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roomthreeonefive

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I looked at this site over a year ago and planned to do a shoot the following week. Turned up early the following week and found the gate blocked by big rocks and the wholes in the fences mended. Thought I would go and check it out again, some of the rocks are still there and the wholes in the fence have re-appeared. It's a massive site with over 70 buildings originally and 45 still standing. I have seen a post for here from a few years ago but since then the road into it has been re-done possibly for re-developing although what for is anyones guess. It looks like the internal roads have been recently with a road sweeper.

found this o the net about the site and saw the Kites

Built around 1955 as a Remote Weapons Store for RAFWittering after the airfield changed use over several years from a Fighter Station to a Bomber Command Station, now decommissioned and awaiting ‘Adaptive Reuse’,Collyweston ESA is a fascinating site set deep in the woods with an eerie silence across it, occasionally punctuated by calling Red Kites soaring high above the treetops

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nuclear bunkers
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lots more pics on my flickr page
https://www.flickr.com/photos/123648605@N06/sets/72157645532157960/
 
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Nine nuclear bomb fissile core storage buildings, constructed in September and October 1952 and designed by the Air Ministry Works Department as part of the United Kingdom and NATO strategic airborne nuclear deterrent.

The Fissile Core Stores are across the road (on Wittering Base), not here. What you found was Collyweston ESA :)
 
Spotted that one on Google Earth and wondered what sort of state it was in. Thanks, Jim
 
When I was sitting in my car just before leaving a guy walked passed and disappeared perhaps that was him

Look for a small dome tent in the second or third Igloo (bottom left corner of site).

There's a lot of young fox cubs in the bunds at the far end by the Fire Pool too if your quiet :)
 
Be very careful here. This site is still under the protection of the Official Secrets Act 1911-1939 and is regularly patrolled.
 

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