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"Billy Bunker's" walk was well attended today by a Devon solicitor and his wife. What a view!
Nov 2015
Trying to find a nuclear bunker abandoned in 1968 is no easy matter... even though you have found one part of it! National Trust rangers, Jim (NT archaeologist), Howard Kent (ROC volunteer who trained there) and myself tried unsuccessfully to work out the orientation of the bunker and where to dig to find the hatch!
What we are looking for underground! Found on the ground is what Howard thinks is the pipe from the Bomb Power Indicator Baffle Plate (number 3). Howard thinks that the post could possibly have been filled in with earth after it was flattened!
Leading Observer Instructor, Howard (born in 1933), kindly lent me his excellent book:Attack Warning Red, Derek Wood, which covers the work of the ROC and has a lot of details
Map of ROC Group Truro Posts 1953.
O1 Padstow
O2 St Breward
O3 Trebetherick
O4 St Columb
Note that only
N4Tintagel and O3 Trebetherick were sited on the cliffs overlooking the sea in North Cornwall.
Sarah Stevens (ranger for the NT) sits by the newly discovered entrance to the main chamber which has not been opened since 1968. 47 years and 8 months ago! The brickwork leading to the surface was knocked down at the time it was covered over and the bunker filled in with rubble and wire fencing. Its recent rediscovery has been quite a challenge! See the other photos in the album to realise it's already taken a year!
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