold war bunkers in the UK. The type you seem to be describing are Royal Observer Corps (ROC) bunkers. Plenty of info in the following links although exact locations are not normally given:

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=50

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/

The whole of Norfolk School's playing field (the old Norfolk School), has a huge bunker complex underneath it. There is an entrance still visible near the spring lane tram stop. Pity it has a massive concrete lid on it.
I remember donkeys years ago we went down in to it. Just a mass of tunnels will tiny off-shot rooms.

I would imagine its a ww2 bunker, Highgreen had two large ones. One outside the infant school now a new housing estate and one in the grounds of the secondary school at greengate lane.:thumbsup:

thanks for the info people :D

Had one directly outside our old house back garden , it's still there but full of soil and rubbish .

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/g/goldsborough/index.html

I was in this rotor bunker many years ago, Sadly its flooded now. The house you see on the pic is pretty normal looking i think it was known as a guard house. You go into what looks like a coal celler, this has an entrance into the bunker. Although this was many years ago i can tell you the place was a massive undergrond collection of rooms and tunnel corridors.

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/c/conisbrough/index.html

This is also an intresting place, its not to far from Conisbrough castle. This was a anti aircraft operations room (AAOR)

there is a Cold War ROC bunker on Abbeydale Golf Course, just around the back of the clubhouse car park. It's actually marked on some OS maps for some reason.

there is a Cold War ROC bunker on Abbeydale Golf Course, just around the back of the clubhouse car park. It's actually marked on some OS maps for some reason.

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=31628

This is the one

Is it true that there are RAF underground bunkers all spread around UK, what was big.. but anoth to fit like 5 people down, and people can actually go down the bunkers. but you need to slide the opening across... is this true?

if so.
were are the local ones?

Bawtry was one of the largest as a young Telephone engineer we used to install and maintain the Telex Machiens and the duplicate Exchanges.
There are many sites around South Yorkshire including Sheffield city centre.

Hi Lee, its me simon ;)
I have been to the Holmirth ROC bunker its not locked and easily accessable. The condition is ok but many items are missing. If any one does go please respect it and dot vandelise it. close the hatch afterwards.

Reference to 'underground bunkers' used in WW2 to their subsequent use against the threat of a nuclear war.
In the underground cable chamber of the Sheffield Main Telephone Exchange there was a fully operational, 4 position manual switchboard to be used for communications in the event of a nuclear war. Also beds and dry rations.
There were regular 'observer core exercises' which linked up posts around the country.
A bit 'Dad's Army' but thank goodness they were never needed.

As a youngster i remember what looked like bomb shelters not far from Pitworth road school. There were a couple above ground bunkers and a few underground as i recall, with tunnels running around. Anyone else remember them?
Mike Slater

hi,
Bawtry was one of the largest as a young Telephone engineer we used to install and maintain the Telex Machiens and the duplicate Exchanges.
There are many sites around South Yorkshire including Sheffield city centre.

staffingpower.com

sentersoftech.

Talk of underground bunkers reminds me of wartime when in our garden in Woodhouse we had installed a wooden table, about 12ins square, on a post. It was painted green and was supposed to turn blue in the event of a gas attack. Happily, it was never put to the test. Is this a fanciful childhood memory, or does anyone else remember any such.

hi,
Bawtry was one of the largest as a young Telephone engineer we used to install and maintain the Telex Machiens and the duplicate Exchanges.
There are many sites around South Yorkshire including Sheffield city centre.

staffingpower.com

sentersoftech.

Did you cut and paste my post and if so why, if you have a comment then please voice it.

Thanks

So can u feely go down into a bunker?

anyone get any photos.?

So can u feely go down into a bunker?

anyone get any photos.?

We posted some links on this thread. If you checked them out you will have seen many photos.

ok i will look

We should go simon ;) i would love to see one. i know not much is there tho :(

Hi Lee, its me simon ;)
I have been to the Holmirth ROC bunker its not locked and easily accessable. The condition is ok but many items are missing. If any one does go please respect it and dot vandelise it. close the hatch afterwards.

As a youngster i remember what looked like bomb shelters not far from Pitworth road school. There were a couple above ground bunkers and a few underground as i recall, with tunnels running around. Anyone else remember them?
Mike Slater

Yes i remember them. i used to go to pipworth school and my friends and i used to play in the fields around there all the time and i remember being told they were old air raid shelters

Nice. i so want to go down into one.

