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Subterranea Britannica

Subbterranea Britannica documenta underground structures - from WW II and the Cold War.  Here are images from various shelters in London:

Nick Catford wrote, in August of 2004,

After nearly eight years and thousands of miles the survey of 1563 ROC underground monitoring posts finally came to an end on Monday 16th August when the last post site was visited at Port Ellen on the Island of Islay off the Scottish west coast.

The folowing set are of disused Royal Observer Corps posts - they’re all  artifacts of the Cold War, acording to Subterranea Britannica - none has a construction date early than 1957; they were all closed in September of 1991:

Note that none appears hidden - at least not based on these relatively recent images. Nor does any have a gun port - or multiple gun ports, which could create a field of fire.

Subterranea Britannica: the  study and investigation of all man-made and man used underground places.

I’d like to see the tunnel that Sherlock Holmes discovered in the “The Red-Headed League.”

BoingBoing interviews Leonard Henriksen, maker of high-end shelters

In “How Much Bunker Could Tom Cruise Get for $10 Million?,” Joel Johnson of Boing Boing americansaferoom.jpg Interviews, Leonard Henriksen, maker of high-end shelters:

While Tom Cruise may not be building a bunker under his Telluride estate—his spokespeople have denied it—it got me thinking: How much underground bunker could one get for $10 million?

Before he put his mind to designing underground survival shelters, Leonard Henrikson, a gentle Oregonian proud of his Swedish descent, built presses for radioactive waste for the government. But after 9/11, there was again a market for underground survival bunkers. “You couldn’t build them fast enough,” Henrikson told me.  Continue reading →