Report - Riseley ROC Post - Bedfordshire Group - June 2010

[Hal_cHase]

Solo explore

Site: Riseley ROC Post & Aircraft Observation Post

Opened - March 1964
Closed - September 1991

This visit was more of a recon than a full visit and as such was done on my way home from work with none of my gear and wearing only a t-shirt. As you can see from the pix this entire site has been consumed by nature, something I kind of like to see which is why I photographed it as is, instead of coming back tooled up. The t-shirt was an epic fail as the stingers here are 8ft high and the brambles twice that, in fact this compound is so densely overgrown you could walk round it without even knowing there was anything in there....I never did see the air vent, I would have been stung to death trying to find it. Water levels are the lowest here for a very long while with approx 10ft of the shaft visible (it's been up near the top before). I also had to extract fast as I heard voices coming towards me from the other side of the hedge so apologies for the crap pix....no tripod, falling down rat holes and legging it didn't make good photos.


Yes, somewhere in this jungle is a ROC Post!

 

[markxplrz]

i cannot believe you saw this place ! i used to live in riseley about 30 years ago as a child .
i used to go up there even then . i recognised it instantly after all these years !!!!
there was also a derilict house along the high steet .
great find !

 

[m7jsd]

i cannot believe you saw this place ! i used to live in riseley about 30 years ago as a child .
i used to go up there even then . i recognised it instantly after all these years !!!!
there was also a derilict house along the high steet .
great find !

Same here, I lived on the high street and kicked around up at the post . I was fortunate to go into the bunker many moons ago..