Anti Aircraft Operations Bunker

This Bunker was designed as an Anti Aircraft Operations Room with its purpose being to use information collected from early warning radar so that the data was as useful as possible in deciding what actions would be taken in the defence of Great Britain. This system was based on the defence system used during World War Two and as such was pretty much obsolete technology during the Cold War.

The Bunker was constructed in the early 1950s to a standard design. The upper floor above ground level and the lower below ground. The plotting room was the central room within the bunker with this room being on the lower floor with the observation/ viewing galleries on the floor above allowing a perfect all round view of the plotting table.

By 1960 the bunker fell out of use and in the early 1960s it was then taken over by the Home Office. The Home Office allocated the Bunker to a Police Force to be used as their War Headquarters. The Police Force would use the Bunker for 30 years until it was stripped out and sold off.

The Bunker is now flooded due to water ingress with the observation/ viewing gallery floors rotting away due to being wooden, other structures within the Bunker such as partition walls and doors are also rotting away.