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| Stuball |
Cold War GlasgowA further detailed thread pending but for now, here are some recent pictures of Glasgow ROC post.
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| kev |
What are the green things Stu? |
| Stuball |
Access hatch and air vent to an ROC post... a kind of listening/early warning bunker |
| kev |
Superb .. What the hell were they doing there ? |
| Stuball |
There was 1500 of these posts all over UK and Ireland during the Cold War |
| kev |
Plus meant to ask and sorry for my ignorance .. what is ROC Never heard of it |
| Stuball |
Royal Observatory Corps
Much further detailed article coming soon, honestly 
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| kev |
Look forward to it..love that kind of stuff |
| dickyhart |
Heres a link to where they all are in the UK, a lot of them dont exist now or a knackered so check its in order before you go visiting it.
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/cgi-bin...c.pl?cgifunction=Search&Pic1=*.jpg Theres a guy who used to be on HG called(Graeme) purplegrum, he owns one near cambuslang, its the gilbertfield one if you want to search the database. and has been restoring it. he does visits to it if you email him. |
| kev |
Saw one today in a field just off the M876 
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| Stuball |
They were everywhere along with the early warning systems |
| dickyhart |
`Torrance House' utilised a former Antiaircraft Operations Room near Torrance House in Calderglen Park, East Kilbride, the site being much more densely surrounded with trees when it was operational. This building, known until 1983 as Scottish Western Zone SRC was led by the Zone Commissioner (at one time believed to be the Lord Provost of Glasgow). It contained the usual operational posts of Fire, Police, Military, Health and had a BBC studio. In addition, the ROC serviced a Scientific group who supported the Zone team on radiological analysis. ROC teams plotted bursts from BB / FF teletype streams from 25 Group at Ayr and possibly from Dundee (Craigiebarns) and Oban and also provided Comms support.
from subrit |
| Stuball |
The building still stands and isnt too far away from the shopping centre. It was closed in 1996 when Strathclyde was split up |
| escotregen |
Stuball great that you have started this thread. I love all this stuff about the crazy notions about how the UK was supposedly going to 'fight' and 'survive' a nuclear war in the cold war age.
I recall returning to Glasgow in the late 70s and going to a couple of the Royal Observor Corps meetings in as I quite fancied joining them. They were a freindly, wonderfully idiosyncratic, bunch of folks dressed in RAF type uniforms for the meetings; uttely convinced and dedicated to helping ensure their country fought and survived the nuclear war - oh and they were completly barking
To my lshame, I was put off joining by the fact that so many of them were so old to my younger eyes. Shame, because as I was to later learn, these are the very people who hold so much of the evidence and memories that we should be carrying over into the different generations. |
| glasgowken |
Fascinating, has anyone here been in there ?
Would it have actually survived a nuclear war ? |
| Stuball |
To the best of my knowledge, nobody has been in the Glasgow ROC post as it is owned privately by a couple and very well locked.
In the event of nuclear strike in Glasgow, I dare say it would survive the initial blast as it is quite far out of the city centre. But as for the fall out and the aftermath, I'm not so sure. There was equipment for measuring the fallout and the blast radius. They were group in 3s to triangulate the position and fallout path |
| dickyhart |
If you ever been to visit the secret bunker in St. Andrews, When you walk down the tunnel into the bunker itself. Next to the blast door, just befor you enter, There is an ROC post. They where not allowed to enter the bunker at all, even in the event of war. Imagine how you would feel, those two big doors slamming and leaving you there at the bottom of a 150 foot tunnel. Great eh!! |
| dickyhart |
http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/...ts/AABatteryLimekilnburnViewfield
This is a link to a cold war AA battery near hamilton. they have now been converted to houses. Not to be confused with the ww2 AAbattery in the conjioning field folks. |
| ward |
ROC Post GlasgowHi Stuball, If you want to see inside the post message me I am the owner. I will be in Glasgow for 3 days next week. I also own the ROC / UKWMO Caledonian Sector HQ Bunker at Craigiebarns. |
| Stuball |
 PM sent
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| cybers |
looking FWD to seeing the results already.... |
| chewable_madness |
Only got here 4 months late... Loving the info here, just to throw my 2 cents on the fire, didn't most of these old cold war bunkers/ROC's get sold to mushroom farmers becuase its dark and the perfect place to grow them?? |
| Stuball |
I think thats a bit of a myth. They arent very big for a start |
| chewable_madness |
Perhaps not the ROC's, but maybe the actually fallout bunkers that were dotted about?? Or do they not exsist and I've just been sold a totally fantasy? |
| Stuball |
Hmmm..... fantasy I think. The only fallout bunkers were the government and council war rooms which many were still used after the cold war. The Strathclyde one survived until 1996 and is an empty shell in East Kilbride. The dundee one is under private ownership and unlikely a mushroom farm and the Edinburgh one is burnt out |
| chewable_madness |
Yeah it seems a bit of a fantasy now I think about it, there are surely cheaper dark rooms to grow their mushrooms in, thank you for that very informative, just while we're on the subject since being privatly owned it appears the Dundee one has become haunted... http://www.spiritnights.co.uk/index_4.html haha |
| cybers |
Livingston one was resurrected for a time as a nightclub then as a storage unit and then demolished.
Was in it a few times though long before i was camera oriented... |