Soviet Threat, Hack Green Nuclear Bunker 2017 - Show Report
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- A Cold War event at Hack Green Nuclear Bunker featuring our display of 1950s and 60s British Army equipment and other displays covering British Civil Defence and other NATO and Warsaw Pact forces.
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I'm just here to make some small corrections vis a vis the History of the bunker, it was an MOD site since the second world war (or War Department as was) where it was a Starfish site (decoy for bombers) for Crewe Railway station, towards the middle of the war it was taken over for use by Mersey Radar as a ‘Ground Controlled Intercept Station' and became RAF Hack Green under Searchlight Command. Hack Green was one of 21 fixed radar stations in the country and one of only 12 fully equipped with searchlights and fighter aircraft control.
following the war and when a replacement was needed for Chain home/G.C.I. it was decided to use the site for the ROTOR programme and that when the bunker we now have on site was constructed, an R6 (semi sunken Bunker) equipped with high powered radar to monitor the skies and act as a link in the Chain for the UKWMO (United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation) The station was closed in 1966, it’s role having been transferred to RAF Lindholme in south Yorkshire.
Following the scrapping of the ROTOR Programme, in 1976 the abandoned site at Hack Green was purchased from the MOD by the Home Office Emergency Planning Division to be converted into a protected seat of government for Home Defence Region 10:2 there was no building works when it became an RGHQ just a conversion which involved putting in things like water storage, Air filtration etc at an estimated cost of 32 Billion pounds, the RGHQ became operational in 1984 where it carried on in that role until a rearrangement of the Civil Contingencies planning in the 1990s where HG was sold off to Rod Seibert who still own the place today and run by his daughter Lucy as Director/Museum manager.
hope you don't mind the corrections
Dave.
Camp Neutral/Hack Green Social Media Volunteer.
How do you get to find out about this type of event?
Generally word of mouth myself but they can be found on facebook and through google searches, I think there are sites which compose lists of reenactment and military history events up and down the country each year.
Cool vid I recommend kelvedon hatch is Essex as it's bigger and for government during Cold War.
+planes124 I've been to Kelvedon Hatch too, a fascinating place as you say.
Its got a Darker" side to it in a way they had cyanide for prime minister and other high officials if there was Mutiny and the entrance tunnel is long which is easier to defend against and the cardboard coffins. Cool place if I had money I would love to own it but still a great place.
@@planes124 could you elaborate more on the cyanide? Sounds a bit odd to me
Just went there yesterday for the 2018 soviet threat event
We were there again with a small Korean War display.
Can anybody tell me what is the name of the song in the intro. Thanks.
+Dhanendra Wiryohutomo It's the Colonel Bogey March.
Awsome bro wich British army regiment are you a reenacter in ww2
+Matt Attack For WW2 events I cover all sorts, generally generic when doing an early war display as very little insignia was worn.
If I went to a reenactment of world war 2 in ww2 gear but I wasn't part of any groups do you think that's aloud
Matt Attack
Why would they kick you out? Even individual reenactors are allowed to come.
cool video hack green is haunted supposedly most haunted went to it
+MILITARIA COLLECTOR 2000 Thanks! I had heard of the haunting but I don't believe in that stuff.
o right i do but i dont trust most haunted since there fakings things past months
Nonce
Went there today the medical room is fucking terrible as in nasty