Asbestos Audit Ltd The Tyne & Wear Heritage Forum North-East Diary1939-1945 Yorkshire Air Museum Subterranea Brittannica Website The UK 1940s Radio Station plays music, news, old time drama and comedy shows from the 1940s along side music from artists past and present who have recreated the music from the era. RAF […]
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The life-span of the Regional War Rooms appears to have been quite short, though details are unknown. By the time that most of the purpose-built structures were nearing completion in 1955-6, the advent of nuclear weapons had led to an enormous change in the perception of the threat posed by […]
Many thanks to Brian Pears for allowing us to reproduce his account of this momentous day. See http://www.ne-diary.bpears.org.uk/index.html for a fascinating North East War Diary. Thursday, 15th August 1940 D348Today was probably the most significant day in the Battle of Britain as far as the north-east is concerned. That is […]
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 […]
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 […]
