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I have visited the Kelvedon Hatch bunker, very interesting and also very chilling, it brings home the threat that was very real back then.
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Interesting to know that they planned to run episodes of 'The Goons' during a time of nuclear conflict - both things with madness at their core, though 'The Goons' was at least a funny kind of madness! Also quite sobering to think about what might very easily have been a real-life scenario?
Back in the early '80s, I was a member of the 'Royal Observer Corps' at my local branch in Hythe, Hampshire (we had an ex WWII Hawker Typhoon pilot in our team - an interesting guy, who's name was Bill I think, or Bob, but I remember we gave him the nickname of 'Tiffie'!). We used to hold regular practice exercises where we had to rush down to a compound which contained a nuclear bunker in a place called 'Lepe' beach on the Solent coast, enter a thick steel hatch and climb down a long ladder (the bunker was many feet down inside the cliff!) and then report back to HQ on the number of incoming missiles and where when they were hitting, and at what height the airbursts were? The bunker had a couple of beds, a small canteen, food/water and medical supplies and specialised air filtering systems within and we would have had to stay in there for weeks/months possibly! Great fun at the time but scary to think now that we may actually have had to put that practice into action for real and what the world might have looked like when we emerged?!
Sadly, The Royal Observer Corps disbanded in 1995, and I was only a member for 3 years, but it was great fun (I learned the 'phonetic' alphabet there) and something which I'll never forget.
An interesting article Tom, thanks.
Kev
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