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Run by Volunteers and powered by Alaveteli. Built by mySociety. We provide commercial services through our wholly owned subsidiary SocietyWorks Ltd Menu Close. English Cymraeg. Sign in or sign up. Search Submit Search. Tom Bryant 6 April Unknown. Yours faithfully, Tom Bryant. Link to this Report. DE-Access to Information, 14 April Dear Mr Bryant Thank you for your recent enquiry. DE-Access to Information, 22 April At a few sites the aircraft post was more humble consisting of railings either round a grassed area or a low concrete plinth.

Where the position was not suited to the new fall-out role the post would be re-sited, sometimes several miles away. The first prototype underground post was built at Farnham, Surrey in and consisted of a 15ft entrance shaft which gave access to two rooms, one containing a chemical toilet and the larger 15ft X 7ft 6ins monitoring room which was furnished with canvas chairs, folding table, shelf, cupboard and a pair of metal-framed bunk beds.

This became the standard furniture for all underground posts although some were customized to suit individual needs with more cupboards and tables, Dexion racking, comfy chairs, bedside curtains and at one, in Hertfordshire a large office desk!

A ventilation shaft with two louvered vents was located alongside the entrance shaft with a second air shaft at the other end of the room. Lighting was provided by a 12 volt battery located behind the monitoring room door. With a few exceptions, where the post was constructed within existing buildings, this layout remained the same at all locations. After exercises during and showed the inadequacies of the existing monitoring instruments, the Fixed Survey Meter FSM was introduced in The indicator unit was mounted on the table and connected to the surface by cable running through a pipe on the end of which was fitted the ionization chamber.

Unlike its predecessor the Radiac Survey Meter No. The Bomb Power Indicator BPI was introduced at the same time, consisting of a baffle plate mounted on a steel pipe at the surface. At the base of the pipe, in the monitoring room, an indicator unit with bellows was connected to a pointer. The third piece of equipment was the Ground Zero Indicator GZI which consisted basically of a pinhole camera with four holes facing the cardinal compass points. A piece of photographic paper was placed in-front of each hole and in the event of a nuclear burst, the image of the fireball would be projected through one or more of the pin holes.

From these, the bearings and elevation of the burst could be calculated. The GZI was mounted on a convex metal plate, usually located on top of the vent shaft next to the entrance but it necessitated somebody emerging into the open air to retrieve the sheets of photographic paper! By , the RAF no longer required the service of the ROC in this capacity and the few remaining overground structures were abandoned.

Early aircraft observation posts were little more than sand bagged emplacements or wooden huts and these rarely leave any trace, but during the war more substantial buildings of concrete or brick were built and these sometimes survive alongside the new underground monitoring room. Post war aircraft observation posts were sometimes built of brick but many sites received the standard Orlit Posts The Orlit post was constructed of pre-cast concrete panels forming a rectangular building 10' by 6'8".

Between and , the UK government ordered the construction of 1, monitoring posts at a distance of about 15 miles apart. Thirty-one larger HQ and control centres were also built.

All the sites were closed down when the ROC was stood down in , as the Cold War came to end with the disintegration of the Soviet Union. According to the ROC Association, the vast majority of the monitoring posts were demolished, left to fall into disrepair, or vandalised and then flooded with rainwater.

About 70 have been preserved by private individuals, trusts or heritage agencies. A handful are open to the public on a regular basis, including posts at Arbroath in Angus, Broadway Tower in Worcestershire and Veryan in Cornwall.

Surviving examples of the first posts to be built can be found at Rushton Spencer in Staffordshire and Dersingham in Norfolk. He said even rarer than the monitoring posts were surviving examples of the basic, above-ground Orlit A posts which the ROC used from the end of World War II until These were for plotting flights of Russian aircraft in the event of World War III breaking out, but were abandoned when long-range nuclear missiles became the threat and work on underground posts began. A pipe extending above ground had instruments on it to measure the blast wave.

The posts did not have a sophisticated ventilation system, the air coming down from the outside was not filtered.