FULL TOUR - Chancery Lane Bunker (Kingsway Exchange)

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@andrewthompsonuk1 2 года назад

This video is going depicts lots of very interesting history. I hope it stays online forever.

@ACELog Год назад

In the 1970's, I worked for a week down in the Chancery Lane complex (formerly Kingsway telephone exchange). They were installing "Motorola Metropage" racks, and I helped with the mains wiring these. Since then, they've been made largely obsolete by the advent of mobile phones. Seems strange how what you saw is largely deserted - it was a clean, tidy area when I was there. Also thee was a bar area, that you don't seem to have visited - unless I missed it.

@muldoony 9 месяцев назад

I've been in that bar area! Nice, v. surreal

@james1787 2 года назад

So fascinating, thank you! This bunker is massive! I find it so interesting how much of this infrastructure was built..

@rydermike33 2 года назад

Wonderful video, thank you. In the old computer room where I worked, we had a Cambridge chart recorder for temperature and humidity of the room itself. Fascinating stuff.

@kerryknight2560 Год назад

The DEC Zeta PDP11/73 is 1986 vintage. It was scrapped in the mid 90s when we moved out of the site.

@dans2015 2 года назад

Beno brother you got guts I would freak out keep up the brilliant work 💯👍

@gigteevee6118 2 года назад

Impressive explore, beyond Hidden London 😎

@raychambers3646 2 года назад

Can you imagine the effort involved in getting all this kit down there ? It's not exactly lightweight.

@techtinkerin 2 года назад

Loving your work dude, that was fascinating ❤️😊

@benolifts 2 года назад

Thanks

@skullmangaming1413 2 года назад

A almost hour-long video? It isn't my birthday 😂

@thecooldude9999 2 года назад

At 48:35 those are lightning arrestor blocks, they have a carbon piece that arcs to ground when it is struck by lightning to protect the equipment. They connect to the switch through wiring, nothing plugs in the front. I don’t see any remains of switching equipment there, looks like the only thing remaining is the protectors and the MDF, which both facilitate connection to the exchange.

@johnrauner2515 2 года назад

The lifts sound like they are really well maintained. Which is surprising considering the rest of it looks like it's been left to rot.

@wisteela 2 года назад

I absolutely love everything about this place, and if I could, I'd buy it and live in it. That Zeta Systems computer is based on a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP/11. I don't know what model though. Those ports would have connected to serial terminals and printers. Those tape drives are disk pack units. They were like removable hard drives.

@benolifts 2 года назад

I wanted to do an overnight challenge in here, but the problem was that the air quality wasn't good enough.

@thecooldude9999 2 года назад

Not sure what the specific indicator at 36:50 is for, but we use similar ones in telephone exchanges to indicate alarms. For example, a blown fuse would sound an alarm and light up the FA light for a specific area or piece of equipment, that way you can know exactly what is wrong at a glance.

@mushroomcraft 3 месяца назад

15:00 that reflection would scare me

@raychambers3646 2 года назад

All the dials at the end monitor the cable pressurisation system.

@LBSiUK 2 года назад

Who made those lifts (the working ones)?

@johnrauner2515 Год назад

47:01 It's only a matter of time until somebody smashes their way into the trunk tunnel. And I bet it isn't alarmed apart from at the main entrences which means once you get through the wall into it from one of the deep level shelters, you can explore the whole thing with out anybody knowing you're in there.

@tonyharvey4569 Год назад

Careful. If I had commissioned the bricking up of a trunk tunnel I would have had remotely monitored vibration sensors installed on the other side of the wall knowing that someone with the right tools could get through that wall in a few hours.

@dundeemink3847 2 года назад

I think the hand crank was for starting the engine only.

@MemeReviewer Год назад

I can say that those Zeta PCs are probably from the 1980s, that digital logo relates to the DEC corporation, very big in the 1980s

@frankieAudio 2 года назад

Hey ::) Thank you for the cool bunker exploration. I wonder, if these lifts still get technical service by some government contractors.

@benolifts 2 года назад

This bunker is still maintained. Looking at the sign in sheets the bunker is patrolled every week. The lifts are still maintained. The bunker is ready to be put to use if a nuclear attack happened.

