Subterranea Britannica

This booklet details around 250 underground sites in the UK that are open to the public. Sites range from Neolithic flint mines to nuclear bunkers. Many sites are open year-round, admission to others is sometimes limited to special visits arranged by local groups. A brief description, location and contact details are listed for each site, along with a breakdown by county.

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The Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Posts is a comprehensive photographic record of the construction and operation of Britain's Cold War ROC posts. The book gives special attention to the range of equipment that would have been used in the post to detect and warn of nuclear attack and track and report radiation levels in the event of a nuclear war.

The volume contains approximately 500 colour and black and white archive photographs and plans accompanied by comprehensive captions and an authoritative text.

Cold War Bunkers is the second volume in a series of high-quality photographic records of Britain's underground heritage. The large-format volume contains approximately 439 colour photographs accompanied by comprehensive captions and an authoritative text.

In many instances Nick Catford has been granted unprecedented access to many highly sensitive sites including underground, semi-underground and surface-built cold-war atomic and nuclear bunkers. Sites include those of central and local government, the armed forces, civil defence, the ROC and public utilities.

Second World War Secret Bunkers is a detailed, large format photographic record of all the major underground sites developed in great secrecy by the British government and military establishments in preparation for the Second World War.

Sites illustrated include the vast Corsham network in North Wiltshire, the series of ill-fated RAF underground bomb stores, the art treasures repositories, numerous underground factories, storage tunnels for chemical weapons and much more.

224 pages with over 400 colour and B&W photographs, maps and plans, accompanied by an authoritative text.

Bath Stone Quarries is a comprehensive photographic record of all the stone quarries in the Bath and North Wiltshire area. Using both early archive images and contemporary photographs, the book tracks the history of the industry from its Victorian expansion up until the Second World War, when most of the quarries were requisitioned for various government purposes. The story resumes in the post-war years and continues to the present day.

The large-format volume contains approximately 350 colour photographs accompanied by maps, plans and an authoritative text.