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Essex Nuclear Bunker for sale

Last Post 25 Apr 2008 09:00 PM by the_historian. 5 Replies.

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25 Apr 2008 09:00 PM
//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6081706.stm Regards,Gordon http://freewebs.com/thehistoryvault/ www.photobucket.com/albums/y20/Historian

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25 Apr 2008 09:01 PM
Well, it's tempting. At least you'd get a decent wine cellar. It raises an interesting question for me. This place is an example of what would become archaeology to the next generation. What percentage of an era's buildings should we be preserving? Not far from this one is the Kelevedon Hatch one open to the public. A much bigger example.

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25 Apr 2008 09:01 PM
No problems from the neighbours either! Personally, I would preserve everything from the World Wars, but that's just the fanatic- I mean enthusiast- in me. Think the only logical answer is to preserve about 6 (for example) of the best preserved examples of each different type of structure, and then make sure that the rest are thoroughly surveyed and photgraphed before anything else happens to them. On this site's picture gallery are snaps I took at a wartime airfield in Perthshire. When I first visited in the early '90s, the technical area (hangars, workshops, offices etc) were wonderfully preserved, to the point that wartime grafitti was preserved on the walls of one of the offices in the HQ building. A couple of years ago, a developer brought in the RCAHMS, who recorded around 70 surviving wartime buildings before construction work started on luxury villas, and all that survives now is the control tower and underground battle HQ. In a way I was sad, but at least the field is preserved digitally if not physically, and I still have my wartime Air Ministry maps to remind me of the layout. Regards,Gordon http://freewebs.com/thehistoryvault/ www.photobucket.com/albums/y20/Historian

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25 Apr 2008 09:01 PM
Yeah, I always wonder how the authorities decide what is to be saved and what demolished. There seems to be a tendency to preserve the exceptional rather than the typical. There again it is rare I look at a preserved building and think that there was no point in saving it (although Park Hill in Sheffield often falls into this category) http://www.mmhg.org.uk/Major%20Projects/Park-Hill-aerial-shot-1.jpg http://pinguicula.typepad.com/photos/feb05/park_hill.jpg Jonathon Smith http://www.geocities.com/archchaos1/index.htm

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25 Apr 2008 09:01 PM
Good grief...looks like the architect threw a couple of curtain hooks on his drawing board and then copied the pattern! Regards,Gordon http://freewebs.com/thehistoryvault/ www.photobucket.com/albums/y20/Historian