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2004	Previous site Additions & Updates:
Dec 18	Updated: RAF Ventnor R1 CEW Rotor Radar Station - Completely rewritten with new pictures added
Nov 7	Updated: Horsham ROC Group HQ - Pictures of demolition added
Nov 5	New: Kingsclere - Seismic Monitoring Station
Nov 3	New: RAF Gailes ('FUL') R8 GCI ROTOR Radar Station
Oct 26	Updated: RAF Prestatyn ('SYP') CHEL R11 ROTOR Radar Station VHF/UHF transmitter & receiver blocks added.
Oct 24	New: RAF Trewan Sands ('TES') R8 GCI ROTOR Radar Station
Oct 16	New: RAF Wartling ('ZUN') R3 GCI ROTOR Radar Station
Oct 16	New: RAF Wartling R7 ROTOR Radar Bunker
Oct 16	New: RAF Wartling - ROTOR VHF/UHF transmitter and receiver blocks
Aug 28	Updated: RAF Kilchiaran - R11 CHEL Rotor Radar Station
July 29	Updated: RAF Saxa Vord - R10 CEW Rotor Radar Station
July 22	Updated: Lyndon Green - BT PR1 Repeater Station (new visit report)
July 11	New: Schoolhill - UKWMO Caledonian Sector Control
July 6	New: RAF Buchan R7 Mk. III Rotor Radar Bunker
July 4	New: Wick R8 GCI Rotor Radar Station
June 20	New: Femöre Fort (Sweden) - Swedish Underground Cold War Coast Defence Battery and Command Centre
June 15	New: Faraid Head ('RAI') R10 CEW Rotor Radar Station
May 20	Updated: Swynnerton SRHQ 91/RGHQ 9.1
May 5	New: Excelsior Tunnel (Operation Orpheus)
Apr 28	New: RAF Bawdsey - ROTOR period VHF/UHF transmitter and receiver blocks New: RAF Bawdsey - R7 Rotor radar bunker RAF Bawdsey Rotor Radar Station
Apr 18	New: Fort Southwick (Portsmouth) NATO Communications Centre
Mar 13	New: Finsbury Borough Control
Mar 4	New: EAST GERMANY  Wollenberg - Station 301 (Tropospheric Communications Station)
Mar 3	Updated: RAF Upper Heyford 46 new photographs added
Feb 19	New: Portsmouth District Council Emergency Centre
Jan 23	New: Coldblow Ace High forward scatter relay station
Dec 18	New Feature ACE HIGH Nato communications system Updated: RAF Stenigot Ace High forward scatter relay station and Chain Home radar station.
Nov 18	New EAST GERMANY Garzau NVA Computer Centre
Nov 9	Updated: (RAF) Barnham - (94 Maintenance Unit) Nuclear Bomb Store New Dartford Borough Council Emergency Centre
Nov 4	New: EAST GERMANY Strausberg Communications and operations bunkers
Nov 1	New: (RAF) Faldingworth - (92 Maintenance Unit) Nuclear Bomb Store
Oct 25	Updated: RAF Aird Uig - New information and archive photographs
Oct 23	Updated: RAF Bawdsey Rotor Radar Station
Oct 11	New EAST GERMANY: Wildpark (Kürfurst) Communications Bunker at Potsdam
Oct 9	New Kintyre Civil Defence Training Centre EAST GERMANY: 'The Stasi', Schönfeld Stasi Bunker, Körbelitz Stasi Bunker, Altengrabow Training Area and Russian Communications Bunker
Sept 7	New Broughton: RAF Longley Lane SOC Communications Bunker
Aug 25	New Rugby Radio Station
Aug 23:	Updated: RAF Prestatyn ('SYP') CHEL R11 ROTOR Radar Station - New Pictures & report added Updated: (minor) Bristol Waterworks Emergency Control Centre - for sale in 2003
Aug 21:	New Aird Uig: 'RAF Aird Uig' ('WIU') CEW R10 ROTOR Radar Station
Aug 14:	New Tiree: RAF Scarinish ('FLY') GCI R8 ROTOR Radar Station
Aug 12:	Updated (minor): Jersey - BBC Transmitter site at Les Platons.
Jul 25:	New Feature: The Towers of Backbone. The enigma of Backbone has been with us for over 30 years, read on .....
Jul 22:	Updated: Fylingdales - New picture of SSPAR added.
Jul 17:	New: Cardiff : Llandaff Sub Control.
Jul 15:	Updated: Cardiff (Coryton) Regional War Room/Cardiff Corporation Control - New report and internal picture gallery added.
