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The Bunker was constructed in 1953 as part of the RAF ROTOR air defence programme becoming an R4 Sector Operations Centre for the Metropolitan Sector of Fighter Command RAF. The Bunker was constructed to be a hardened three level R4.

In 1967 it became the Sub Regional Control for the Home Office in the London Region. By 1973 it had become a Sub Regional Headquarters and again in 1985 became Regional Government Headquarters 5.1.

The bunker coils sustain hundreds of people for up to three months at a time due to having its own water supply, air conditioning and heating, generators and different type of radio and communication equipment.

Within the hierarchy of the wartime government the bunker would’ve only came below the Hawthorn Central Government War Headquarters based at Corsham but above the four London Group Controls.

By the early 1990s the bunker was no longer needed it was decommissioned and sold back to the land owner who has converted it into a Cold War museum.