York - 20 Group ROC HQ - (York Group) - 2008

Went here today with mickeylove, mexico75 and their families. And what a fantastic place it really is! Also met theoss and trousercowboy along the way.

Date protected accommodation opened: 16.12.1961
Date closed: 1992

The bunker has been fully restored by English Heritage to its condition at closure in 1991. It looks a little strange now that housing has sprung up around it!

The main ops room contains 1960's colour psychology to calm and help the occupants concentrate during the dark days of a nuclear war.

The building also contains an awdrey unit, one of only 12 in the uk, designed to pinpoint the bombflash and remotely forward the details onward.

Externals:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...RK20HQ0013.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...RK20HQ0067.jpg

Radiator room for generator:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...DIATORROOM.jpg

Airfilter room:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10.../AIRFILTER.jpg

Airlock door:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...hq/AIRLOCK.jpg

Decontamination (three showers cleaned off 90% of the fallout dust)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...TAMINATION.jpg

Canteen:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...hq/CANTEEN.jpg

Table of items in the canteen:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...hq/ROCEQPT.jpg

Telephone exchange:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...ELEXCHANGE.jpg

Generator:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10.../GENERATOR.jpg

Plotting room:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...OTTINGAREA.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...%20hq/TOTE.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...0hq/AWDREY.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...0%20hq/BPI.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...0hq/FSMGZI.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...q/POSTLIST.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10.../PLOTTABLE.jpg
Dormitory:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10.../DORMITORY.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10.../BUNKITEMS.jpg

Exit:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/10...%20hq/EXIT.jpg

Add your pics here as mine are a bit hit/miss.

Really good to see these mate.

i was stood around the silver vw in the corner, shame i didnt spot you lol. we did the 2.30.

Sweet, if you ever find yourself down south, head to new haven fort, they have a very good ROC museum

This looks fantastic, wish I had got myself over there..

LOL, was trying to guess if there was anyone i hadnt seen before.

Aparently shipton is being restored by the bunker trust, good news for those of us who thought it was going to be lost forever as a computer storage facility.

I think it was refered to as the bunker trust.

Yup the van was sax.

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Originally Posted by Mexico75

Was that theoss who turned up as I was leaving?

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Think he was around york anyway.

Good stuff, shame I was in London.... :(
Maybe next time :thumb

Yep it looks good mate, sounds like you all turned up...sadly at different times :p

This place looks ace.... They've done a top job on it.
Are any of those pics of the colour psychology wotsits?

The main ops room colourscheme is just that!

Ahhh.... righto then.

looks mint :) really should have come but my boss decided i was working lol

i thought the nice lady said dont post any of the pics on an internet sight ? i must have been the only one listening:ohmy:laugh . good to meet ernie and bro , also finally mexico and lady , little lady and son with extremely good lungs but unfortunatly no mex mk2:thumb

fantastic photos good work.i was over at skipsea, wish id known there was a trip on.

Can you believe it, i live no more than 200metres away from the HQ, and i still havent visited! Seems everytime i turn up, there is no tours or i come too late, oh well. If im back in time tommorow, i should get a look in. They say its the best restored bunker in the UK...

had a look on last tour today, good 5 quid spent there! Brilliant to finnaly get a look in, after living by it for so many years!!!!

nice one demps you should have given me a ring :)

Cool, i might have a look here. It'll be cool to see it restored. Its on Street View too, i wonder if any of the cars parked there belong to any of you lot? :D