In the grounds of Scarborough Castle, on the east side of Castle Hill, close to the cliff edge. 80 yards north of the keep and close to the coastguard lookout.
DEMOLISHED No trace of anything.
Opened about 1960 and closed in 1968.
In the grounds of Scarborough Castle, on the east side of Castle Hill, close to the cliff edge. 80 yards north of the keep and close to the coastguard lookout.
DEMOLISHED No trace of anything.
Opened about 1960 and closed in 1968.
This is very interesting. When we visited we had no idea where the post was as it’s not listed in Attack Warning Red which includes a gazetteer of underground posts but a small number are missing. Neville Cullingford (ROC museum) told me of it’s existence at the castle. We paid to go in and look round and found nothing. From the photos it was a few inches below the surface.
It’s rare for posts to be completely demolished as that would be expensive to achieve. Usual practice was to demolish the parts above ground and push them down the shaft and cover over. Sometimes the roof was broken up.
I remember visiting the Enfield post where this had probably happened. The farmer knew nothing about the bunker and I showed him exactly where it had been. A week later I got a phone call from him saying he had dug it open with his JCB and he invited me back to look.
Surface features demolished in 1969 and the bunker buried, however, the underground structure was rediscovered in 2026 - however it’s badly flooded.
English Heritage uncovers lost Cold War bunker at Scarborough Castle
I visited Scarborough Castle yesterday (Friday 27th March) hoping it might be possible to see what’s been uncovered. Unfortunately English Heritage have (for now) covered it back up again - all that can be seen is some areas of loose/replaced turf.
I’ve just been in a Zoom meeting where Kevin Booth (English Heritage) gave a talk about the search for and partial excavation of the Scarborough ROC post. The vent shaft had been demolished to ground level and the rubble tipped down the shaft, but the same was not done to the access shaft. This was cut back to ground level and the rubble removed and the concrete panels surrounding it had been undermined and they had tipped down into the trench but the shaft itself had had an amount of sand tipped in along with part of the access cover. which they were able to remove.
The team partially got some of the water out - enough to show that the door frames were very well preserved, but Kevin said he was reluctant at the moment to try to pump it out completely since that might well compromise whatever was still there. Photos taken from down the access shaft show the roof to be in good condition.
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