Bikes and Bunkers

[jim haseltine]

Sort of a bunker - the remains of Tollerton ROC post.

Rather than start a Bikes and bridges and bunkers thread, this is killing two birds with one stone type thing, the anti-tank barrier pillars at Aldwark toll bridge, with a gratuitous shot to include the bridge deck (also appears in Bikes&Bridges).

 

[Frankenorange]

We have Bikes and bunkers and bikes, bridges and bunkers so here is All Terrain Bike and Air Raid Shelters in a wood near me. These were part of RAF Zeals, in Wiltshire.



In a hole in the ground there lived a cyclist. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with just the ends of cables and the smell of degrading elastomers, nor yet a dry bare, sandy hole without a saddle to sit down on or an energy bar to eat: it was a cyclists-hole, and that means comfort.

 

[Dface]

RUCK MACHINE GUN POST: e28489 (Extant)​

Description: Possible Ruck Machinegun post now stripped of its concrete slab and sandbag covering or possible a crew shelter for the nearby observation post. Should get a couple more later on after tea.

 

[Dface]

Got a few in this evening. And some anti tank blocks as a sweetener.

 

[Jonny69]

This is at the air raid shelters at Brooklands in 2016.

 

[bikeworkshop]

With period appropriate bike!
Nice

 

[bikeworkshop]

On an abandoned section of the old a40 - recorded as "reported"

SO 52680 15668

Further info on identification:
http://www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk/category/pillbox-types/

 

[Gtpulse]

In respect of the ROC observation bunkers it blows my mind to think of the three volunteers who trained to sit, watch and report in the event of a nuclear attack. Tried explaining it to my kids as their grandad and great grandad were ROC volunteers, it’s lost on them!

I’ll be looking out for them on my rides now!

 

[jim haseltine]

This might help https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/
One ROC site south of York now lies buried by the A64 while its replacement has been built over by a bungalow - the below ground bunker was retained with access through a hatch in the hallway floor and was used for storage by the householder but the building was subject to a major extension about a decade back so condition of the bunker is now unknown.
Edit:
Looking at the map I've found a few more bunkers I didn't know existed. One is hidden in a small copse of trees at the top of the first climb on one of the regular evening training routes we used back in the 1980s. Not that any of use would have noticed it back then as we were concentrating on holding wheels.

 

[grantoury]

Not quite a bunker, but fitting for this thread nonetheless, I think. An air watchtower. Used in the fifties and sixties to watch the sky for Russian warplanes. This one is located seven km near my home, and someone I know has lived near it all his life, according to him it was never in use. Others say they were definitely manned. All of the online info is in Dutch, but here is the official website anyway.

https://luchtwachttorens.nl/