Access only via A128. Most bunkers were built on high … The Post in Hadleigh was situated Right of Frog Hall Lane, a quiet backroad that has recently been blocked with half now being a footpath and the other a short dead end of a road. Ike Barker and Jim Carey, who were radar operators at the RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk, in the early 1980s, say the object flew over the base during the much debated incident in December of 1980. The Information would then be communicated within a cluster of Posts via telephone lines where a single 'master post' would be equipped with a 'TeleTalk' to report back to an regional ROC HQ. ARCHIVED details for reference - Please click on the photo above to read more. ... RAF Barnham is close to the Town of Thetford in Suffolk it is located on Thetford Heath which has been used by the MOD since the early years of the Second World War. This walk is dependant upon tides and consultation of tide times is vital in order to negotiate the beach route. Given the number of available nuclear warheads in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, it is unlikely that the Barnham store was ever full. This is a list of Royal Observer Corps (ROC) nuclear monitoring posts incorporated into the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation (UKWMO).. Post 35, Number 6 Group (Norwich). The Building on the right hand picture is one of the maintenance buildings. Create an account | Login | Request new password. If using GPS please use CM15 0LA . Internally there is no lifting beam so it is presumed that the bomb were lifted of a road transporter and loaded onto a bomb trolley for storage. An underground chamber once built for Nuclear war still lies forgotten in the lonely back lane in Hadleigh. Above- One clue to the post's existence is the line of relatively abandoned telegraph poles where one of which would have connected to the bunker. Menu Skip to content. The Bunker was apparently almost in line with the bushes shown above (Right). Welcome to 28DaysLater.co.uk - 28DL - The UK Urban Exploring / Urban Exploration / Urbex Forums. The last nuclear weapons were probably removed from the site by April 1963. An increase in Cold War tensions in the early 1980s prompted one man to take drastic action. -SEPT 2018- News has come to light that the bunker only had it's surface structures removed, and then a Man-hole cover 'similar to that used for sewage' was put over the access shaft. A small Nuclear bunker designed to gather information from and monitor Nuclear blasts. The bunker is one of 44 lots, priced at £5,000 to £200,000, on sale at the site. Part of Barnham's function was to convince the Soviet Union that Britain had more weapons at her disposal than was in fact the case. Opening Times. Burlington has had many code names since its conception in the early 50s, these include Stockwell, Subterfuge, Turnstile, and more recently Site 3. Two More of the maintenance buildings protected by block work blast wall and both having airlock type entrances. Access only via A128. These HQ's were a lot more luxurious than the damp, cramped ROC Posts. It’s called Pindar. Aug 14, 2019 - Explore Jamie Jordan's board "Luxury Bunkers" on Pinterest. The Second World-War Aircraft observation post at Hadleigh. An underground chamber once built for Nuclear war still lies forgotten in the lonely back lane in Hadleigh. 94 Maintenance Unit and covers 23 acres with a roughly five sided pattern with projecting bastions that allowed the whole of the perimeter to be seen from the internal patrols. UKWMO Brundall is located in Norfolk, approximately 118 miles from London. The Function of the Non Nuclear component stores (left) was to hold the High explosive part of the bomb and its outer casing. An 11 mile circular walk along the Suffolk Coast Path between Southwold and Covehithe. WW2 Pillbox in the area, now a garden shed. National Grid Reference TL 8517 7988. Barnham was completed by 1957 and was able to supply the squadrons at Honnington, Marham, Watton, Wyton, Upwood and Bassingbourn.Barnham came under the control of No. The Royal Observer Corps in the Second World War were of vital importance during the Battle of Britain where their Aircraft observation Posts spotted German aircraft as it crossed the country. the post is presumably in a garden, or perhaps under a patch of shrubbery that to me seems rather pointless not to build on. Nuclear bunker in the heart of the Norfolk countryside could be yours for £25,000. the plan form of the Bomb Store remains virtually unmodified the majority of the buildings survive intact, the boundary fences and watch towers also remain. Subterranea Britannica is a society devoted to the study and investigation of man-made (including Nuclear Bunkers) and man-used underground places. Layby for parking is just about visable for the bunker. The overgrown, graffiti-clad area gives no indication of what lies beneath, but these pictures have revealed the bunker at Barnton Quarry. -SEPT 2018- News has come to light that the bunker only had it's surface structures removed, and then a Man-hole cover 'similar to that used for sewage' was put over the access shaft.