History
There isn't a lot of history to this. It opened in July 1958 and closed in September 1991.
That is literally about it.
The Explore
I came across this when I was looking at another forum, myself and @hamtagger liked the look of the 'Manning up Procedure' sign which was...
My visit
Visited with Southside Assassin, thanks to him for the nice day out
:) Roasting hot day and I mean roasting, Southside and I decided on a little mooch over to Cheddington again, I had missed a fair few bits of the base so wanted to go back, we stopped by the ROC post, my first ROC...
Woop woop! First one that was open, I had previously tied one near Donnington and one in Gnosall to find welded lids...
Seriously overgrown it took me over 20 mins to get the brambles off the sucker. Has a geocache in it and was flooded an inch. I laced the brambles back over so hopefully the...
Opened in 1959 and closed in 1991, it's an absolutely fantastic ROC post, with many original features intact.
It was quite the cold evening and my second outing with a DSLR which i thoroughly enjoyed, here are a few pictures from my visit.
The hatch and all the surface features remain intact...
2013:
As far as I know this is still here
2009:
To those non-British, we have hundreds of these undeground bunkers built around the United Kingdom, as monitoring stations for the Cold War, some were built in 1951 and closed in 1968, and others built in 1959 and closed in 1991. There was...
2013:
Ive no idea if this is still here, if you do go, please ring the bell on the gates and ask, we were busted here and the couple were very pleasant people but concerned.
2009:
To those non-British, we have hundreds of these undeground bunkers built around the United Kingdom, as monitoring...
Loved my day here..visited with the late great DHL who prior to this had made me trudge thru Middleton mine..feeling fooked,he said he just had to show me Brassington,and I am so glad he did..the man was a diamond and I do miss him...
No history but as per ROC Post general history,this closed...
desided to go a hunt for this one as its local to me but after finding it and opening it we found that it was chest high in water but smmed to have a few things still down there (sorry for the quality of the photos but i sont had my iPhone)
*(if there's any spelling/grammar mistakes sorry about...
don't know any real infomation about this site apart from it was surprisingly dry down there!
full set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/samcain/se ... 501894700/
This site is in amazing condition and although this was a tour, the lady showing us around was more than happy for us to take some time to take photos.
Most of the smaller items have been removed to a ROC museum, alot of the larger items such as generators remain. The generators apparently...
After seeing the posts on here of the other ROC Posts and been a bit of a ROC Virgin I thought I would look into this a little bit more and try and visit a post for myself.
This is the little bit of history I know on this particular post.
“The post was originally closed in 1968 but was...
On our way up to a rally on the Epynt Ranges (yeah, the one with the Toyota Sunbeam crash - we saw it happen and actually helped the driver (Darren Pool) out of the car), Hood_mad spotted this ROC post up on a small rise on the outskirts of Sennybridge.
We parked the evo up and wandered over to...
Visited with hood_mad and guided round by captain slow.
I've wanted to do this for ages because it's basically right on my doorstep.
The history has been done many times before, so I'll just add my photos to the list. :D
The main room.
Strip light.
Backup light.
Gauge.
Air vent...
finanly i found an open post i was rather exited the farmer caught us walking on his land and said we could even look in there nice guy easily repairable post tho just needs the weight put on and a bit bent back did have a go at putting down the lid but to no avail any way on with the pics this...
Hood_mad saw this one on one of his drives and rang Dangerous Dave (BB) and Me to meet him there. I managed to trace the location to this report from subbrit...