Lyndon Green PR1 Bunker, Birmingham

[Riskybex]

Lyndon Green was known technically as a PR1 (protected repeater station, type 1), comprising a two-level bunker with heavy blast doors.

The bunker was built in 1953.

It is semi-sunken, with the main distribution frame and active equipment on the ground floor and power plant and ventilation system in the basement below ground.”


Lyndon Green is on one of the main trunk telephone (and television) cable routes between London and Birmingham, having a number of important circuits passing through it. It was constructed at a time when all repeaters (amplifiers) used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes), which required far more electrical power than the solid-state amplifiers of today.

These days the bunker remains derelict and pretty much a empty shell with only a few bits worth photographing!

 

[Sectionate]

Looks alright tbh

 

[BikinGlynn]

Nicely covered been here several times but was sealed last time I wend. dosent look like its changed much.

 

[Hayman]

With Putin threatening to nuke the enemies he himself has created, some estate agent should be marketing the PR1 as a 'desirable residence'.

 

[Electric]

Nice to see it again. For me access was always when you called in passing by and least expected it. Up until the mid-2010s it was still kitted out with a fair bit of equipment and very interesting to walk around.

 

[BikinGlynn]

Nice to see it again. For me access was always when you called in passing by and least expected it. Up until the mid-2010s it was still kitted out with a fair bit of equipment and very interesting to walk around.

Nice, have you got any pics from back then?
It was one of my earlier explores & have been 3 or 4 times but would still go back.

 

[Electric]

Nice, have you got any pics from back then?
It was one of my earlier explores & have been 3 or 4 times but would still go back.

No photos from that time I'm afraid. Had a Nokia phone back then, no camera on me. Got a few pics from later revisits after First Demolition had cleared it in 2018. I'm pretty thankful we've got great reports and decent photos (don't ask me about how to take good pictures) on here though to act as an archive, that and the brilliant Subbrit photos.