Jun 12:	New: Rochonvillers - (France) Maginot Line Gros Ouvrage and later French Army nuclear command bunker.
Jun 7:	New: Edmonton Borough Control (2nd site).
May 25:	New: Criggion Radio Station - near Welshpool.
2003:	Previous site Additions & Updates:
Apr 29:	New: Snaefell R11 ROTOR Station - Isle of Man.
Apr 28:	Updated: Truro ROC 11 Group HQ Picture of demolition added.
April 8:	Updated: Cold War sites in the UK: A Gazetteer.
Mar 19:	Updated: Birmingham Anchor Telephone Exchange, new information and plan of the tunnels. Greenwich Borough Control, new report, photographs and plan.
Mar 11:	New: The Rotundas.
Mar 7:	Updated: Rhydymwyn, new photographs taken during demolition of surface buildings in 2003.
Mar 6:	Updated: RNXS Harwich, new information and operational photographs added.
Mar 3:	Added: Solihull Metropolitan Borough Emergency Centre. Guildford SRC/SRHQ 5.1 Walton-on-Thames Area Sub-Control. Shrewsbury AFHQ9. Stafford: Staffordshire County Emergency Centre. Queslett PR1 Repeater. Uddingston PR1 repeater. Ely: East Cambridgeshire District Council Emergency Centre. Godalming: Waverly District Council Emergency Centre. Banbury: Cherwell District Council Emergency Centre. Witney: West Oxfordshire District Council Emergency Centre. East Dereham: Breckland District Council Emergency Centre. Updated: Birkenshaw AAOR (new picture).
2002:	Previous site Additions & Updates:
Nov 26:	Added: Chatham, Kent: Southern Water Emergency Control Centre. Salisbury: Urban District Control Centre.
Nov 22:	Added: Farncombe: Cold Store, Surrey.
Nov 14:	Added: St. Twynnells: 'RAF St. Twynnells' 'TWY' GCI R6 ROTOR Radar Station.
Nov 12:	Added: Jersey: BBC Transmitter site at Les Platons. Jersey: Civil Emergency Centre. Jersey: Gouray Monitoring Post. Jersey: St. Queens Church Monitoring Post. Updated: Pembroke Dock: Llanion Barracks - 4 Group AAOR for the Milford Haven GDA.
Nov 11:	Updated: Cold War sites in the UK: A Gazetteer.
Nov 6:	Added: Plymouth: Borough Control. Plymouth: Emergency Centre. Updated: Langley Lane: Goosnargh, Lancs (3 new pic's). Fylingdales: Yorkshire. Kirklevington Hall (Tees): 5 Group, 83 Brigade AAOR.
Oct 18:	Added: Goldsborough: Cold Store, North Yorkshire. Catterick: 'RAF Catterick' - Sector Operations Centre (SOC).
Sept 19:	Added: Cold War sites in the UK: A Gazetteer
Sept 17:	Added: Queenborough, Kent: Sub Control. Bull & Bush: Unopened Northern Line Underground Station (Cold War use). Harwich: RNXS Emergency Port Control. Sheerness, Kent: RNXS Emergency Port Control. Updated: Yeovil: ROC Group HQ No 9. Maidstone, Kent: ROC Group No 1 HQ.
Aug 29:	Added: Fairlight ('9'): R2 CHEL ROTOR Station.
Aug 28:	Added: Totnes: South West Water Emergency Control Centre at Little Hempston. Exeter: Borough Control. Guernsey: Civil Defence Headquarters. Guernsey: St. Martin Monitoring Post. Guernsey: Torteval Monitoring Post. Guernsey: Vale Monitoring Post. ROC & UKWMO database: Channel Islands. Updated Alderney. Spadeadam. Leicester: Severn Trent Water Emergency Control Centre.
Aug 9:	Added: Anti-Aircraft Operations Rooms (AAOR's): Evolution, Use & Stand down. Dover Castle: AAOR (99 Brigade) serving the Dover GDA.
Aug 5:	Updated: Lisburn: ROC Group HQ No 31 (Belfast) & 3 Group, 51 Brigade AAOR serving Belfast & Londonderry GDA.
July 24:	Updated: Hopton: CHEL(B) R2 ROTOR Radar Station. Leicester: Severn Trent Water Emergency Control Centre.
July 17:	Updated: Rhydymwyn: Valley Works site.
July 3:	Added: Belfast: Northern Ireland Regional War Room. Belfast: Stormont Sub Control. Updated: Lincolnshire County & Lincoln District Emergency Centre.
