How many live near.....?

[rationtin440]

By now most everyone knows that I'm into cold war history, so I'm curious; how many people here in forums live near a bunker, AT&T comm site, or other formerly secret or still restricted facilities, here in U.S. or overseas, and what are they? As for myself, I live about 40 minutes from a SAC bunker inside of Bare Mountain in Hadley, MA. The entire facility is now being used to store records from the 5 colleges in the towns around it. so I guess that explains why the entrance road is plowed bare whenever it snows in the winter----they gotta be able to get to those records?! Lots of other cold war stuff here in MA. if you are patient and don't mind driving back roads and hiking. Thanks for any in-put!

[sodjer]

hey rationtin ,i was thinking about this one , and i live about 40-50 miles from most of the uk main deterent bases.HMNB faslane RNAD coulport DM glen douglas try googling that lot try this site there are lots of cold war stuff http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/ there are also a few articles about machrahanish,the longest and remotest runway in europe,a us seals base and suposedly auroa experimental base,it was recently sold,but uncle sam still owns a chunk davy

[rationtin440]

Thanks for info and link, sodjer! Lots of stuff here in western Massachusetts, but it is in kinda remote areas----I was amazed how much stuff AT&T had (and still has). I'm also trying to find info on a British submarine base that was located in a hardened facility on the coast somewhere.

[housil]

We grew up during cold war in the "front line" of cold war. The iron fence was just 1.5 hrs far from us. These "lost places" are still around everywhere around here like almost every underground carpark was an airraid shelter also.
That´s the place I life, this school building is a in-case-of hospital also with 425 places, built 1968 and still in use.
->Here<- a comunication bunker, that´s the place I lived for 30 years and grew up.

There are also parts of highways they can be turned into runways real quick

[sodjer]

the british sub bases you talk of is coulport,with 16 hardened bunkers,by the way i saw declassified russian files at the end of the cold war and the russian way of taking these out was to drop a nuke in the sea 5 miles out and let the tsunami do the work. housil ,a few of the hospitals built on the west coast of scotland near prestwick airport(the air bridge to the us)were larger than needed for the population , and is thought were for us casivac incase of war in europe. davy

[rationtin440]

Thanks for replies guys! Here in Massachusetts, there is an area on one of our highways that was designated as an emergency strip for the ADC (air defense command) when they had F-104 Starfighters and F-101 Voodoos at Westover. Very cool pics housil, and thanks for clarifying about the sub base sodjer.

[Ration Fan]

Hi!
This post is very old but I just saw it and I have something to tell.
Direct under my school, there was a bunker that was a in-case-of hospital too.
http://zeitungen.boyens-medien.de/aktue ... nkind.html
But last winter it was closed.
The community of the town decided to give the beds and mattresses away.
They were shipped to Peru and were given to hospitals there.
I was at the bunker with the junior fire brigade and we brought the things out of the bunker into a truck that brought them to the harbour of Hamburg to ship them.
http://zeitungen.boyens-medien.de/tages ... -peru.html
The whole thing was organized by the freemasons (mysterious organization I know, but this was a good idea).

[rationtin440]

Very interesting info Ration Fan, and thanks for sharing! My dad told me that there was a civil defense hospital unit stored in the tunnels at a state school near my town and that it was from the early 60s before the Cuban Missile Crisis. The crackers and other food items were declared unfit to eat, the blankets were not in very good shape, and of course the medications were long-expired. As for the tunnels themselves, the asbestos and lead shielding and insulation have been removed, two tunnels are full of water, and the other three are being used as emergency shelters and storage for Police and Fire/EMS.

[Ration Fan]

No problem!
The bunker is now being used by our school as storage room.

We have other bunkers nearby too, but these are from the 2nd world war.
Only 1km away, there is the Nord-Ostsee Kanal(Kiel canal).
In the war it was a very important way for the german navy and I think it was attacked by allied planes at the sluices here to the Elbe and north sea.
These bunkers were for the AA.
There are many of them here in the landscape, but they are ruins.

[rekrutacja]

I live some 7 kilometers (ca. 3 miles) from Atomic Command Center, which was strictly secret Warsaw Pact structure in the middle of Kampinoski National Park, not far from capital of Poland. This is a huge underground building with just a small building above. And what may be seen above looks exactly like schools build in the same era - the same size, the same building layout, the same windows and other details. This was never completed, and now is abandoned. You can walk both underground and overground structures. Some interesting eqioment (like power generators) is still left on site. Here is google translation of polish Wikipedia article on it):
http://translate.google.com/translate?s ... ia&act=url