The History (Sorry to bore you if you already know it):
RAF Bempton in East Yorkshire (or RAF Flamborough Head as it was originally named) became operational in February of 1940, providing the Royal Air Force with a 'Ground Controlled Interception' service, linked to many other such sites around the East and Southern coasts of the UK. 'GCI' was one of the RAF's tools of guiding its fighters to intercept incoming enemy aircraft.
In 1945 it became an "Air Ministry Experimental Station" and in 1949 the site was converted to accommodate the 'Chain Home Low' radar system (CHL) which was capable of detecting incoming enemy aircraft at low altitude (around 500ft asl) at roughly 30 miles out and high level altitudes (15,000ft asl) at over 100 miles. This sort of information would be gathered from other such stations around the UK and forwarded to a command centre to build a picture of what was happening and perhaps more importantly, how to react.
The next significant part of its history was in November 1951 where the station converted its uses to the codenamed 'ROTOR' programme, established in the early 1950's to forewarn the UK of any approaching Soviet bombers. The bunker constructed was known as an 'R1 Station' which essential meant it had one floor. Its bunker was initially designed to withstand 1000lb Soviet freefall bombs, but was reportedly solid enough to withstand a "near miss" 12 Kiloton nuclear blast. Hmmm
The station was closed in 1972 and not too long after began to sharply fall down hill (Not literally, though I grant you it's on a cliff!
). The bunker became a lair to some satanic sex people cult/coven and got trashed up pretty badly. The RAF were called in to remove them (would have loved to have seen that) and the site was again left derelict and open. As a result of this period are many explicit, detailed drawing around the bunker. Since then the place has been tagged throughout the years and all the other damage you'd expect from chavs etc...
***WARNING*** Some pictures are of an explicit nature, but considering some of you may be viewing these images in work places/in front of young eyes/in front of wives, I’ve blanked out all the rudies (sorry lads)
The Photos. (Sorry, my proper camera died on me! Only camera phone piccys I’m afraid I’ve altered them to make them clearer, though when I was taking these my main concern was our safety, as it is a VERY dangerous place:
1)
2)
3)
4) If in doubt...
can't put a price on safety!
5) Stairs leading down to the access tunnel
6) Walking down
7) Our greeting...
8) Last glimpse on sunlight from the bottom
9) Blast Doors
10) "Welcome to the house of fun..."
11)
12) There are drops like this EVERYWHERE
13) Male lav's
14) Not much is left of the places original purpose, but found this amongst the fallen debris.
15) I was even expecting this, yet it still scared the S%£$ out of me!
16)
17) Generator?
18) This was certaintly "interesting" to cross
19) Sunlight!
20) If it was life and death...then maybe!
21) Devil dirt
21) Demon dogging
22) Beelzeboss bl..... OK, you get the picture!
23) Escape shaft (right)
24)
25) Knock-knock
26)
27) Old school plug socket!
28)
29)
30) Dugout
31)
A note to anyone planning on visiting this site. The bunker is filled with alot of hazards, the immediate risks being unstable floors, large drops and alot of very heavy things ready to fall from the ceiling. Another thing to consider are dusts, there are loads of the stuff flying about and it wouldn’t surprise me if it was asbestos. Don't bother buying the odour and paint respirator from your local DIY shop, you need the right grade of protection that places like Homebase and B&Q don't sell.
And that's all folks!
Hope you enjoyed them!
RAF Bempton in East Yorkshire (or RAF Flamborough Head as it was originally named) became operational in February of 1940, providing the Royal Air Force with a 'Ground Controlled Interception' service, linked to many other such sites around the East and Southern coasts of the UK. 'GCI' was one of the RAF's tools of guiding its fighters to intercept incoming enemy aircraft.
In 1945 it became an "Air Ministry Experimental Station" and in 1949 the site was converted to accommodate the 'Chain Home Low' radar system (CHL) which was capable of detecting incoming enemy aircraft at low altitude (around 500ft asl) at roughly 30 miles out and high level altitudes (15,000ft asl) at over 100 miles. This sort of information would be gathered from other such stations around the UK and forwarded to a command centre to build a picture of what was happening and perhaps more importantly, how to react.
The next significant part of its history was in November 1951 where the station converted its uses to the codenamed 'ROTOR' programme, established in the early 1950's to forewarn the UK of any approaching Soviet bombers. The bunker constructed was known as an 'R1 Station' which essential meant it had one floor. Its bunker was initially designed to withstand 1000lb Soviet freefall bombs, but was reportedly solid enough to withstand a "near miss" 12 Kiloton nuclear blast. Hmmm
The station was closed in 1972 and not too long after began to sharply fall down hill (Not literally, though I grant you it's on a cliff!
). The bunker became a lair to some satanic sex people cult/coven and got trashed up pretty badly. The RAF were called in to remove them (would have loved to have seen that) and the site was again left derelict and open. As a result of this period are many explicit, detailed drawing around the bunker. Since then the place has been tagged throughout the years and all the other damage you'd expect from chavs etc...***WARNING*** Some pictures are of an explicit nature, but considering some of you may be viewing these images in work places/in front of young eyes/in front of wives, I’ve blanked out all the rudies (sorry lads)
The Photos. (Sorry, my proper camera died on me! Only camera phone piccys I’m afraid
I’ve altered them to make them clearer, though when I was taking these my main concern was our safety, as it is a VERY dangerous place:1)
2)
3)
4) If in doubt...
can't put a price on safety!
5) Stairs leading down to the access tunnel
6) Walking down
7) Our greeting...
8) Last glimpse on sunlight from the bottom
9) Blast Doors
10) "Welcome to the house of fun..."
11)
12) There are drops like this EVERYWHERE
13) Male lav's
14) Not much is left of the places original purpose, but found this amongst the fallen debris.
15) I was even expecting this, yet it still scared the S%£$ out of me!
16)
17) Generator?
18) This was certaintly "interesting" to cross
19) Sunlight!
20) If it was life and death...then maybe!
21) Devil dirt
21) Demon dogging
22) Beelzeboss bl..... OK, you get the picture!
23) Escape shaft (right)
24)
25) Knock-knock
26)
27) Old school plug socket!
28)
29)
30) Dugout
31)
A note to anyone planning on visiting this site. The bunker is filled with alot of hazards, the immediate risks being unstable floors, large drops and alot of very heavy things ready to fall from the ceiling. Another thing to consider are dusts, there are loads of the stuff flying about and it wouldn’t surprise me if it was asbestos. Don't bother buying the odour and paint respirator from your local DIY shop, you need the right grade of protection that places like Homebase and B&Q don't sell.
And that's all folks!
Hope you enjoyed them!
