Scotland's Secret Bunker
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2023
- The story of Scotland's "Secret Bunker" - a Cold War era nuclear bunker 100 feet under a farmhouse in Fife.
ollow my adventures as I travel through the landscapes and history of Scotland. I make quick, quirky and (hopefully) funny content about Scotland's past, people and scenery.
I look for the hidden stories, forgotten people and beautiful scenery of Scotland and try to find the funny in the darkness, obscurity and occasional absurdity of our history.
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Totally understand that feeling. Seeing our childhood in a museum is a blunt and disconcerting reminder that life is too short.
It seems to be rushing by 😅
The fact it's still there and in that condition says it's "suspended" until someone devises and builds something better. The military doesn't like to waste resources - if it'd really been decommissioned, they'd have gutted it to the studs and sent the materials to other bases. (I used to go to RAF Burtonwood (Greater Manchester) with my Dad and one day it was closed. 2 months later, the site looked like the parking lot of a ghost town). 2 years later, you'd have never guessed a base had even been there.
Oh!! Robert …..They still have their BUNKERS alright and that’s for sure, and it’s no way the size to accommodate us Joe Blogs!❤️🇦🇺🏴
You post the most interesting videos! Greetings from Atlanta, Georgia, USA!
Thank you! Greetings from Edinburgh
He does!!! I look forward to these videos 🎉🎉
Interesting!! You tell Mrs. Parker thank you for sharing her husband with all of us.
Will do 😂
Mrs Parker is a Saint to put up with your tangents. Not to mention when you get together with Graeme.
The farm house looks like Appalacian farms in America. But it certainly is a huge marker to bombers saying, "drop here".
Thank you for a look inside the Cold War.
Mrs Parker is a saint! 🙂 I do love a tangent 😂
Love your talks. From Lafayette Indiana USA
Thank you!
I hope you keep doing these. I watch a number of historical channels and you do this so well!
Thank you! Im taking a few months to concentrate on UA-cam so there are a lot more videos on the way
I love your videos. You and Graeme do great on your channels. I spend hours watching you both.
Don’t forget James Parker sculpture…talented family xx
Great video! One day I hope to visit Scotland and see these interesting places. Keep putting out more content, it is AWESOME
Thank you!
Thanks!
I'm having a lot of fun working through your catalog of videos now that I found your channel. This one was great! We had a 'fallout shelter' in my middle school when I was growing up in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania in the mid 70's. The building had been built in the 50's at the run-up of MAD with the USSR. Radiation signs on the doors and big barrels of mysterious content stacked inside... I was never convinced it would have really made a difference about survival!
Anyway, I'm really enjoying your narration and getting to know more about Scotland. Thanks! Cheers from here in Summerville, South Carolina! A long way now from middle of nowhere PA... 😂
Thank you! Mad to think they would build something like that in a school!
That is so cool! Thank you
For the upload.
Thank you
Back in the early 70s, I worked as a telephone operator. The facility was closing down in a year or so as they were switching (see what I did?) to an automated system based in the state capital. The cords were grey, not yellow, but otherwise like in the picture in your video. I didn't work there long, instead going for a barmaid job. It was more fun and better paying.
Mad the amount of work that just disappeared. Looks like a complicated system 😅
@@scotlandunplugged There was training before you were put on live calls. Emergency calls were very stressful. There weren't emergency dispatchers like now, so you had to make a decision which responder to contact. And the (then) radio calls to Mexico took much more time than you were allotted. Your average time per call had to be within a range or you had your supervisor talking at you. Lots of reasons to go be a barmaid. LOL
@@catherinespencer-mills1928 😅😅😅
Hi Robert!
This is sooo cool! I would have been running one of the switchboards. Those are so much fun.
The weird house looks like an old railway station a bit.
But, really, let's focus on the important things...those cowies! They are gorgeous! I wonder what breed they are? Kind of look like Shorthorns, but fuzzier. And that fence. Very tight!
Cheers!
I had to go to civil defense towers and watch for planes with my mother during that time. Good thing I had my coloring books. I was 7
That’s interesting!
Very interesting history. You're such a good storyteller. Love them. So glad your brother recommended your channel.
Well done Bob. Another hrear video.
i guess the next question is where are the new updated ones, I'm sure they must have them, in a just in case it all kicks off again ones!!! thanks for another great one!!
Thank you. Pretty sure they are around 🙂
hey there great video! i think it would be a great idea for you to put your videos on spotify given they are mostly audio based
The farmhouse looks like a CPR railroad station but in stone. I grew up in London Ontario Canada in the late 60’ and early 70’s they still tested the warning sirens, and we had to go under our desks and put our hands over our ears. We were young and believers it would help.
That’s frightening 😳
I really enjoy hour videos. 👍👍😁
Thank you
I remember that time in the cold war. Friday afternoon, double Latin....
Been there. Awesome place. Felt a bit claustrophobic. They done a nice cup o tea tho. 👍👍 🌿🌷🌷🌿
the "So called" farm house is the same as the gaurd rooms at Redford & Cavery barricks in coilington in edinburgh!
Haha. Just round the corner from my house 😂
Ok, I love your videos, your voice, and your awkward sense of humor. Do you know what I love nearly as much? Your purple jacket! You never pan down far enough for me to see the brand (not sure if that's intentional). What kind of jacket is it? I would really like to try to find one :)
Haha. Thank you! It’s a Finisterre Rainbird 🙂
Occasionally they pump the smell of chips and vinegar through from the cafe to help mask the smell of institution. 👍
Interesting. I did get stuck into a BLT while I was there 😂
@@scotlandunplugged BLT baguette sounds great, with a 🍺
I used to use a telephone system like that back in the late 70s! I loved it even if I did keep unplugging people in error when I first started!
Your channel was referred to me by the Hoof GP.
I served at a base with one of these “bothies” when I was in the RAF in the 80’s and 90’s! That’s all I can tell you! 😏
Bothies.😂 Love it
@@scotlandunplugged 🤣😂🤣😂
Smoke and Mirrors.
Oh your talking about today
It’s my fervent hope that we never need to use those bunkers.
The secret bunker is near where I live.
Now could it be made usable again if needed
You sure they didn't have help with the design from the US??
It looks like any number of houses in any number of states over here. Perhaps they made them all look the same so you could find it while wandering around in the nuclear winter??
If you ever get to the states, try visiting an old missile silo complex. That's creepy!! Although if you ever came to the states you wouldn't want to visit any of the states where those complexes were located....
Wyoming, Nebraska, North Dakota...., go to Florida where you can visit the mouse house and watch the fall of civilization up close!!
:))
😂😂😂 The mouse house! Old missile silos sound very creepy. Definitely a few places I’d love to visit in the US!
There is at least one guy who goes diving in the old missle silos. We drove around once looking at all of them in our area of Nebraska and decided there were too many. :)
The other cool thing are ammo plants. Someone built a house in one.
No sound😢
Got it to play!!!
Hi Joyce. Sorry about that. Not sure what happened there. The sound is working now 🙂
Yup but don’t let your daughter work there.
Claustrophobia comes to mind 🤔🫣
My wife really didn't like it! Refused to go back, I think because of the claustrophobia.
@@scotlandunplugged horrible sensation. I do not blame her for a second 😖
All very good but we all payed for it, and now we have to pay to see it. Not me. Children should have free access with parents, it's a history lesson. I wanted to take the kids to see the Discovery in Dundee but couldn't because of the price to enter. Money means more than all els. It makes me sick with disgust.
A feature you may see on Australian-homes is varendas for shade from the sun. 🇦🇺🦘