Remember this?

[Thermo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4743384.stm

Does it still make your blood run cold. I dont think anyone who didnt live through the cold war could really understand the constant little nagging threat and tension that was there. I can always remeber it as a source of conversation (what would you do in 4 minutes if the warning went off?)

 

[crystal ball]

A few years ago I was working on the roof of the factory where I was maintenance spark, and found a fairly substantial siren which had been wired to the mains. One of the older hands told me it was a nuclear attack warning for the village

 

[toffee]

I know we live with threats now ( I was born in 70) but I remeber how my granda and nana used to live in seperate rooms because he used to have horrendous nightmares about war stuff.
I remeber asking him questions as a little girl and he would never me anything, always change the subject.
I now know some of the things he endured... as a fighter in the war, (it breaks my heart) but also as a child years before that.
He was always really stingy with things like butter and food portions and waste and stuff.
Apparently this was because he spent days where he and his brothers and sisters would sob with hunger but there was no more food due to rations etc..
And the fear of seeing loved ones dying infront of his eyes...


I know awful awful things happen today aswell....
But my children as yet remain blissfully unaware of potential threat... unlike my grand daddy.
I cant image how that was..

I dont mean to make light of anyone affected by todays wars either.

 

[notb665]

Yeah I remember that. I was born in 1975 and remember that been shown when I was about 7. We were also shown a video about the effects of a detonation and a simulation of what would happen to a human head if you were not covered from flying glass; the head was a pumpkin and the demonstration was quite disturbing!

 

[Brightness]

Ooooh yep I remember those adverts. They were awful and scary. What gets me though is how many of us actually had 'fall out rooms' in our houses? That's what was even more scarier

Tbh though, how many of us would want to live in a fall out zone? Would there really be any life after a nuclear attack?

What was even scarier was that I lived less than a mile away from a Royal Ordnance Factory and we used to get ban the bomb protestors chained to railings there. In the war my Grandfather worked there, making munitions and always told my Nana and his kids that the tunnels underneath it went for miles underground - probably under our house That's what scared me more than anything - especially as the MOD would neither confirm nor deny that a nuclear program existed there .


This is where I lived..... http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/wellscs/geog/Llan6.html verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry posh LMAO.

 

[Brightness]

Just found this on the net too, it's from a House of Commons web page ....Atomic Weapons Establishment, Llanishen

Mr. Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 2 April, Official Report, column 95, when he expects to have an estimate of the decommissioning costs of Atomic Weapons Establishment, Llanishen, Cardiff, and for how long the site will require sterilisation before any after-use. [25193]


16 Apr 1996 : Column: 456

Mr. Arbuthnot: An estimate of the decommissioning costs of the atomic weapons establishment, Llanishen, Cardiff was made in 1994. It was taken into account in reaching the decision to close the factory. A period of sterilisation will not be required once the work of decontaminating the site has been completed in accordance with the requirements of the local authority.


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm all very suss to me.... Can't think if they have built on the land or not yet. Will have to ask mother....

 

[Nige F]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4743384.stm

Does it still make your blood run cold. No never did (what would you do in 4 minutes if the warning went off?)

..Put my head between my legs and kiss my ass goodbye Saw the Berlin Wall go up.....and come down again

 

[Thermo]

bet you never thought youd see it come down did you?

 

[empip]

35 acres under Wilts ... 60 miles of roads .. to accomodate 4,000 civil servants and seat of Govn for 3 months....... equipped with the second largest telephone exchange in Britain, a BBC studio from which the PM could address the nation .. Wot nation?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2005/12/14/burlington_nuclear_bunker_feature.shtml

At the approach to Box Tunnel from the eastern or Chippenham end, there is a siding to a single way tunnel alongside the main lines ... this served further underground areas... stored were thousands of tons of ordnance !! Never mind a nuke.. an 'Englands Glory' could've done the job !

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/about.html

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Visited this place once:



very interesting.

 

[toffee]

what is that?

 

[johnny_t]

Oo- I've been there too. Grew up near Brentwood, don't y'know.....


I was born in 1970 and spent my whole teenage years convinced that Brezhnev could wake up in a bad mood one morning and press the button with no warning (mostly 'cos thats what my Dad used to say). Only now do I realise there may have been a bit more build-up to it than that...

 

[toffee]

well I didnt, so where and what is it

 

[johnny_t]

Sorry - Wasn't ignoring you.

Its the nuclear bunker near Kelvedon Hatch in Essex - It goes down for about 5 storeys and was going to be the command centre for Thatch and the others in the event of war. There is also a fake church nearby for the generators and batteries.

One thing I always remember is that it had a big security door to stop everyone trying to get in, and it (the door) was pointing away from London so that the blast didn't blow it off its hinges.

 

[johnny_t]

Here you go.....

http://www.japar.demon.co.uk/