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Post by brillbilly on Aug 31, 2010 23:18:36 GMT 10
remember this picture? its not a bunker,it is the top of a lift shaft its called ........ passenger lift shaft west1  |
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Post by Wes on Aug 31, 2010 23:20:49 GMT 10
OK got you Brill.
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Post by Wes Gear on Aug 31, 2010 23:32:38 GMT 10
brill is there a chance they have icbm silos on this property as well?
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Post by brillbilly on Sept 1, 2010 0:12:58 GMT 10
brill is there a chance they have icbm silos on this property as well? no not a chance,they are held 50 miles away at Burghfield,nr reading and watchfield 40 miles away in west berkshire;) |
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Post by Wes Gear on Sept 1, 2010 1:39:31 GMT 10
what is it's unofficial charter brill? say like area 51.......it's public knowledge that it is used for testing new aircraft........or so they say. was just wondering what the british government's unofficial stance is.
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Post by alienbeing on Sept 1, 2010 2:49:29 GMT 10
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Post by brillbilly on Sept 1, 2010 19:52:26 GMT 10
what is it's unofficial charter brill? say like area 51.......it's public knowledge that it is used for testing new aircraft........or so they say. was just wondering what the british government's unofficial stance is. its hard for me to say what public perception is but from what i can tell,i would say 90% think its just a goverment house 5% would know its a huge military complex and 5% like me would know that rudloe is part of a huge interlinking network underground that links in to the NSA if ya wiki rudloe this is sort of the mainstream version The station was built on top of quarries from which Bath Stone had been extracted, in the 1930s some of the tunnels were converted for use as the Central Ammunition Depot for the United Kingdom. The vast caverns had some 2,250,000 square feet (209,000 m2) of space, divided into many smaller chambers. An area was used for No. 10 Group RAF Headquarters, named RAF Box. A communications switching centre was also established. Also within the tunnels the Ministry of Aircraft Production built an aircraft engine factory, to act as a fallback should the factories in Bristol be damaged through bombing. Despite being built the factory was not actually used. [edit] After WWII Following the end of the Second World War the site continued as both a communications hub and home of various administrative units. No1 Signals Unit was established to manage all UK terrestrial communications infrastructure for the RAF. With the launch of the UK Satellite Communications System, Skynet in the late 1960s the site of Controller Defence Communications Network (CDCN) was established. A spacecraft operations centre was established by 1001Signals Unit, the spacecraft operations organisation, on a small enclave within the site, known as Hawthorn. The headquarters of the RAF Provost and Security Service (P&SS) was established in the Northerly of the three sites although on the closure of the station moved to RAF Henlow. RAF Rudloe Manor was the location of Headquarters Southern Area Royal Observer Corps (ROC) from 1952 until 1980 when it was relocated to Lansdowne near Bath. Co-located with the ROC was Headquarters Southern Sector United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation responsible for the now defunct Four-minute warning in the event of nuclear attack during the Cold War. [edit] Co-located units The site was adjacent to Basil Hill Barracks, the Headquarters of 2nd (National Communications) Signal Brigade, HMS Royal Arthur and the Royal Naval Stores Depot (RNSD) Copenacre. The station was closed in 2000 with the Defence Communications Service Agency (DCSA) assuming responsibility for the sites. The northerly site was closed and sold with DCSA taking responsibility for the remaining two, RNSD Copenacre, which had closed in 1996, and the Barracks. Administrative responsibility for the consolidated site is now undertaken by Joint Support Unit Corsham. |
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Post by brillbilly on Sept 1, 2010 19:53:26 GMT 10
thanks,i got it already but others may not  its a great sight |
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