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| American Secret Service Badge |
At the end of his lengthy tour of Scotland's Secret Bunker, a gentleman sought Alastair our assistant manager out, having assumed correctly that Alastair was in fact ex military himself
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| Peter & James Lewis |
Scotland's Secret Bunker proudly Hosts The Antiques Road Trip
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| David Thomson |
The ~Re-enactment Soldiers come from far and wide, all over Scotland to Scotland's Secret Bunker.
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Stands for Atomic Weapon Detection Recognition (and) Estimation (of) Yield.
While Gavin was doing some photography and cataloguing in the storage containers, he spotted a cream coloured cylinder lurking under piles of other things. We pulled it out and it turned out to be an AWDREY detector head. This is a remarkable find indeed. We know of only one other in the whole of the UK!
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Long before the threat of terrorism, it was the fear of a Soviet nuclear attack that first led the Canadian government to build an emergency command centre for the prime minister.
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In a tiny room, crammed with gadgets and monitors, is a small button. An officer monitors the equipment 24 hours a day, awaiting a single phone call. On orders, he punches in an access code, takes a breath and presses the small white square. In just over half an hour, a missile carrying 10 thermonuclear warheads will hit multiple targets in the United States. All it takes is one push of the button, located in a control room 33 metres below the Ukrainian countryside.
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PARNAORMAL INVESTIGATIONS
We invite you to join our team of experienced investigators and our medium to communicate with those who were once locked deep underground, in Scotland’s Secret Bunker.
Using both scientific and spiritual methods to communicate and detect spirits.
Are you brave enough???????
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| Cold War |
For decades it waited for a bomb that never dropped.
In a dank and dingy vault underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, a routine structural inspection last week unearthed a veritable Cold War time capsule, city officials announced this week.
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| Gordon Brown and Peter Gordon |
Britain’s former Prime Minister Gordon Brown makes his first visit to Scotland’s Secret Bunker after 17 years!
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DebRA is the national charity working on behalf of people in the UK with the genetic skin blistering condition Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB).
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Angela Pike, Celebrated her 26th Birthday
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| This is a wallboard containing the Receiver Speech WB1401 |
Paul's back up to Scotland to look at our R4 type bunker in Edinburgh, and re instate our Royal Observer Corps equipment under Troywood.
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| WB1400 Early Warning System Control Point |
Paul is back again to work on the technical exhibits, the WB1400 system was run last time and now it is a fully functional working exhibit. Far more equipment has been discovered in the bunker after a methodical search of the site begins. The sites Synchronome master clock is investigated for potential restoration.
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| FREE Internet At the Bunker |
Paul sets up Free Wi-Fi access in the bunkers canteen and takes a look around Barnton Quarry’s grounds with his family.
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| New Storage Trend 800 3 high! |
Paul organised us to get into container number 4 which is where the remaining MSX equipment taken from the store at Cultybraggen several years back. The container is quite dry and has not suffered from as much condensation as number 3 so we anticipate the equipments condition to be very good.
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| Our SX2000vs System |
The Bunker acquires an SX2000 electronic telephone exchange similar to those used in the ECN (Emergency Communications Network) of the 1990’s and enlists the help of a Mitel expert. Paul is Onsite working on the technical exhibits.
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| Original Equipment |
A 1950 telecommunication enthusiast, Paul, contacted Scotland’s Secret Bunker looking for an Autex Telex Manager, we had numerous containers full of communication equipment donated from the Scottish Office from past nuclear Bunkers. Much to Paul’s delight he found exactly what he was looking for. In Exchange for this equipment he gave us a week of his time to restore some of our original equipment, enabling the public to see and use the original communication systems used in this bunker.
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The team are pleased to announce a forthcoming investigation in Scotland’s Secret Nuclear Bunker.
The Bunker team have been exceptionally helpful by inviting us to carry out an overnight investigation in the very near future.
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| East Fife Ladies FC |
East Fife Ladies FC unveil their new strip sponsored by SCOTLAND’S SECRET BUNKER
Photograph courtesy of RAF Leuchars
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| Military Police Stopping a vehicle at the entrance to the Secret Bunker |
What’s Going On at Scotland’s Secret Bunker…………..!!!
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| Cottage above ground, Bunker Underground |
We are always looking to improve our displays to add to the level of information available to visitors and welcome donations of items related to the bunker and Cold War history. So if you have unwanted uniforms or artefacts lurking in the attic why not give us a ring and donate them to the Bunker!
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| A.S.V.A. Website Award 2002. |
Scotland’s Secret Bunker were delighted to be announced as the Winner of The Best Website Award 2002.
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| An overall worn by members of the WRVS, donated together with several other items of clothing. |
2002 has been a great year for loans and donations to and from Scotland’s Secret Bunker.
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Our second Armoured car Arrives.
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| Raf Police: Terry, Lex, Rom |
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These photos were taken at the front of the guard house at Troywood, now named Scotland’s Secret Underground Nuclear Command Bunker at Troywood during 1953-1955
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| RAF Anstruther: Clockwise: Terry Cooper, Harry Holtby, Brian Prichard and Johnny Berry |
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These photos were taken in and around Anstruther during 1953-4 and show some of the RAF servicemen who were stationed here at Troywood.
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Exercise Great Heart was one of a number of war games held here at the Bunker and ran from the afternoon of Friday 6th May to Saturday 7th May 1988. Great Heart simulated the action that would have been taken had the Cold War turned hot and forced those involved to confront the realities of Nuclear War.
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| Hiroshima and the Atomic Bomb |
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For decades now, the creation and use of nuclear weapons has been one of the most fiercely debated issues worldwide.
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