Building record TQ 77 SE 1264 - Royal Observer Corps Nuclear Post

Shaft sealed, surface structures in good condition and recognisable. Boundary fence still in place. Site heavily overgrown. Built as part of Cold War precautions to monitor Nuclear blasts and radiation.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential : Possible.
Condition : very good
Date of visit : 11/05/06

ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS MONITORING POST. Revised SRF

Underground

ROC

Recorder- N. Catford (1)

Three small structures are visible on the site of a Royal Observer Corps underground monitoring post. At least one of the structures, visible on aerial photographs taken in the 1960s and 1970s, is probably a ventilation shaft for the underground monitoring chamber. The features have been mapped as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. Not much trace of the site could be seen on photographs taken in 1978, and it appears to have been removed by 1992. This site is located adjacent to a Second World War pillbox (Monument 1418681) and associated support structures (Monument 1548001), but does not appear to have been directly associated with them. (2-5)

Historic England archive material: MD003093 Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project: TQ 77 SE Material still held by Aerial Survey.

D Wood, 01/01/75, Attack Warning Red (Article in monograph). SKE14303.

D Wood, 01/01/75, Attack Warning Red (Article in monograph). Ske14303.

MMRG, 11/05/06, Royal Observer Post UG (Photograph). SKE14516.

MMRG, 11/05/06, Royal Observer Post UG (Photograph). Ske14516.