July 2:	Added: Nottingham: Regional 'War Room' / RSG 3.0. Campsie: AAOR serving the Londonderry GDA.
June 19:	Added: East Kilbride: Western Zone Regional War Room.
May 31:	Minor update: PRESTON (Langley Lane, Goosnargh): ROC Group HQ No 21 & UKWMO National HQ.
May 30:	Added: Inverness: Highland Emergency Centre (Raigmore). Inverness: (Raigmore) - ROC Group HQ No 30. Updated: Pembroke Dock: (Llanion Barracks) 4 Group AAOR for the Milford Haven GDA. Oban: ROC Group HQ No 27. Inverkip (Clyde Anchorage): 3 Group, 77 Brigade AAOR.
May 3:	Added: Hayes: Sub Area Control. Spadeadam: Gilsland, Cumbria.1950s: test area for the British Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM). Eston (Yorkshire): Grangetown Area Control. Tower Hamlets (London): Borough Control 51B4.
May 2:	Added: Rudloe Manor: No 1 Site - WW2 10 Group Operations Block & ROC/UKWMO Southern Sector Control. Updated: RAF Buchan: former ROTOR GCI(R3) radar station. Edinburgh: City Control. Rotherham: County Borough Control.Lansdown: AAOR 2 Group, 14 Brigade / ROC Group HQ No 12. Dagenham: Borough Control.Camden: Borough Control. Ottringham: BBC Ottringham. Southport: Sefton Metropolitan Borough Emergency Centre (Site 1). Alençon Link, Basingstoke: SRHQ 62/RGHQ6.2. Lincoln: (Fiskerton) Royal Observer Corps No.15 Group HQ & UKWMO Midlands Sector HQ.
May 1:	Updated: Norwich: ROC Group HQ No 6. Seaton Snook: ROTOR GCI(R3) radar station.
April 17:	Updated: Worsley: AAOR (Manchester GDA): 4 Group, 70 Brigade.
March 28:	Updated: Halifax: County Borough Control: Sub -Area Control (+floor plan). Kings Lynn: Joint Norfolk County Standby & West Norfolk District Emergency Centre (+floor plan). Kanne: NATO Joint Operations Centre (+floor plan).
March 14:	Added: Cheadle: Manchester Regional War Room/Greater Manchester County Main Control. Clapton: WW2 ARP Control Centre & Post War Hackney Borough Sub-Control. Manchester: Corporation Main Control. Stockport: GPO(BT) Protected PR1 repeater. Trerew: WW2 & ROTOR CH Radar Station. Updated: Stoke Newington: Borough Control Centre (1st Site). Hackney (London E8): WW2 ARP Control Centre / Hackney Borough Control (1st site). Hackney ( London E8): Stoke Newington Borough Control (2nd site) / Hackney Borough Control (2nd site). Stonehaven: Kindardine and Deeside District Council Emergency Centre. Langtoft: R6 GCI ROTOR Radar Station.
Feb 20:	Updated: Truro: ROC Group HQ No 11.
Feb 14:	New: Middlesex: County Group Control. Stoke Newington: Borough Control Centre. Seaton Snook: 'RAF Seaton Snook' ('DYR') GCI R3 ROTOR Radar Station. Alderney: Civil Defence. Paddington (London): Paddington Borough Control. Updated: Alençon Link, Basingstoke: SRHQ 62/RGHQ6.2. Rochester, Kent: Shorts Brothers Seaplane Factory and public air raid shelter. Deepdene (Surrey): WW2 Southern Railway Traffic Control Centre.
Feb 7:	News: Major new book: 'Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers' is going to press this week!
Jan 29:	Updated: 'Places to go': Mistley AAOR: 'Last Year'.
Jan 18:	New: Bristol: Waterworks Emergency Control Centre. Luton: County Borough Control. Dagenham: WW2 CD Control Centre. Lincolnshire: County & Lincoln District Emergency Centre. Blyth, Northumberland: Blyth Area Control. Pluckley, Kent: Domestic fallout shelter. Reigate: Borough Emergency Centre &Surrey County Standby. Tottenham, London: Tottenham Borough Control. Updated: Southport: Duke's House SRHQ 10.1 / RGHQ 10.1. Birmingham: Anchor Exchange. Turnhouse, Edinburgh : ROC Group HQ No 24. Lincoln: Royal Observer Corps No.15 Group HQ & UKWMO Midlands Sector HQ (Fiskerton). Oban: ROC Group HQ No 27. Godstone: Private Fallout Shelter. Dover Castle: Kent, 'Dumpy' Level - RSG 12 / SRC 6.2. Brighouse: West Yorkshire Sub County Control. Ottringham: BBC Ottringham. Northfield: Aberdeen, ROC 29 Group HQ. 'RAF Chenies' : ('HAM') R8 GCI ROTOR Station
Jan 17:	Updated: Bawdsey: 'RAF Bawdsey' ('PKD') R3 GCI ROTOR Radar Station. Goldsborough: 'RAF Goldsborough' ('JEX') R2 CHEL ROTOR Radar Station. Trimmingham: 'RAF Trimmingham' ('QLE') CEW R1 ROTOR Radar Station. Added: Ridgeway Hill: AAOR serving Portland GDA.