Nice. i so want to go down into one.
Pretty sure there is a ROC bunker in Grenoside.Look in Google earth

Hi Dublugee,there was a green painted board in the shape of a bird table on the corner of i think Glebe rd at Crookes,i was told as a six year old to put my gas mask on if it changed colour.I lived in Reservoir rd then.

Thanks, Chrish, for the note about the 'gas boards'. I still have not met anybody who saw one turn blue. Just as well, come to think!

Norton aerodrome has several undergoround bunkers as me and mates found whilst that area been our playground ha ha.There is several underground on there alot are collapsed and full of rubble , but there is 1 that just looks like a banking with trees on top and covered in earth but at each end is the old steel doors and as you walk in its all concrete with 4 or 5 seperate sections, it still there to this day i often walk past it now when walkin my dogs ps norton aerodrome is the old lightwood driving school now closed down but you can access all the area of bowman drive gleadless .

http://redirectingat.com/?id=203X323&url=http%3A//i8.photobucket.com/albums/a31/ross-mob31/Raf%2520Norton%2520April%25202007/lightwood013.jpg


I found these pics on forum of the bunker im talkin about above , hope this helps .

Pretty sure there is a ROC bunker in Grenoside.Look in Google earth

i think that was at the site of the old ammo dump -which is now the crematorium

Reference to 'underground bunkers' used in WW2 to their subsequent use against the threat of a nuclear war.
In the underground cable chamber of the Sheffield Main Telephone Exchange there was a fully operational, 4 position manual switchboard to be used for communications in the event of a nuclear war. Also beds and dry rations.
There were regular 'observer core exercises' which linked up posts around the country.
A bit 'Dad's Army' but thank goodness they were never needed.

It was 8 position - 4 either side of the room. There was a ringing machine on the back wall which was pretty loud and a distraction if you were trying to hear what was being said over the phone when we tested it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Cold_War_Bunker

Not in Sheffield, but the one at York is AMAZING! (did a tour last summer and was very very interesting indeed). They also take you through how we prepared for the possibility of a Big Nuclear War at some stage, and what preparations there are at the moment (I'm going to hide under my desk and put my hands over my ears).

All a bit scary, but well worth a look.

http://redirectingat.com/?id=203X323&url=http%3A//i8.photobucket.com/albums/a31/ross-mob31/Raf%2520Norton%2520April%25202007/lightwood013.jpg


I found these pics on forum of the bunker im talkin about above , hope this helps .

That's one of my piccys which I took a few years ago at the bunker on Lightwood. Fascinating place, quite spooky! Be aware though that if you go onto the land you are actually trespassing. We never got caught tho lol:hihi:

Very interesting, thanks for all this info!

The school at Hatfield House Lane had air raid shelters the whole school went in once
and everybody was searching for them
Them they saw plume of ciggie smoke coming out of one of entances game over

If anyone ever visits Ottawa just outside Ottawa is Carp.
There is a nuclear shelter at Carp called the Diefenbunker (because it was built at the time Diefenbaker was prime minister.
It is now used as a tourist attraction, it is in pristine condition and very interesting.It was to house the key sections of government in case of nuclear war.There is even a vault for the Canadian Gold reserves to be stored.
I think the War rooms that Churchill used are open to the public?

There is rumour of one underneath Town Hall incase of Nuclear War.
But im still not sure, it might be the fact i watched threads a few days ago.

The only one I know of was at Harpur Hill near Buxton. It was used for storing bombs during the war but after the war ended it was turned into a mushroom farm.

Are you thinking about RSG's (Regional Seats of Government)? These were prepared in case of nuclear war and were for use by selected government ministers and high ranking civil servants.

sounds like the service men that used them
kept in the dark and fed on s***

If you want to visit an actual cold war bunker, there is one at a vilage called Holmpton near Withernsea in East Yorkshire/Holderness. On the surface there is the usual Bungalow type building. But once you enter and begin the tour it`s nothing short of astonishing how much gear there is underground.
I used to drive past it for many years and not realise what it was. (I used to have a static van at Withernsea)