Grantham ROC Post, February 2019

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Paid a visit to this ROC post. Easy access which probably explains why it's been set fire to and has the hatch smashed off. Real shame that some idiots find amusement in such moronic behaviour. Burnt out but still some original features:

Love the official signage:

46426752044_5cbd545ea4_b.jpgGrantham ROC 01 by HughieDW, on Flickr

40185071023_a57ccc702f_b.jpgimg0944 by HughieDW, on Flickr

47097740512_1b979c35b1_b.jpgimg0943 by HughieDW, on Flickr

47150095571_220e789121_b.jpgimg0942 by HughieDW, on Flickr

46426650794_5b210134a3_b.jpgimg0941 by HughieDW, on Flickr

32208216107_c2c3eeeca7_b.jpgGrantham ROC 02 by HughieDW, on Flickr

47150195721_be4ff8c82b_b.jpgGrantham ROC 03 by HughieDW, on Flickr


Hatch counter-weight mechanism is still part present:

46236004985_3acd93356b_b.jpgGrantham ROC 04 by HughieDW, on Flickr

Obligatory chav burning out the ROC post:

32208192387_9fbd10e02c_b.jpgGrantham ROC 05 by HughieDW, on Flickr

Facilities also gone...

32208185997_ea6b2a9596_b.jpgGrantham ROC 06 by HughieDW, on Flickr

46426722114_2f463205be_b.jpgGrantham ROC 07 by HughieDW, on Flickr

33274861378_ea2d2d030c_b.jpgGrantham ROC 09 by HughieDW, on Flickr
 
Sorry guys but forgive my ignorance but what is a ROC and what is/was it for? :shame:

Rather - Who were the Royal Observer Corps? A body of men, who in WW2 observed the skies and reported incoming Raids. Come the Nuclear Age they were stationed in deep bunkers (such as pictured here), equipped with fall out detectors and would had detected nuclear fall out and its wind blown direction of travel. Looking at the overall installations now, they were obviously there to give the 'Powers That Be' enough warning to scuttle to their blast proof hide holes, leaving the natives to their own devices.
 

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