Burlington; The UK's underground city

[Pav89]

The future OCUK HQ? I think so . Problem is...we'll need an unlimited supply of mustard...and bleach just for asim18.

 

[Cosimo]

The future OCUK HQ? I think so .

It would make a rather good theme park.

 

[Amp34]

Do you think they will ever tell us.

In about 40 years time when they "have a better one, with a gecko!"

 

[kip02]

It makes you wonder how good the one they have now is.

We'd know about it. It would be private financed, overbudget and late.

I do think its very cool that such place exists mind, would love to have a tour around it.

 

[Carl]

This has completey amazed me! Can you imagen being one of the people that helped build this?

Here's a really good website for information

http://www.burlingtonbunker.co.uk/

 

[Orcish-Horde]

It makes you wonder how good the one they have now is.

With the tunneling worm train things they have now they are probibly under the Irish sea, English channel or north sea. Not that many of us would ever get to use them if the need ever arised.

 

[PermaBanned]

How much do they actually want for it?

 

[Doz007]

How much do they actually want for it?

shall we all chip in a couple of quid!?

 

[PardonTheWait]

 

[d3moliti0n]

I was just about to post saying its basically a Vault from Fallout (and I'm guessing this bunker is an example of what the games were based on in the first place). That is awesome.

 

[Guitarman0]

Cool. I didn't know about this

 

[PermaBanned]

Seriously, how much do they want?

 

[Rameses]

I want my own nuclear bunker, I really do.

 

[Kainz]

So this is where we go when Black Mesa reproduce the events seen in The Mist? I'm in!

 

[Begbie]

So this is where we go when Black Mesa reproduce the events seen in The Mist? I'm in!

No where they go, we get left to die!!

Looks awesome, amazing to think what must be out there just now!

 

[PermaBanned]

I'm not kidding. How much do they want?

 

[kwerk]

the underground site was designed not only to accommodate the than Conservative Prime Minister, Harold MacMillan, but the entire Cabinet Office, civil servants and an army of domestic support staff.

I wonder what 4,000 civil servants would have done if their actually was a nuclear strike? Wouldn't all the pleb citizens be left for dead? And it sounds like it was just for the conservative cabinet? They would let Labour and everyone else get vapourised

I suppose they would come out after 3 months with waving white flags and ask for new jobs in the Soviet government

 

[Marky]

That does look awesome!

 

[Cosimo]

I'm not kidding. How much do they want?

£5m.

The site has a notional value of £5m but there is a catch. It is available only as part of a private finance initiative that involves investing in the military base on the surface above.

Source

I’m sure GD will raise the cash, minimum donations of £100,000 required. Send your donations to me, so who’s going to start the ball rolling?

 

[Lil old me]

I wonder what 4,000 civil servants would have done if their actually was a nuclear strike? Wouldn't all the pleb citizens be left for dead? And it sounds like it was just for the conservative cabinet? They would let Labour and everyone else get vapourised

I suppose they would come out after 3 months with waving white flags and ask for new jobs in the Soviet government

I suppose letting the Socialist Labour party into the bunker during a war with communist russia wouldn't be the best plan

The rest of the population, well yes they would just get left to it pretty much. A while ago there was a discussion on here about nuclear war and someone mentioned a docudrama produced in the 1980s which actually followed the series of events which would be involved in a nuclear war, in Britain, against the USSR. I cant remember what it was called but it was TERRIFYING. I couldnt actually watch to the end, it just made me feel sick. It was all too real and made me all too aware of how close we really came.