CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED Camera 2 Tape 1
Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places.this is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only.
Camera 2, Tape 1
0:00 - Tunnel Quarry top of shaft 5 in MSLP
2:55 - Tunnel Quarry - back in the underground station
5:11 - Tunnel Quarry - driving along the main drift
8:02 - Burlington - store room
11:22 - Burlington - pedestrian access
14:33 - Burlington - maintenance rooms/workshops
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED 2005 Camera 1 Tape 8 Part 2
Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. If you spot a particular area send us the time spotted and we will produce a time index card in the description below. We do not own the copyright of this footage - this is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only.
Camera 1, Tape 8, Part 2
As above
2:20 - Spring Quarry - you see the parts stores where works could go and request bits they needed
3:09 - Spring Quarry - the rig on the ceiling was part of a crane system used to lift and move heavy aircraft engines
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED 2005 Camera 1 Tape 8 Part 1
Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. If you spot a particular area send us the time spotted and we will produce a time index card in the description below. We do not own the copyright of this footage - this is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only.
Camera 1, Tape 8, Part 1
Spring Quarry - I don't have much to say about this area, it's not as well documented as Burlington and isn't multi-use, it's just an aircraft foactory, all of it. It's all workshops, stores
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED Camera 1 Tape 7
Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. If you spot a particular area send us the time spotted and we will produce a time index card in the description below. We do not own the copyright of this footage - this is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only.
Camera 1, Tape 7
0:00 - West Lung - back over the other side in West Lung again
9:27 - West Lung - an internal shaft they call "the well", they lowered a camera down during this filming for the first time to see what was down there
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED Camera 1 Tape 6 Part 1
Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. If you spot a particular area send us the time spotted and we will produce a time index card in the description below. We do not own the copyright of this footage - this is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only.
Camera 1, Tape 6, Part 1
0:00 - Tunnel Quarry, yeah what I said earlier about being under Box Tunnel is correct, this is video of Network Rail people checking the underside of the tunnel which apparently they do regularly.
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED Camera 1 Tape 6 Part 2
Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. If you spot a particular area send us the time spotted and we will produce a time index card in the description below. We do not own the copyright of this footage - this is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only.
Camera 1, Tape 6, Part 2
0:00 - Spring Quarry - canteen for aircraft factory
4:49 - Spring Quarry - East Lung, unconverted old workings to the East of Spring Quarry
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED Camera 1 Tape 5
Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. We do not own the copyright of this footage - this is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only. Check out the other 18 tapes in this series... on this channel
Camera 1, Tape 5
0:00 - Browns Quarry - "the deep" under CDCN
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED Camera 1 Tape 4 Part 5
Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. If you spot a particular area send us the time spotted and we will produce a time index card in the description below. We do not own the copyright of this footage - this is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only.
0:00 - Burlington - Ventilation system fan no. 6
3:20 - Burlington - Ventilation system
6:31 - Tunnel Quarry - not sure exactly where but near the Eastern end north of the underground station and not too far from CCC
12:23 - Tunnel Quarry - I didn't go here so I'm not sure what it is but I THINK it's a wet area under Box Tunnel that has to be constantly pump to stop water ingress, I think that's probably what the pump was at 6:31
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED Camera 1 Tape 4 Part 4
Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places.this is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only.
0:00 - West Lung - old workings to the west of Spring Quarry that were never converted and have remained untouched, some of the best examples of quarry history and cranes preserved
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED Camera 1 Tape 4 Part 3 enhanced
Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. We do not own the copyright of this footage - this is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only. Check out the other 18 tapes in this series... on this channel
0:00 - Burlington - Ventilation system
0:24 - Burlington - Ventilation system, butterfly valve, could be closed to stop contaminated air coming in (in theory)
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED Camera 1 Tape 4 Part 2
ootage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. We do not own the copyright of this footage - this is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only.Check out the other 18 tapes in this series... on this channel
0:00 - Burlington - Laundry
3:11 - Burlington - Laundry, weird fungus/mould
5:05 - Burlington - Communications area, the unused swivel chairs of teleprinter operatives
5:56 - Burlington - teleprinters
14:13 - Burlington - Lamson room, the pods would arrive here and then get popped in the right tube to go to its destination in the bunker
16:23 - Burlington - air pumps for lamson system
16:52 - Burlington - lamson room empty pods
17:28 - Burlington - lamson tubes leaving room and spreading out across bunker
19:02 - Burlington - dormitories, the yellow boxes are cupboards for personal belongings
20:56 - Burlington - the PM's dormitory, one of the only rooms to be whitewashed
21:40 - Burlington - the PM's private bathroom
27:43 - Burlington - diesel tanks for generators
28:37 - Burlington - back up generators
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED Camera 1 Tape 4 Part 1
ootage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. This is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only.Check out the other 18 tapes in this series... on this channel
0:00 - Burlington - 1950s telephone exchange (listed site of special historic interest)
1:12 - Burlington - 1950s telephone exchange - directories updates until late 1980s
4:00 - Burlington - 1980s telephone exchange - more modern kit replaced the wooden desks and humans
6:48 - Burlington - 1980s telephone exchange - power plant
7:28 - Burlington - 1980s telephone exchange - back in the exchange
9:28 - Burlington - Infirmary - kitchen (the maintenance staff unpacked bits from the store and set up the whole Infirmary area how they thought it would look, it was never actually used)
11:11 - Burlington - Infirmary - wards
13:23 - Burlington - Infirmary - sluice room
13:45 - Burlington - general corridor in the government office area, this would have been Whitehall if the nuke hit
15:54 - Burlington - office, lamson tube used to send message around the bunker in pods via pressured pipe network
16:58 - Burlington - government office space
18:20 - Burlington - designated as the PM's map room but as it was never set up it's hard to tell what it would have looked like or been used for, the room has a windowed-gallery looking in to it
21:29 - Burlington - one of the main passageways
25:06 - Burlington - water treatment area and pump room
28:44 - Burlington - communal washrooms
30:06 - Burlington - main canteen and serving area
30:49 - Burlington - a very old and very rare 1950s automatic coffee machine
32:09 - Burlington - Main canteen kitchens
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED Camera 1 Tape 3
Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. this is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only.Check out the other 18 tapes in this series... on this channel.