Jan 15:	Updated: 'RAF Hopton': CHEL(B) R2 ROTOR Radar Station. Shipton: N. Yorks. 'RAF Shipton', ROTOR R4 SOC & SRHQ 21 / RGHQ 2.1.
2001	Previous site Additions & Updates:
Dec 13:	Added: Birkenhead: Wirral Metropolitan Borough Emergency Centre/Merseyside County Standby (Site 2). Bootle: Merseyside County Main Emergency Centre (Site 2) & WW2 Decontamination and Cleansing Station. Chester: WW2 Railway Control Centre. Southport: Sefton Metropolitan Borough Emergency Centre (Site 1). Southport: Duke's House SRHQ 10.1 / RGHQ 10.1. Southport: Merseyside County Standby (Site 1) & Sefton Metropolitan Borough Emergence Centre (Site 2). Deepdene: WW2 Southern Railway Traffic Control Centre. Liverpool: Merseyside County Main Emergency Centre (1st site). Liverpool: Sub Control. Updated: Frodsham (Mersey): 4 Group, 79 Brigade AAOR.
Dec 6:	Added: Chenies: ('HAM') R8 GCI ROTOR Station. Ipswich: Autovon Telephone Exchange. Updated: Swynnerton: SRHQ / RGHQ 9.1s. Wenallt, nr Cardiff: AAOR, 4 Group 71Brigade, Cardiff GDA. Christchurch: Hampshire County Council and County Borough of Bournemouth Area Control.
Dec 5:	Major new addition: SEARCH facility added
Dec 5:	Added: Gosforth (Newcastle): 5 Group, 8 Brigade, Tyne GDA AAOR. Lancashire: County Emergency Centre. Sopley: RAF Sopley ('AVO') 'R3' GCI ROTOR Station. Oxfordshire: County Emergency Centre. Christchurch: Hampshire County Council and County Borough of Bournemouth Area Control. Updated: Amersham: Chiltern: District Council Emergency Control Centre. Wennalt: AAOR, 4 Group 71Brigade, Cardiff GDA.
Nov 26:	Added: Birmingham: Anchor Exchange. Warwickshire: County Emergency Centre. Warmley: GPO(BT) Protected PR2.
Nov 19:	Added: Lowestoft: Sub Control. Bodmin: Emergency Centre. Gosport: Borough Control. Hastings: Borough Control. Brinklow Heath: Protected BBC transmitter block. Blunsdon: Thames Water Bunker. Oxford: City & County of Oxford Control. Lyndon Green: GPO(BT) PR1 Protected Repeater. Rothwell: Civil Defence Control Centre. Brightlingsea: Urban District Council Control Centre. Llywppia: Rhondda Cynon Taff Joint Emergency Centre. Kings Lynn: North Norfolk Sub County Control. Portsmouth: GPO(BT) Protected PR1 repeater. Willesden (London N.W.2): Admiralty Citadel (Oxgate). Orpington: Southern Railway Control Centre. Hillingdon: Borough Control (51E7). Updated: Chancery Lane: Deep Level Shelter / Kingsway telephone exchange. Upper Heyford(RAF): Oxon. Kirknewton: War Room: Region 11 / Scottish Eastern Zone HQ: Region 1.2d. Cambridge: Regional War Room / RSG 4. Holmpton/Patrington: GCI R3 ROTOR Radar Station ('VQJ'). Crosslaw: CHEL R2 ROTOR Radar Station ('HCV'). Truleigh Hill: R2 CHEL ROTOR Radar Station ('SNG'). Reading: `War Room' Region 6. Torrance House: Scotland. Pear Tree House: London SE19. Dollis Hill: Standby WW2 Cabinet War Room (Paddock), London NW2. Bawburgh: Norwich. Wawne AAOR: Humberside.
