just back from a call-out to the bunker following reports of it being flooded – luckily it wasn’t, just the recently fitted sump pumps doing their jobs. The recent repair to prevent the water ingress, however is doing less well and looks destined to fail in the near future. Also […]
Monthly Archives: May 2023
Visited the bunker yesterday (maintenance on Sump Pump backup power supplies) and had time for a look at some of the lights in the plotting room. They are Holophane lights and have two 100watt bulbs in each (marked Property of H.M. Government) except for some of the High up ones […]
another two slave clocks came to light, one sadly trashed probably beyond repair. The mechanism rotates freely on the face it’s supposed to be screwed to and the rear cover is missing. It may turn up as the bunker has quite a knack for hiding things in plain sight. Decided […]
Dropped in to the bunker today for a spot of BBC filming (should be going out on 9th November 2015). See the results of the filming here Took a little time out to try and find out why one of the self closing doors wasn’t self closing. Turns out one […]
Had a quick look at the furniture in the battery room today and found that the cupboard is George 6th stamped and came via somewhere in Cramlington. The long bench has a fairly large cable attached to the back – can’t work out what it was for. And finally we […]
Looks like we found the culprit for the leak in the roof of the back stairs – that sycamore sapling in the centre of the picture. Was quite a complex measuring exercise and we were already pretty sure that it was this tree but it was within 6 inches of […]
Following a recent break-in we decided to re-fit and lock some internal doors – the pictures below show the restoration of the first of them. It was in a pretty sorry state, lots of the internal layers of the door had fallen out – but they were all still present […]
Last week the nice people at https://www.cleva-uk.com/ donated a wet and dry vac and some air movers to the bunker. I popped in over the weekend and assembled said vacuum. It appears to be a quality piece of kit so a vacuuming session was called for. Did a load of the floor […]
It is with much regret Bunker 13 must announce a breakdown in communication between The Central Grange resident’s management company (The Kenton Management Company) and their chosen residential management agents Brannen & Partners who manage the development on their behalf. This has led to Bunker 13 being locked out of the bunker simply due […]