Camera 1, Tape 3
0:00 - Box Tunnel, Easter portal
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED 2005 Camera 1 Tape 2 Part 2
Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. this is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only.Check out the other 18 tapes in this series... on this channel
0:00 - Hudswell Quarry old workings
0:27 - Tunnel Quarry - CDI/Corsham Depot Inlet fan (through the red door in Box Quarry), motor is mounted on thick cork to reduce vibrations, still used as part of the modern ventilation which just blows hot air out with modern air con into the old ammo depot, the CDI fan helps circulate it
3:49 - Not sure... but probably more of Hudswell old workings
5:53 - Tunnel Quarry - back at QOC new walkway
6:31 - Spring Quarry - QOC quarry operations centre kitchen and mess with Olga Lehmann murals on the walls painting in paints available from the aircraft factory
26:31 - Spring Quarry - QOC - dormitories
28:58 - Spring Quarry - QOC - offices
29:51 - Spring Quarry - QOC - RAF operations/control room
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED 2005 Camera 1 Tape 2 Part 1
Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. This is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only.Check out the other 18 tapes in this series... on this channel
0:00 - Tunnel Quarry - ammunition depot underground train platform
0:57 - Tunnel Quarry - train line to Box Tunnel sidings
2:20 - Tunnel Quarry - right tunnel to sidings, left tunnel to underground loco workshop
3:55 - Tunnel Quarry - gate to underground loco workshop
4:12 - Tunnel Quarry - underground loco workshop (notice the turning plate on the floor to spin the engine around)
4:58 - Tunnel Quarry - across from one of the platforms over track is a door into this elecricity generator room which would have provide backup power for the ammo depot
7:48 - Tunnel Quarry - entrance to district 4 ammo depot
8:30 - Tunnel Quarry - district 4 ammo depot
15:04 - Tunnel Quarry - north end of district 4, this is Hudswell Drift which runs along the North of the storage districts and is served by a carts pulled by a winch at one end, you can see the narrow guage rails on the floor (the main drift in the south is conveyor belts), the tunnel leads to the Hudswell Lifts which are now capped on the surface on the corner of the park at Peel Circus.
17:14 - Tunnel Quarry - Hudswell Drift, the winch at the end of the tunnel
18:06 - Tunnel Quarry - Hudswell Drift, looking the other direction towards the lifts
18:23 - Tunnel Quarry - district 6 ammo depot, presumably from the North/Hudswell
19:39 - Hudswell Quarry - basically part of Tunnel but was once an independent quarry, the lift shafts can be seen at the far end, as well as the carts which were pulled along Hudswell Drift
22:53 - Hudswell/Tunnel Quarry - an old diesel engine shunter of some kind, I guess they pulled the carts around with this
23:10 - Tunnel Quarry - the Eastern end of the main drift
23:50 - Hudswell Quarry old workings
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED 2005 Camera 1 Tape 1 Part 2
Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. We do not own the copyright of this footage - this is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only. Check out the other 18 tapes in this series... on this channel
0:57 - New walkway which connect tunnel and spring quarry via the QOC, I guess it was built when Burlington was decommissioned in the 90s because after that point MOD staff would have been able to move freely underground between areas
3:18 - Spring Quarry
4:49 - Burlington
10:55 - Burlington - Passenger Lift 2, decommissioned, surfaces in the mound on Westwells Road
11:40 - Burlington - stores, most of the bunker's furniture, office/kitchen equipment is here still wrapped, never used
13:49 - Burlington - pedestrian access, escalator, surfaces in one of the long thin mounds above
20:49 - Burlington - maintenance (work shop and vehicle charging station)
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CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED Camera 1 Tape 1 Part 1
Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. We do not own the copyright of this footage - this is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only.Check out the other 18 tapes in this series... on this channel
Camera 1, Tape 1, Part 1
0:16 Tunnel Quarry - MSLP (multi-surface loading platform, five slope shafts radiate down in to the ammunition store) MSLP is FOUR slope shafts, not five (but they are shafts 2,3,4 and 5)
2:15 Tunnel Quarry - looking up to MSLP
4:45 Tunnel Quarry - ammunition depot underground train platform
9:10 Tunnel Quarry - main drift
11:27 Tunnel Quarry - main drift, "Charlie Point" former MOD security checkpoint (notice the new air con in this air, servers the PNCC server room and dumps the hot air out into the main drift)
15:08 Browns Quarry
21:09 - PNCC
23:40 - PNCC - main lift access to all of the underground space (with the exception of CCC obviously and perhaps the Skynet building)
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