Showing posts with label cold war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cold war. Show all posts

30 March 2016

RAF Holmpton

Early Warning No. 2, near Withernsea. Decommissioned early warning nuclear bunker from the Cold War, now open to the public. Looks like an unassuming bungalow from ground level, but go inside, downstairs and along corridors and it's very different. Command centres, control rooms and communications systems on two levels (all underground) with much original equipment still in place. Very interesting and well worth a visit.



29 March 2016

Early Warning



Early warning station of the cold war era, built overlooking the North Sea on the clifftop of the Flamborough headland. The vertical concrete pillars are part of a radar system pointing east and there is also a substantial subterranean network of tunnels and rooms - all now defunct and sealed up.