Burlington Bunker

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)