Oxgate Admiralty Citadel Bunker, London (2021)

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Riskybex

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In the 1930’s there were several schemes to provide protected accommodation for central government and the armed services away from Whitehall in the event of a devastating attack on central London. Several locations were proposed including sites in the West Midland and Wiltshire but as war was approaching in 1939 the government became committed to the North-West London Suburbs Scheme which included the building of three subterranean reserve war rooms for the military and the government.

The Air Ministry was to have a bomb-proof citadel at Harrow Weald (Station Z) and the Admiralty at Oxgate in the far north of Willesden. The War Office’s citadel at Kneller Hall, Twickenham, could not be protected securely enough to be bomb-proof so a third bunker was proposed at Dollis Hill which later became known as Paddock and also housed the stand-by cabinet war room.
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Plan of the bunker

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Standby Generator Room

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Ventiltion Plant

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Remains of the Operations Room

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Fuel Tanks

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Spiral staircase on upper level going to lower level and exit.

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Blast door entrance to lower level

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Goods Lift on the upper level to the lower level.

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Plant Equipment

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Blast Door

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Ventiltion
 
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One I had forgot to add. The view from the rooftop of the building above the bunker.
 

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Im curious if they have left any sort of access to this as I believe its now built over? or have they had to completely fill to to do the build? bloody shame if they have it really should be protected.
 
Im curious if they have left any sort of access to this as I believe its now built over? or have they had to completely fill to to do the build? bloody shame if they have it really should be protected.
The bunker and surface building are both still there abandoned but the bunker is most likely under water by now as when I visited the water reached to just above knee height.
 
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