Remaining Cold War Relics

 Berkshire County Council building was built in 1982 costing a total of £27.5 million pound to build. The design of the building involves seven low built octagonal shaped buildings and a emergency control centre was established in the basement incase of a nuclear attack . The complex was completed in late 1982 and opened by Queen Elizabeth II. The bunker still remains under the building but now being used as document storage by the company WOOD PLC. The Cold War Era building as we see it today.

  Similar to the Blunsdon Thames Water Bunker in Swindon what has now demolished. There was three divisions of the Thames - West, Central, East, each division would have protected communication centres however the western division was done first but the cold war ended before the other areas were completed. Therefore there was no Central HQ Bunker, all the bunkers would have been autonomous this includes Reading, Blunsdon (Swindon) which is now demolished and Latton in Wiltshire also site of peacetime control centre. These bunkers were just comms centres to manage engineers and recovery, not telemetric control centres for water, All these type of bunkers were built between 1990-1991. Few drone shots i managed to get off the bunker....seems the door is wide open!!!  Flooded no access into the bunker...you can just about make out the first blue blast door into the bunker.

Reading's Top Secret Government Cold War Bunker. Which is remarkably intact in two of the rooms the rest were sadly altered over the years to become suitable for other uses before becoming derelict. Inside it blew my mind, it is very well-preserved, the machines and giant generators are all intact and look like they were in operation recently. As you enter the bunker you go past a rather weird red blast door. Looking at it up close it does not look like it would survive a nuclear bomb, with it being less than 10cm thick. As you head down the corridor you reach a flight of stairs on the right leading down into a flooded basement which had a horrible rotten egg smell to it: I didn't stay to long down there long! As you walk pass the stairs down the corridor I found what was the former Control Room, which now looks to have a false floor added and was full of mouldy books. The windows have been removed, but the frames where the windows would have been are still there. As you go b