@frankieAudio 2 года назад

@@benolifts Oh, that´s weird cause that in a war situation, military personal couldn´t live there right now

@benolifts 2 года назад

In its current state it isn't usable, but it wouldn't take much effort to put it back into use.

@frankieAudio 2 года назад

@@benolifts But all the installations are rusty and the walls got moist

@benolifts 2 года назад

The equipment was to run a telephone exchange. If a nuclear attack was to happen I don't know if the government would want to reinstate the exchange or just use the bunker as a general control center. This one would be used by government rather than civilians because it is connected to the trunk tunnel. If an attack was to suddenly happen they wouldn't be able to get the bunker into use suddenly. The bunker is not really in a standby ready state, it is more in a mothballed state where it could be put into use with minimal effort. The filtration systems and generators would probably be replaced. The government hasn't done this as there is no reason to think there would be a nuclear attack any time soon.

@AndrewG1989 2 года назад

A bunker underneath Central London. Shame that the lift doesn’t work anymore. And the thunderous sound of the Central Line 1992 Stocks passing. No wonder the bunker is so close to the Central Line. Plus as you said 15 metres deep. I bet you are thinking of Geoff Marshall lol.

@benolifts 2 года назад

The bunker is 40 meters deep

@AndrewG1989 2 года назад

@@benolifts Ah right thoughts so 😂

@williamhuang8309 2 года назад

@@benolifts 40 metres deep, equivalent to a 15 storey building! (Geoff Marshall has a joke on that)

@AndrewG1989 2 года назад

@@williamhuang8309 Oh yeah he does actually. Good one 😂😂

@capcompass9298 Год назад

Is there anywhere in the system where a crane could have been brought from the surface as a friend of mine claimed?

@thecooldude9999 2 года назад

That computer appears to be a Digital Equipment Corporation (stylized DIGITAL) pdp-11/23. You’re right about the terminal part, you’d have the computer in a central location and hook a bunch of terminals to it for people to use. It looks like the brown rack you showed right after is a pool of dial up modems. Those would probably be used by people to dial into the system using their own modem remotely.

@thecooldude9999 2 года назад

Just saw the part where you get a close up of the modems with the names on them. I bet each one of those would be connecting to a different telephone exchange, so in an emergency, they could manage them from the bunker.

@doma6713 2 года назад

Are these somewhat maintained and by who?

@benolifts 2 года назад

It is kept "mothballed", which means it is maintained to a condition where they could recommission it in the future. The bunker is owned by BT, which despite BT being privatized, is still used as a cover up for government military and secret service activity. Just take a look at the many BT buildings around the country. Notice how these buildings are designed with architecture deliberately made to be a forgetful as possible. These BT buildings are government command centers, switchboards and infrastructure centers.

@joaquinfernandesferreira2593 2 года назад

20:35 ALARM GOING OFF!!!

@jameshunt2141 2 года назад

thats a seriously big mercury arc rectifier

@bcadventure2015 Год назад

That relay freaked you the fuck out lol

@terrysmith1509 Год назад

The fire alarm keeps getting vandalised. I go down there quite a bit

@joaquinfernandesferreira2593 2 года назад

9:27 Lovely stinks!!

@sircampbell1249 10 месяцев назад

Should have turned out the lights on your way out

@thecooldude9999 2 года назад

Found a video of this bunker when it was fully operational: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rjy32oGQ8Co.html

@ChrisElison 2 года назад

42:53 😅

@arthurand1006 2 года назад

At 15:00 looks like someone or something was spying on you 👀

@albandy5200 9 месяцев назад

Yeah eyes moving 😃

@andrewoverland2884 Год назад

Green Crocs?????

@JJørgensen Год назад

All these bunkers need to be renovated and prepared. The cold war is definitely back now.

@thebunkerhunter 2 года назад

Excellent commentary much better without that sicko secretvault

@flamingofatale5353 10 месяцев назад

No mice??

@gabenlazerbeam289 2 года назад

How did you get in?

@johnd3274 2 года назад

Sealed

@levigaming-1 2 года назад

Bro that was the “alien” from one of your videos

@benolifts 2 года назад

That alien was the one in Belsize bunker. There are a lot of these aliens in different bunkers. You need to be careful of them in case they wake up and chase you around the bunker!