former RAF Bawburgh

 government, bunker, RAF - Royal Air Force, draw only border, closed / former military

former RAF Eastern Sector Control HQ.
ROTOR Station and SOC.

In the 1950’s the Royal Air Force replaced the ageing WW2 radar with centimetric radar in what was known as the ROTOR plan. This built an elaborate network of 39 bunkers at radar sites around the UK. Here on the East and South coast these were deep underground. On the West Coast where they were less vulnerable the bunkers were only semi-sunken. The plotters at radar station reported to one of four Sector Operations Centres (ROTOR SOC) of similar design to the radar bunkers but larger with three levels. RAF Bawburgh was the SOC for the Eastern Sector.

former RGHQ Regional Government Emergency Headquaters.
Cold War emergency Control Room.

By the 1960’s the government had many recently built and expensive bunkers embarrassingly redundant. When the policy of Regional Seats of Government Headquarters was introduced, for use in the event of nuclear attack on the UK, many of the ROTOR sites where utilised for these headquarters. Four SOC bunkers (Bawburgh, Barnton Quarry, Kelvedon Hatch and Shipton) and four radar bunker (Anstruther, Bolt Head, Hack Green and Skendleby) were used as Regional Headquarters.

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