gilarion wrote:

I have visited a nuclear Bunker museum in Cheshire one of the most depressing places you could ever visit. There is a room you sit in and it as if a nuclear bomb goes off and you feel the blast the noise of the wind and then the noise of everything crashing around you I could not wait to get out. the rest of the exhibition is OK and there is a couple of old Land Rovers on display with nuclear warden signage.

seriesonenut wrote:

I'm old enough to remember when it was secret

Back in the 50's the Government removed a whole hill, constructed a nuclear bunker and put the hill and forest back on top! All you could see was a bungalow (guard house) through which you passed along a really long tunnel into the bunker. Think battle of britain control room, windows looking down into a map room of London & the South East along with a BBC broadcasting station, generators, hospital and room for 100's of the chosen few!

I went in during the late 80's as it was being decommissioned. Interesting to look round now a bit if social history.

Can't think in this day and age you could build something like that and nobody would have leaked it........

Intersetting, I pass it twice a day seven days a week, i presumed they used a TBM (not that they had them back then) and bored out the side of the hill.

Interestingly I spent the night at the SNB on my own as part of a bet with my friend (Who is a member of the local and renown Parrish Family), i nearly myself thrice. It was pitch black and the bunker isn't waterproof so you can hear dripping all night, ancient pumps humm, and wind blow through The "Emergency Exit". I needed to go and it took me nearly an hour to find a toilet so nearly myself there.

Then I got lost again and ran Into a storage cupboard full of mannequinns, Then I convinced myself i heard actuall footsteps and it turned out to be some ****** **** ******* ***** **** who decided it might be cool to check the bunker out at night for free, i nearly beat them to death for it.

I think they now do haunted sleepovers but the one experience was enough.

Easily one of my top three scary experiences. I'm on IG: https://www.instagram.com/osloblue42/
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gilarion wrote:

I have visited a nuclear Bunker museum in Cheshire one of the most depressing places you could ever visit. There is a room you sit in and it as if a nuclear bomb goes off and you feel the blast the noise of the wind and then the noise of everything crashing around you I could not wait to get out. the rest of the exhibition is OK and there is a couple of old Land Rovers on display with nuclear warden signage.