krela
Well-known member
Great sound effect on that link, too.
It's a scary horrible sound that will always send shivers down my spine.
Nothing good can ever come from that sound.
Great sound effect on that link, too.
what makes you think they are cold war? surely its more likely they were installed in WW2 and kept on to warn of nuclear strikes?
Sorry to drag this thread back out but I just came across this on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wIJ1D96ArI&mode=related&search=
I always thought the WWII siren definintely peyre-date the Cold War.
A friend of mine has got one. It runs on three-phase so he couldn't just plug it in at home. So, when he did an electrical course and discovered the local college had three-phase, he (or rather him and a couple of mates) lugged it down there. His course teacher thought it would be rather fun to run it up...
Big mistake.
All the best,
Simon
It's one of the most eerie sounds you can hear and scares the willies out of me!
It is, as stated earlier, more than likely to be from the Cold War period. The siren would have sounded by the local Carrier Control Point (CCP) located at a Police Station normally. The alert to sound the siren, the dreaded "Attack Warning RED" would have came from the UKWMO National Wartime HQ in Preston, via the Handel and WB 400/600/1400 Carrier network.
There was one on top of the old Police Station at the top of my road up until around 1993 and there is still one in Hale near Altrincham.
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