The Last Cold War Bunker In The UK!

Today I visited somewhere unique, a cold war bunker, the last of it's kind to survive in the UK.
Originally there was over 1500 of these throughout the country, but when the cold war ended, they were closed and no one was preserving them.

Thankfully someone saw what was happening and managed to preserve this one, almost in the centre of the city of York.

It's strange as you drive to where it is as it is now in the middle of a housing estate, English Heritage had to sell off some of the land to fund the 6 year restoration of this building.

I love the old control panels, this one was to control the air con, although if there was a nuclear war, then the aircon would have been turned off and it would have got rather hot in there. The guide told us that if in the case of war, toilets could only be flushed once ever 8 hours to preserve water, no one could get showered for 30 days, so you can imagine it would get smelly down there.

Another thing he said is that if anyone became ill, then they would get kicked out as not to infect the entire base, no matter what was happening outside.

(The main control room)

The above picture is the main control room, even the map on the table was top secret as it had on it where all these bunkers were and other vital information, it's one of the most detailed maps that was made at the time.

The above image is A.W.D.R.E.Y. now I'm afraid I can't fully remember the actual meaning of the acronym, but this was another top secret piece of machinery, developed between the British and Americans, this detected nuclear explosions etc.

The bunker is a great experience, certainly something that I've never been in, and will probably visit again when I'm in the area, there were some rooms we went in but were too small to take pictures, we were part of the first group around the bunker, thankfully managed to get parked and there was only 7 people including ourselves in the group.
When we came out, there was a massive group awaiting to go in, so my advice is, go for the first tour lol.

Another thing that stuck with me is that due to the bunkers rarity, it has the same protection as Stone Henge.

All shots done with my iPhone XR, as I didn't take my proper camera with me on this occasion.

Today I visited somewhere unique, a cold war bunker, the last of it's kind to survive in the UK.
Originally there was over 1500 of these throughout the country, but when the cold war ended, they were closed and no one was preserving them.

Thankfully someone saw what was happening and managed to preserve this one, almost in the centre of the city of York.

It's strange as you drive to where it is as it is now in the middle of a housing estate, English Heritage had to sell off some of the land to fund the 6 year restoration of this building.

I love the old control panels, this one was to control the air con, although if there was a nuclear war, then the aircon would have been turned off and it would have got rather hot in there. The guide told us that if in the case of war, toilets could only be flushed once ever 8 hours to preserve water, no one could get showered for 30 days, so you can imagine it would get smelly down there.

Another thing he said is that if anyone became ill, then they would get kicked out as not to infect the entire base, no matter what was happening outside.

(The main control room)

The above picture is the main control room, even the map on the table was top secret as it had on it where all these bunkers were and other vital information, it's one of the most detailed maps that was made at the time.

The above image is A.W.D.R.E.Y. now I'm afraid I can't fully remember the actual meaning of the acronym, but this was another top secret piece of machinery, developed between the British and Americans, this detected nuclear explosions etc.

The bunker is a great experience, certainly something that I've never been in, and will probably visit again when I'm in the area, there were some rooms we went in but were too small to take pictures, we were part of the first group around the bunker, thankfully managed to get parked and there was only 7 people including ourselves in the group.
When we came out, there was a massive group awaiting to go in, so my advice is, go for the first tour lol.

Another thing that stuck with me is that due to the bunkers rarity, it has the same protection as Stone Henge.

All shots done with my iPhone XR, as I didn't take my proper camera with me on this occasion.