Kelvedon Hatch secret nuclear bunker

Kelvedon Hatch secret nuclear bunker - darkometer rating : 5 - A former Cold War government nuclear bunker in Great Britain , and now privately owned and accessible as a kind of eccentric (if somewhat scruffy) museum. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > photos More background info: It was in places like this that members of the British Government were supposed to seek shelter if World War Three had broken out, managing the war and the country from underground. The history of the place, as well as its functions, are very similar to that of Hack Green nuclear bunker – so see the latter's entry for more background information too. The bunker at Kelvedon Hatch was built in the early 1950s, initially (like Hack Green ) as an RAF radar station to be part of the then "ROTOR" system. But from the late 1950s / early 1960s it served as one of Britain's potential emergency regional government HQs, and the MoD kept the bunker in working condition for a good three decades. In the early 1990s, however, the nuclear threat from the Eastern Bloc was perceived to have gone away, and so the Kelvedon Hatch bunker (along with many of its counterparts across Britain ) was decommissioned. The property was handed back to the original landowners. It has since been turned into the present museum – which has a few particularly quirky twists … see below. In 2010, the Kelvedon Hatch bunker was used as a feature film set, namely for the abysmally scripted "horror" flick "S.N.U.B." ( to stand for "secret nuclear underground bunker", if you must ask). It just adds another dubious element to this very strange place … …. and that's despite its great potential! It should be a prime dark tourism destination, given its authentic Cold War associations.