Incredible images reveal underground bunker hidden in plain sight for 70 years
Images of a bunker that was camouflaged for more than 70 years have been released as it goes up for auction.
The shelter was originally built as an observation point for three people in the event of a nuclear attack but has been abandoned for years – until now.
It was disguised well with the landscape less than 10 miles away from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
The interior is covered in graffiti, and the paint is peeling off after years of neglect.
A ladder descends into the bunker, which offers some cupboards and a table, but no bathroom.
Those who hope to buy the property on Church Road, Repps with Bastwick, will join a village of just 400 residents if they decide to call the odd building ‘home’.
Auctioneers Brown & Co have referred to the one-bedroom build as a ‘unique conversion opportunity’.
The land on which the bunker sits is owned by a local farmer.
The listing reads: ‘Rare opportunity to purchase a piece of British post-war history.
‘This particular site was one of many observation posts built during the 1950’s and was designed to provide protective, but extremely limited accommodation, for three observers in the event of a nuclear attack.’
Many shelters were built as Royal Observer Corps (ROC) Underground Monitoring Posts, most of which were done by 1965.
A large number of the early underground posts were decommissioned in 1968, with the last posts abandoned when the ROC was stood down in 1991 following the end of the Cold War.
The particular shelter on auction in Norfolk has a guide price of £10,000 – £20,000, with the buyer also being required to pay a range of fees and taxes on top.
It comes as one underground bunker manufacturer reported a ‘huge uplift’ in construction requests this year.
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