bunkers are very interesting -the whole premise is interesting
i used to know know a guy who's done some in depth exploring at rudloe manor, he reckons it's all still kept pretty much guarded by secret services, and is protected as rudloe computer centre, even though pictures and experience of 'bunker busters' says different.
'In the 1950s, in response to the Soviet Union's explosion of the atom bomb and subsequent development of the more powerful Hydrogen bomb, the British government began a frantic programme of hardening and building underground facilities to try to ensure the survivability of the government and establishment. The Corsham area, with its already extensive underground areas, was chosen as the wartime seat of power in case of nuclear war.
Utilising the London to Bath railway which run through the base, through the Box tunnel, the government could evacuate quickly from Whitehall to the Hawthorn Central Government War Headquarters. An underground siding was constructed so trains could come straight into the underground base.
All of this was kept secret. News of construction of underground bunkers throughout the country, known as RSGs (Regional Seats of Governments) for local government officials as well as tunnels and bunkers under London had leaked out, causing a major row and acute embarrassment for the government, with MI5 called in to track down the culprits, who were known as the "Spies for Peace" group. No money was being put forward for large scale construction of deep public shelters, confirmed Harold Macmillan in a speech to the Commons.
In fact, the government was secretly building one very large deep shelter for itself. Chapman Pincher, a defence correspondent who claimed to have been taken into the governments confidence, was calling for the Spies for Peace group to face the gallows, but he also stated:
"There is a bomb proof underground citadel for the central government, including quarters for the Royal Family, somewhere in the west."
His informant's vague hint of "the west" was a reference to the Hawthorn Central Government war headquarters, to which the cabinet, central government and defence staffs would retreat early in a crisis, leaving London to its fate as the bombs fell. '
It's apparently a huge complex, very deep, but then there are tunnels to post ww2 tunnels all over the place to protect civil servants etc , there is one down the road from this office, all totally conspiratorial but taken as mythiction, exciting nevertheless.
especially when you consider :
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/,
