Written by Keith Ward on 22 October 2001.
Holderness District Council Emergency Centre at Skirlaugh on the west side of the A165. The bunker was built in 1989 and is located beneath the Council Chamber, which is a small extension between the old workhouse and the new council block to the rear. Holderness District Council was abolished in 1996 although the bunker was taken out of use some years earlier, not long after it was completed. The bunker is now used as East Riding Council’s reserve archive store. The main entrance is inside the Council Chamber although two ventilation stacks are clearly visible alongside the building as is the emergency access shaft below a manhole cover.
Written by Martin Briscoe on 21 March 2024.
In the Yorkshire Post
“A vacant council building with a Cold War nuclear bunker is among six in the East Riding set to be sold off.”
“including the one at Skirlaugh. The Skirlaugh Offices were once home to Holderness District Council’s Emergency Centre.”
“It was built in 1989 in the final years of the Cold War but it was closed after the fall of the Soviet Union while Holderness District Council itself was abolished in 1996. The building has since housed East Riding Council’s reserve archive but it is has now been vacated. The cabinet heard that it is set to be put on the market.”