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<blockquote data-quote="RobbyJ" data-source="post: 370072" data-attributes="member: 65272"><p>From memory (a long time ago) I can add some detail to some of the letters in the first map I posted.</p><p></p><p>X/Z - Electrical rooms with big transformers</p><p>Y - Air conditioning/boiler room</p><p>R/T - Was a big metal turntable you could turn a vehicle round on so it could drive back out of the entrance tunnel</p><p>E/T - Is the emergency exit. A long 100-150M upward sloping tunnel that leads to the exit in the 2nd photo at the start of the thread</p><p>Bay 1/2 - I think were full of beds, bedside tables and some storage cabinets</p><p>G - Looked like the office for whoever the commander of the site was. Had a big desk and a big locked safe</p><p>H - Bedroom with a double bed for the commander</p><p>Briefing Room - Big planning room with lots of desks, bakerlite phones and a huge OS map on the end walls</p><p></p><p>The thing I never understood in retrospect was how the air system worked, it looked like a closed loop with no external vent shafts that I ever found despite walking the entire hill above the site. I also couldn't find any antennas or mountings of where antennas may have been.</p><p></p><p>There was an over ground facility that was about 50-75 years from the emergency exit where the big house that you can see on Google Maps now is. This had quite a large medical facility with quite a lot of beds, circa 20. It's also where the cafeteria area was with quite a big kitchen. There were no obvious cooking facilities underground. It's weird that there were significant sleeping facilities, toilets etc yet no eating facilities, no real storage, water storage or air filtration, no gas tight doors or anything apparently that could maintain an overpressure like a real bunker. I guess the beds must have been there more for training purposes to simulate what it would have been like while running exercises?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RobbyJ, post: 370072, member: 65272"] From memory (a long time ago) I can add some detail to some of the letters in the first map I posted. X/Z - Electrical rooms with big transformers Y - Air conditioning/boiler room R/T - Was a big metal turntable you could turn a vehicle round on so it could drive back out of the entrance tunnel E/T - Is the emergency exit. A long 100-150M upward sloping tunnel that leads to the exit in the 2nd photo at the start of the thread Bay 1/2 - I think were full of beds, bedside tables and some storage cabinets G - Looked like the office for whoever the commander of the site was. Had a big desk and a big locked safe H - Bedroom with a double bed for the commander Briefing Room - Big planning room with lots of desks, bakerlite phones and a huge OS map on the end walls The thing I never understood in retrospect was how the air system worked, it looked like a closed loop with no external vent shafts that I ever found despite walking the entire hill above the site. I also couldn't find any antennas or mountings of where antennas may have been. There was an over ground facility that was about 50-75 years from the emergency exit where the big house that you can see on Google Maps now is. This had quite a large medical facility with quite a lot of beds, circa 20. It's also where the cafeteria area was with quite a big kitchen. There were no obvious cooking facilities underground. It's weird that there were significant sleeping facilities, toilets etc yet no eating facilities, no real storage, water storage or air filtration, no gas tight doors or anything apparently that could maintain an overpressure like a real bunker. I guess the beds must have been there more for training purposes to simulate what it would have been like while running exercises? [/QUOTE]
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