scan: (mr. bond): more fantastic architecture (Corsham in Wiltshire in TUCLAND)

| from the days of airstrip one, TUCLAND, orwell's 1984
| and burgess' 1985 flying vulcan bombers, .M in the basement
| and mr. bond playing in the field
|
| oh! how we miss madness of the cold war with its secret
| architectures, secret computers that always worked
| and other sinister stuff

The complex was constructed "in a former mine near Corsham in Wiltshire 
where stone was once excavated... for the fine houses of Bath."
This subterranean city, as the Times tells us, "was a munitions dump and 
a factory for military aircraft engines. It was equipped with what was 
then the second largest telephone exchange in Britain and a BBC studio 
from where the prime minister could make broadcasts to what remained of 
the nation."

Radio broadcasts echoing across a landscape of craters.

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/subterranean-bunker-cities.html

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| and more from the incomparable sub.brit

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/r/ridge_quarry/index.shtml

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/r/ridge_quarry/index2.shtml

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(images attached)

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| bbc

Wilts' Secret Underground City

Burlington: The 35 acre, secret subterranean Cold War City that lies 100 
feet beneath Corsham.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/underground_city/

Take a virtual 360 tour of Areas 8 through 12 of Wiltshire's Secret 
Underground City... Burlington. PLEASE NOTE IT WILL TAKE A FEW MINUTES 
TO DOWNLOAD THESE IMAGES ON A NARROW BAND CONNECTION.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/underground_city/360_gallery_1/index.shtml