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The former AAOR at Mistley in Essex goes up for sale ...
[Posted October 27.]
The former AAOR at Mistley in Essex goes up for sale this week with Edward Symmons & Partners (London) 020 7955 8454. As BAPT and Essex County Council have failed to reach agreement on a mutual way forward for the site, the Trust now feel it is surplus to their requirements and can be sold. The site has planning permisison for use as a museum or for archive storage/data management. The site is NOT available for development and would only be considered for one of the above uses. The Trust hopes to hold an open day soon and details will follow about this shortly.
James Fox (jamesATbunkertrust.org)
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Trecwn Royal Naval Armaments Depot
[Posted October 27.]
The Western Daily Mail (25/10/2003) reports that The Manhattan Loft corporation, pioneers of loft living in the UK and regenerators of inner city London have taken over Trecwn Royal Naval Armaments Depot in a joint venture with property developer Richard Harrington. The surface buildings will be let as industrial units and there are plans to have a sophisticated storage and distribution centre using the 59 underground storage tunnels. The new company is called 'The Valley (Pembrokeshire)Ltd.
Nick Catford (nickATswanley1.freeserve.co.uk
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Cold War bunker yields its secrets (Mill Hill)
[Posted October 26.]
A bunker from which London would have been governed in the event of a nuclear war has been opened up for the *first time*.
See: BBC News
Subbrit visited this site in 2001. See Partingdale Lane (Mill Hill).
Subbrit WebMaster (webmasterATsubbrit.org.uk)
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Friern Barnet Town Hall Civil Defence Headquarters
[Posted October 21.]
An air ventilator used to remove poison gas during the Second World War, a life-size portrait of Churchill and an escape tunnel are just some of the historical treasures buried deep within Friern Barnet Town Hall.
Posted By; Ian Sanders (pillboxesukATyahoo.co.uk)
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Bristol Civil Defence Bunker is demolished.
[Posted October 16.]
Sadly when I visited the Banwell close bunker in BISHOPSWORTH Bristol last night (15/10/03) I was greated by a large area of brand spanking new concrete, much to my dismay.
When will they stop demolishing these items of our heritage?
Jimmy (jimmydreadsAThotmail.com)
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Elstow storage depot: Closure
[Posted October 9.]
Elstow storage depot in Bedford, Bedfordshire finally closed it's gates for the last time to the public and trades on the 2nd October 2003 in readiness for it to be redeveloped as "Elstow Garden Villages".
Elstow storage depot has a history back to the Second World War as an ammunitions factory site and whilst no detailed plans are available of the site's development during the war, it is *said* to have many levels below ground which were capped with concrete many decades ago where narrow guage railway lines just disappear into the ground.
During the 1980's the site was propsed to be developed into a nuclear waste storage facility which was dropped after much local opposition. Much preparation of this brownfield site is going to be needed to make the site ready for the building of houses and other community services.
Paul Young (paul@crossfade.freeserve.co.uk)
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Open days: Mistley (former museum) 2003.
[Posted October 9.]
The Bunker Trust will be holding one or two open days at the former museum at Mistley in Essex during November 2003. Please see the BAPT website (www.bunkertrust.org) for details which will be published during the last week in October. Admission will be free to all wishing to make a visit to the site.
James Fox (james@bunkertrust.org).
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Plans to demolish nuclear bunker...
[Posted October 2.]
Plans to demolish a Grade II listed nuclear bunker in Cambridgeshire, have been criticised by conservationists.
Countryside Properties have put forward a planning application to build houses on the site of the bunker in Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge.
The bunker was built to serve as the centre of government for the east of England if a nuclear war had broken out during the Cold War.
See:
BBC News
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