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This visit was set up with members of the Airfield Research Group, many thanks to "Tocsin Bang" and "Winch it in" for the company and banter on the day.
Magic mountain was a bunker built during the cold war at USAF Alconbury, it was built for the 17th Reconnaissance Wing as there command bunker and
a location to decode inteligence data from the TR1 aircraft. This is the only one of it`s kind, and its the only bunker I`v had to drive in too....
So let see a few pictures.
The first shot is of one of the entrance doors, its the smaller of the two.
Looking in through the main entrance, the large brown structure is a steel and concrete portcullis which leads in to a very large decontamination area.
Enterance to the bunker proper, last set of blast doors.
To the right of the first set of blast doors and portcullis is this extra heavy blast door, its a personnel entrance in to the decontamination suite.
The next series of pictures are all taken in the decontaminati suite, there is a large main room and off of this are a line of 4 corridors each of which
is again split in to smaller and smaller decontamination rooms, each room has showers and also each room is fitted with an intercom system so that
anybody inside and comunicate with the decontamination operator.
The Upper floor of the bunker is now just a mass of empty rooms they all vary in size
But there is one room which is much much bigger, you can`t get a real scale of the size of this room but it`s massive. There is an emergency exit in one wall it`s also protected by a
very heavy steel and concrete blast door.
The lower level of the bunker is where the plant rooms are, there are rooms for the main electrical switch gear, Air conditioning, Air supply for
keeping the bunker at a constant over pressure, water supply.
These are the very high pressure air tanks that supply the bunker to keep it at an over pressure.
This is the Air con plant room.
Well thats just about it, the last shot is in one of the outside corridors, the iron steps lead up to the surface, inthe shot one of the emergency
exits can be see along with more over pressure valves.
Well thanks for looking, all comments are most welcome, there are more pictures on my FlickR page if you want more bunker goodness pop over
to http://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/
Cheers Newage
This visit was set up with members of the Airfield Research Group, many thanks to "Tocsin Bang" and "Winch it in" for the company and banter on the day.
Magic mountain was a bunker built during the cold war at USAF Alconbury, it was built for the 17th Reconnaissance Wing as there command bunker and
a location to decode inteligence data from the TR1 aircraft. This is the only one of it`s kind, and its the only bunker I`v had to drive in too....
So let see a few pictures.
The first shot is of one of the entrance doors, its the smaller of the two.
Looking in through the main entrance, the large brown structure is a steel and concrete portcullis which leads in to a very large decontamination area.
Enterance to the bunker proper, last set of blast doors.
To the right of the first set of blast doors and portcullis is this extra heavy blast door, its a personnel entrance in to the decontamination suite.
The next series of pictures are all taken in the decontaminati suite, there is a large main room and off of this are a line of 4 corridors each of which
is again split in to smaller and smaller decontamination rooms, each room has showers and also each room is fitted with an intercom system so that
anybody inside and comunicate with the decontamination operator.
The Upper floor of the bunker is now just a mass of empty rooms they all vary in size
But there is one room which is much much bigger, you can`t get a real scale of the size of this room but it`s massive. There is an emergency exit in one wall it`s also protected by a
very heavy steel and concrete blast door.
The lower level of the bunker is where the plant rooms are, there are rooms for the main electrical switch gear, Air conditioning, Air supply for
keeping the bunker at a constant over pressure, water supply.
These are the very high pressure air tanks that supply the bunker to keep it at an over pressure.
This is the Air con plant room.
Well thats just about it, the last shot is in one of the outside corridors, the iron steps lead up to the surface, inthe shot one of the emergency
exits can be see along with more over pressure valves.
Well thanks for looking, all comments are most welcome, there are more pictures on my FlickR page if you want more bunker goodness pop over
to http://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/
Cheers Newage