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Booby Trapper
- Old Salt
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I worked in a few of these ROC posts over 20 years ago, Scarey places when you got down there. There used to be a good supply of chocolate bars though. I suppose I can say this now as it's not used any more, the post on the hill outside W.Kilbride which over looked Hunterston Power station contained a warning system called a WB1400 (look it up) which was served by overhead cables on poles. I don't think it would have lasted long if the Russians had decided to go nuclear.
Worked on that stuff a bit, and its predecessor WB400
It wasn't expected to survive an attack - when the warning had been sent it would be every man for himself. You would have links to regional controllers if you were lucky - though what they would have controlled and what they would have controlled it with was anybody's guess.
I think most of the plans for all this were based on atomic (Hiroshima) sized weapons and never caught up with thermonuclear scales of destruction.
It'll be a fascinating story when all of the history of that period comes out.
It wasn't expected to survive an attack - when the warning had been sent it would be every man for himself. You would have links to regional controllers if you were lucky - though what they would have controlled and what they would have controlled it with was anybody's guess.
I think most of the plans for all this were based on atomic (Hiroshima) sized weapons and never caught up with thermonuclear scales of destruction.
It'll be a fascinating story when all of the history of that period comes out.
I know it well.
Back in the mid-nineties I got planning permission to build a transmission mast in the "garden" using concrete foundations left over from the 60's.
The site was used by Farnborough boffins for kit that was going into the TSR2, scrapped by the man in the Gannex.
30 years later a structural bore test showed the concrete was perfect.
Back in the mid-nineties I got planning permission to build a transmission mast in the "garden" using concrete foundations left over from the 60's.
The site was used by Farnborough boffins for kit that was going into the TSR2, scrapped by the man in the Gannex.
30 years later a structural bore test showed the concrete was perfect.
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oldgaffer1
- Able Seaman
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- Joined: Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:07 pm
- Boat Type: Cutter rigged Cheoy Lee Bermuda 30 Ketch.
- Location: Dartmouth
Your intrepid correspondent viewed said property in November. Stretching the truth, it could be described as a Compact and Bijou Hobbit-Hole. The interesting thought was that, as it is (as I understand it) technically a residential building it therefore by-passes local planning restrictions on development outside of the village envelopes and as a result one could apply for planning permision to extend which I would do by excavating into the seaward slope of the hill and creating a semi-sunken house with views out over the sound. These thoughts were interupted by Ayesha who led me away to a darkened room while I skated briefly back into sanity and tiptoed away from the whole idea....
Fitting a fat peg into a square hole:
The Entrance Hall:
Studio accommodation for three:
Fitting a fat peg into a square hole:
The Entrance Hall:
Studio accommodation for three:
