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Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Boston, Massachusetts
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Rep Power: 377 | Britain’s Secret Underground City
Well this is some years old, but I still found it interesting.  Quote: |
Hawthorn, Wiltshire (also known as Burlington, TURNSTILE or Site 3) is a 35 acre underground city / nuclear bunker that's about 30 metres below the Wiltshire countryside. It has a railway station, BBC studios, government headquarters, telephone exchange, pneumatic tube system, PA system, electricity generators, water purifiers, and sealable air ducts. The living facilities can provide accommodation for up to 4000 people. Hawthorn has since been decommissioned but was an important part of the emergency plans in case of nuclear strike during the Cold War.
|  Eleven steps lead down to the lift and the entrance of Site 3 aka Burlington...  You are now entering Passenger Lift 2 which will take you down to the entrance area on East Main Road...  ...the lift control....  The doors of Passenger Lift 2 open on a lobby in the north east corner of the complex...  Looking west along East Main Road you can see Areas 12 and 13 - the laundry, kitchen and canteen areas on the left.  The sloped airshaft leading into Area 1  Inside one of the larger offices in Area 14. The separate gallery section indicates that this was probably either a control room or a briefing room  In Area 8 is the impressive looking Telephone Exchange...  ...and in a corner there's a stack of unused operator's chairs still in their original packaging.  ...the beds with horse hair mattresses and hot water bottles. The hot water bottles are still in their original packaging.  The X-Ray Dark Room..  Men's Washroom  Men's Washroom  The Radio Room in Area 15..  was the bunker's internal broadcasting system...  ...broadcasting music and external broadcasts throughout the complex.  The laundry...  Seats Still Wrapped and Waiting  Radio Studio for Prime Minister’s Address to the Nation |
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