Ed's Bunkers

Woodsy and Preppers (LOL),

Here's a couple of bunker shots from days of yore. 

The first is the interior of my old bunker at Zweibruecken AB (closed in 1991). 

When not in use during exercises, the bunker was my office and classroom. It had formerly held the Univac 1050 computer and when that was removed, they put me down there. 

One half of the bunker was office space, and the other half was my classroom.

The second shot was taken in the town of Rittershofen, FR where my brother fell. 

It is located just outside the town on the intersection of two main roads.

From Bunkerville Las Vegas

Ed

Bunker Down

Despite the Cold War and Second World War receding into the past their relics seem to be topical again and specifically, shelters.

On the BBC Travel show last night the presenter was taken through so-called ghost Underground  rail stops in Berlin to a truly vast subterranean fall out shelter with huge rooms containing hundreds of bunk beds. It could feed two thousand people and even had it's own air filtration system. Long abandoned, it looked to be in working order to me but the Regierung have decided it's too dear to fix up shelters like these, of which there are many in Germany.

Unterwelt Berlin 

A few years back the Missus, Bill and me visited a similarly complex set-up in York, not too far from Moonbase. Unlike the Berlin shelter, the public can visit the York Cold War Bunker with the National Trust owning it. 

National Trust

It was fascinating to see the web of miniature shelters spread out across Yorkshire, including a tiny military two-manner literally up the road from our house! Recently sold to a private buyer, you can still see old pics of it's interior online.

https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/upton-roc-post/

When I was a kid the neighbours had an air-raid shelter in the garden. A remnant of WWII, they kept their two big smelly dogs in it! There were bunkers out on the Ribble estuary too I seem to recall. 

Here's one near Preston Docks as was.

Tony Worrall

I probably made one for my Action Men in the garden. After all, it was only twenty years since the end of World War Two when I was five.

Little bunkers pop up in the British landscape over the place and some much older fortifications stem from much older conflicts including entire sea-forts in Wales left behind from the Napoleonic Wars! 

As I write I'm keenly aware of perhaps the biggest surface bunker I've ever seen. It's literally a hundred feet from where I'm lead in bed writing! As big as a block of flats, the Kuniberg bunker is gargantuan reminder of the futility of war and the paper-thin lessons of history. Massive, monolithic, forbidding, its right next to our bakery! 

Recklinghauser Zeitung

Having just watched Fallout on Prime I suppose shelters are on my mind. Having said that, a quick dose of the global News and the worlds trembling silos I feel like hunkering down too sometimes.

Have you got a bunker near you readers or a relic of some past struggle?

A SHELTERED LIFE

This strange construction is the capped entrance of a cold war two-man underground shelter not too far from Moonbase. 

A sobering structure to say the least, it sits on top of a ridge commanding superb views of a big sky.

For further reading you can go here.

Have you a cold war relic near you?