Great Offley ROC - Hertfordshire Group - Sept 2012

Visited the Great Offley Roc this morning.

Opened July 1959, closed September 1991.

It sits in a very overgrown corner of a field next to one of the main Chiltern footpaths. There is evidence that the post is visited regularly due to the gap in the bushes and trampled nettles.

The post is shut and the clasps are rusted solid. You can see into the post through a hole cut into the hatch where the lock should be. The post has water in it but I'm not certain how deep.

Rabbits are compromising the mound around the access shaft to the point that you can see under one of the corners of the hatches concrete skirt.









Not sure what this pipe is for?









Through the hole in the hatch.

Interesting, don't think it would be too difficult to get the clasps freed up, might just have to go and have a look at this one. . As for the extra pipe, where in relation to the BPI pipe is it ?
Bit more information on the post HERE looks like there may be a LOT of water in there

Looking at a cutaway diagram I now think the pipe was the bomb power indicator. The ground around the post is being shifted by rabbists so there was more pipe exposed then I was expecting.

Shame it does look very wet?

How do you find out who owns a ROC post?.

I've just been checking online and you can hire a pump for £40 a day.