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"However, the German infantry halted abruptly after finding and drinking a large cache of kirsch liquor in a garage along the route" The Lorraine offensive 1944
Het is een nucleaire bunker, en eentje die tegen een serieus stootje kan..
Site Name: PRESTON (Langley Lane, Goosnargh)
ROC Group HQ No 21 & UKWMO National HQ.
The Group HQ used the adapted WW2 9 Group Control (the site was also previously adapted as a ROTOR SOC - see below) with the administration in a pre-fabricated building alongside. The complex also housed the Western Area Sector Operations Centre. The Former ROC Group HQ is now owned by a veterinary practice who use the administration block alongside although the bunker itself is empty.
If the bomb was about to go off, Goosnargh would have been the first to know through its sophisticated phone exchange. Upgraded in the 1980s, the exchange maintained contact with 850 monitoring stations across Britain. The lines are all still there, along with the blue bulb whose use was reserved for the moment that all who worked there hoped would never happen. Goosnargh was well equipped for such an apocalypse. Its electricity generation plant, huge water tanks, controlled temperature system and water borehole were improved in the 1980s. Still pristine, they could have kept the place going for weeks. The last staff turned out the lights and retired to the surface in 1992, since when the station has been empty.
Dodo schreef:Origineel WO2? Waar staat de datum. !
House-hunters are being invited to bid for the shelter, originally built to protect British servicemen from Nazi bombings during the Second World War.
Situated under a grass mound at Langley Lane, Goosnargh, near Preston, the bunker was built in 1940 to protect Fighter Command - a special unit within the Royal Air Force - from German attack during the Battle of Britain, but later converted into a nuclear bunker.