Forgotten Royal Observer Corps Cold War (ROC POST) 

Excellent video!

Just discovered your page. Really interesting. Going to binge watch them all now and look forward to seeing more videos.

Great video as always Thanks

Great video and one of your best finds to date? Great stuff dude, have a great weekend!

looking forward to your next video guys. just keep your safe at all times

Another good one thanks.

Excellent video. Many thanks for the insights. I recently visited the ROC regional HQ in York (operated by English Heritage), which was an incredible insight into how these posts integrated within a network.

Brilliant video. Like a time wrap in perfect condition that one. Thanks for posting

Very nice video. I am amazed at what is still there. Its good to know that there are still hidden gems of history like this still around.

Excellent video, thanks 🙂

hello from America. thank you for not disturbing history and taking anything! it is a shame people feel the need to vandalize and steal

If I had one of those things on my land, I'd treat it to a lick of paint and live down there. My own personal batcave. Bit of nice furniture, a decent computer setup, 4 poster bed, you got it made. I'm guessing that wifi might be an issue though. And I'm hoping that the fire blanket would be the only asbestos item. How spacious was the main room down there?

Nice to see one in such great shape. Hopefully it will stay that way.....thanks for the video.

loving this video great to be able to see a bit more of what those bunkers looked like before the mindless vandals smash the place up i now look forward to your films every Friday keep them coming please

Thanks for sharing. Always enjoy your videos. Was the power still on there?

nice videos it's the first time I've seen them thanks.

Great video. Really interesting.

Nice one mate!

A 'platinum' gem to be sure......amazing!!!

brilliant video Ian, great to see a lot of original features. The owner of saltend roc has been in touch with me again - just trying to arrange a mutually convenient time to visit now lol........

Great find bro!

Yees, nice little location! Many things in such good condition, good exploring :)

I love the video! Can't believe mostly everything is still intact and no one has destroyed the bunker also I love the ginger beard!

yeah cool best wishes to you all regards sargey keep up the good work guys

Very nice video.

Ive only recently discovered the existence of these all over the UK. Its crazy that I used to pass these manned bunkers up to 1991 in fields and didnt even know there were there.

Great video and that is an awesome place! Was there more rooms and was this place larger than can be seen on the vid? Thanks. Fantastic find!

If anyone near Bristol , UK wants to see an ROC post there is one open in Farmborough free to look at this weekend as part of English Heritage Open Days. Enjoy!

Cool vid bro....

Nice one

I visited several of these while they were operational in my time as a GPO (now BT) engineer. The purpose of visiting was to test the land line phone that each had. The phones, as you no doubt know, had a WB, (Wireless Broadcast) system on them that would be used at the time an attack was imminent. A series of bleeps would precede a spoken voice message from what I can remember. Going down one on your own after tramping across a muddy field could be a bit daunting for a 20 year old, especially in the summer when your eyes went from bright sunlight to pitch black as you looked down the shaft, some of which could be quite deep! I only recall one of them being painted white inside though, which made a vast difference, although I only visited about 4 or 5 of them in all over the years. First thing to notice inside was the chill and dank smell that always greeted you, and the atmosphere always seemed to get creepy as you sat there listening to the WB eerily bleeping away as part of the test. I can remember looking around and seeing the wall charts that gave an estimate of the distance from the blast - all very chilling when you realised this was no game back then. And yes, you did tend to hit your head on the bloody counterweight on the way back up.

excelent find i hope the next one is gona bee exciting ass this one

I was a observer in lampeter back in the 70's, the bakalite speaker sat on the table and used to beep once every few seconds, god forbid it was a constant beep as that meant a nuclear strike was imminent.

That's amazing.

Best one i've seen

its good noone has trashed the place or stolen the stuff out of there keep up the good work all the best

cool vid I did a couple ww2 bunkers few weeks ago but nothing like this :)

awesome video noticed u like your German army kit lol. me too sargey

I have been watching a few royal observer corps videos and i just a few questions. Who is going to hear the sirens and see the flares to notify the local inhabitants of a bomb being deployed. when there seems to no one or hardly anyone around these locations ? did they ever give get three to four weeks worth of ration packs in case of a nuclear attack and what was they? how often do you have to empty the chemcal toilet and would it of last the three to four weeks with three people in the bunker. if a bomb was deployed and you have to lock the hatch and close the air vent. how long do you think the air is going to last inside the bunker. Did they ever give you radation suits and breathing apparatus. what was they doing in the bunker while waiting for the attack. was you still taking readings from the equipment. why wasn't the bunkers lined with lead or fitted with air filter unit to purify the air and keep exposure to radiation to a minium. i think if the bomb ever was deployed and went off in britian they wouldn't of lasted very long in the bunkers. i think they was actually monitoring the radiation from the new built nuclear power station being built around britian from the 1950's onwards. why was there so many built. ( this is my conspiracy and i think it needs investigating. i don't think the treat of a nuclear war was that great to do this on the scale they did. ) but the whole thing makes me think why do this at all. it's totally bonkers and eccentric. i just find it baffelling that they were just waiting there, waiting for something that never happened. unless it happened in a test exersize training situation. I could understand if they were monitoring the weathers for the met office. but they never mention that. Totally amazing and totally baffelling as well.

What part of the country are you in as there are lots of ROC posts and other interesting RAF ruins in Lincolnshire

i have a location suggestion u should check out u may not have the acsess to this random thing its down a cliff side at flambrough head light house u have to do down a narowish path to notice it but theres a wooden fence to prefent any 1 fallling i remember seeing it from a long long long long long long time a go other then that its all i ca remember seeing wat looks warish

Nice video any little animal here ? Rats etc ?

a good one. glad it never got to be used.

did a 7 year stretch in the roc.had some great fun in our bunker.(56 post)

Holly shit, bloody good condition that is.

What did the toilet look like? Thanks :)

How did Ian meet/know Chris?

be nice if the UK would keep a few of these bunkers maintained for tours. tell the history of them, show the new generations how things were back then.

Cool video hope no one finds this place and vandalizes it .

Polyfilla?? Wow how things have changed? I have seen Jif? Cleaning product in one of these bunkers? Its now Cif?

What documentary are you talking about? I'd like to watch.

I would love to find one of these, must be one close to me... I know where one is near Stirling but that's been capped for years

this is the IKS FACTORY ?

Iks you should come check out the ww2 radio station cave in my area

weren't you in there before?

Good condition of the bunker

It's in incredibly good condition, I would expect a lot more water and decay!

its sad in away that alot of the ww2 history has been smashed up and recked like alot of the forts you go to thay should be open to the public and looked after for the future all the best

Why would they work with a dim light deep underground

are you on Facebook mate :)

@6:10 the box you found, i have found this page that might help you with it all.....>www.ringbell.co.uk/ukwmo/Page212.htm

If your last name was Styreen, would you name your kid Polly?

isnt it illegal to wear a army jacket with a country flag on it

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JcQsbsQUDmA.html Here the one i found

isnt it illegal to wear a army jacket with a country flag on it