The third post I have visited on the South Downs in recent weeks.
They are not the best explore but once located, the history is interesting.
My uncle was a member of the Roc many years ago and disappeared away on odd weekends on "exercises".
He is a fat man and as a kid I wondered what these weekends away were all about, exercise not being in his vocabulary.
A weekend in a post would be tolerable but any more than that would be a total nightmare, even without a fat man using up all the air.
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I would not have been a calm observer if they dropped the bomb.
"The end of the Second World War brought with it the new and terrifying prospect of nuclear war. In Britain the public would have had a mere four minute warning of the approach of nuclear missiles and it was the job of the Royal Observer Corps to warn the public of the impending attack, report the explosions and plot the path of the deadly nuclear fallout." (Stolen from Roc remembered.com)
Fortunately we live in a different world now and the usefulness of these has diminished with the demise of the USSR and series of disarmament talks running up to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1987: which created a global ban on short- and long-range nuclear weapons systems, as well as an intrusive verification regime and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty signed 1991 that limited long-range nuclear forces in the United States and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union to 6,000 attributed warheads on 1,600 ballistic missiles and bombers.
With only 6000 warheads the world was safe.
Although there are several states that are not signatory's to the most recent nonproliferation agreements low numbers of weapons and no direct threat to the UK make a need for future monitoring posts unnecessary. (As long as nobody takes the piss out of Kim Jong-un's ridiculous haircut) :crazy
The Post was locked on arrival.
The usual chemical toilet is missing.
The view from the door, a homemade coat rack.
A totally unseen new view of a Roc post.
The essential "don't throw it away box"
A two hour timer.
The eyewash is dated 1991, the toilet paper is soft and the dead vole is stiff.
I have seen the photographic paper in other sites I have visited. Must be a monitoring aid ?
There must have bee some kind of monitor on the wooden round disc.
In a nuclear holocaust the GPO would be available to fix the phone just by dialling 151.
In the event of a prolonged lockdown the well known mutilation effects of the worlds second nuclear war would affect any observers exposed to radiation.
This is why the lid is lockable. I locked it on leaving to prevent marauding.
They are not the best explore but once located, the history is interesting.
My uncle was a member of the Roc many years ago and disappeared away on odd weekends on "exercises".
He is a fat man and as a kid I wondered what these weekends away were all about, exercise not being in his vocabulary.
A weekend in a post would be tolerable but any more than that would be a total nightmare, even without a fat man using up all the air.
:I would not have been a calm observer if they dropped the bomb.
"The end of the Second World War brought with it the new and terrifying prospect of nuclear war. In Britain the public would have had a mere four minute warning of the approach of nuclear missiles and it was the job of the Royal Observer Corps to warn the public of the impending attack, report the explosions and plot the path of the deadly nuclear fallout." (Stolen from Roc remembered.com)
Fortunately we live in a different world now and the usefulness of these has diminished with the demise of the USSR and series of disarmament talks running up to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1987: which created a global ban on short- and long-range nuclear weapons systems, as well as an intrusive verification regime and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty signed 1991 that limited long-range nuclear forces in the United States and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union to 6,000 attributed warheads on 1,600 ballistic missiles and bombers.
With only 6000 warheads the world was safe.
Although there are several states that are not signatory's to the most recent nonproliferation agreements low numbers of weapons and no direct threat to the UK make a need for future monitoring posts unnecessary. (As long as nobody takes the piss out of Kim Jong-un's ridiculous haircut) :crazy
The Post was locked on arrival.
The usual chemical toilet is missing.
The view from the door, a homemade coat rack.
A totally unseen new view of a Roc post.
The essential "don't throw it away box"
A two hour timer.
The eyewash is dated 1991, the toilet paper is soft and the dead vole is stiff.
I have seen the photographic paper in other sites I have visited. Must be a monitoring aid ?
There must have bee some kind of monitor on the wooden round disc.
In a nuclear holocaust the GPO would be available to fix the phone just by dialling 151.
In the event of a prolonged lockdown the well known mutilation effects of the worlds second nuclear war would affect any observers exposed to radiation.
This is why the lid is lockable. I locked it on leaving to prevent marauding.
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