Nov 6:	Added: Gillingham Borough Control
Nov 6:	Added: Leeds: War Room Region 2 / Leeds City Council Sub Control / Control. Halifax: County Borough Control. Leeds: Regional CEGB Grid Control Centre at Rothwell Haigh. Saffron Walden: Uttlesford District Council Emergency Centre. Thornbury: North Avon District Council Emergency Centre. Updated: Birkenshaw (Leeds): 5 Group, 69 Brigade AAOR.
Oct 31:	Updated: RAF Uxbridge: 11 Group Headquarters.
Oct 29:	New: Crawley: Borough Emergency Centre. Redhill: Southern Railway Control Centre. Elgin, Morayshire: Pinefields Area Control. Edmonton, N.18 Borough Control. Burntisland: Railway Control Centre. Updated: Crowborough: Sussex. Wanstead: London NE Group War HQ (Control 51B). RAF Uxbridge: 11 Group Headquarters.
Oct 26:	New: Horsham: District Emergency Centre. Dagenham: Borough Control. Finchley: Borough Control. Nottingham: Regional 'War Room' / RSG 3.0. Updated: Conisbrough (Sheffield): 5 Group, 65 Brigade AAOR.
Oct 25:	New: Castle Point: Borough Emergency Centre. Greenwich: Borough Control. Tayside: Regional Council Emergency Centre (proposed). Ditton Priors: Royal Navy Armament Depot. Updated: Brighouse: West Yorkshire Sub County Control.
Oct 24:	New: Bristol: Clifton Rocks Tunnel.Rotherham: County Borough Control. Holmpton ('VQJ'): GCI R3 ROTOR Radar Station. Updated: Chislehurst: South East London Regional War Room.
Oct 23:	New: Chichester: West Sussex County Emergency Centre. Debden: RAF Debden - Sector Operations Centre. Camden: Borough Control. Huddersfield: County Borough Civil Defence Control Centre.
Oct 22:	New: Aberdeen: Grampian Regional Council Emergency Centre. Inverurie: Gordon District Council Emergency Centre. Stonehaven: Kindardine and Deeside District Council Emergency Centre. Doncaster: Borough Control. Wandsworth: Borough Control 51D1. Holderness: District Council Emergency Centre. Harrogate: North Yorkshire Sub County Control. Ottringham: BBC Ottringham. Updated: Brislington, Bristol: `War Room' Region 7. Portland: CEW R1 ROTOR Radar Station ('NIB'): 815 Signals Unit.
Oct 17:	New: Crosslaw: CHEL R2 ROTOR Radar Station. Inverbervie: CEW R1 ROTOR Radar Station. Aberdeen: City Civil Defence Control. Edzell: RAF Edzell. Edinburgh: City Standby Control. Updated: Kirknewton: War Room: Region 11 / Scottish Eastern Zone HQ: Region 1.2.
Oct 16:	Updated:Craigiebarns, Dundee: ROC 28 Group Headquarters & UKWMO Caledonian Sector HQ.
Oct 10:	Updated: Henley on Thames. Cultybraggan: RGHQ. Beachy Head (ROTOR: CEW). Springfields: Maidstone, Kent. Inverkip (Clyde Anchorage): 3 Group, 77 Brigade AAOR. Durham: ROC Group HQ No 23. Barnton Quarry. Stenigot: Chain Home (CH) and ACE - HIGH. Hack Green: Cheshire. Ullenwood. Bentwaters. MersthamPendell Camp AAOR: Group 1, Brigade 15/64 London South GDA. New: Treleaver (ROTOR: GCI). Kanne: NATO Joint Operations Centre. Bedminster: Sub Control. East Ham: Borough Control. Southwark: Borough Control 51C5. Brede: Waterworks Bunker. Godstone: Private Fallout Shelter. Knavesmire: York: WW2 ROC Group HQ.
Aug 30:	Updated: Inverkip (Clyde Anchorage GDA): 3 Group, 77 Brigade AAOR.
Aug 29:	Updated: Partingdale Lane: Mill Hill, London. Worsley AAOR (Manchester GDA): 4 Group, 70 Brigade. Gairloch AAOR (Loch Ewe GDA): 3 Group, 78 Brigade.
Aug 27:	Updated (External Picture): Wylde Green (Birmingham): 4 Group, 74 Brigade AAOR.
Aug 21:	Updated: Oban: ROC Group HQ No 27. Carmarthen: South Wales: ROC No.13 Group HQ.
Aug 20:	Updated: Northfield, Aberdeen ROC Group HQ No 29.
Aug 15:	Updated: Raigmore: Inverness.

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