Brindle Royal Observer Corps Post Restoration Group

 

Volunteers wanted

 

 

 

What is it?

During the Cold War in the1960s to 80s,

a network of over 1,000 small underground
bunkers were built to monitor the nuclear

fallout if a nuclear bomb had been dropped

on Britain. We’re restoring one of these

locally to the state it would have been in

just before it was decommissioned in the

early 1990s. It’s been quite badly vandalized,

but with your help, we’re confident we can

restore it and preserve it, so that future

generations can see what it was like – and

act as a reminder of the disaster we came

close to in the not too distant past.

You’ll be very welcome if you’d like to help.

We’re still sorting out exactly what needs

doing but some of the jobs you could help

with are shown overleaf. We have access

to a large pool of specialist expertise who

know lots about the technical aspects of

these bunkers and in some cases, can help

us replace the missing equipment.

A significant part of the project will be to pass on knowledge so that it isn’t lost to the future.

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We need your help – and you might learn something interesting.
Our work days are Wednesday and Sundays or you can get in touch by ringing Michael Prescott on 01257 265748. 

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What needs doing?

The sort of jobs that you might be involved in could include -
 

• Making tea and refreshments for other volunteers!

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• Entrance shaft vents walls needs cleaning.

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• Paint the entrance shaft wall, using a damp resistant paint.

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• Reinstate entrance shaft shutter.

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• Need a protecter for the wall directly behind ladder.

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• Paint the ladder.

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• Rebuild and replace the sump strainer with an austenitic fine wire cover to prevent the small particles from traveling up to the pump

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• Paint BT cover green and reinstate.

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• Design Modulator, PSU, Transmitter, then designed a PCB and mill the boards and construct, mounting in a footprint.

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• Look for a site for Wind-turbine.

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• Remove the BT cables from the outlet tube, (under the soil) clean out the tube and supply new cable into the bunker with an external connection box sealing the pipe and back filling the soil

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• BT box for a connection to the electricity input from the wind turbine generator and run cable via the BT pipe.

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• Planting trees to screen the site, on going project

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• The Tool board clips are to small for the Top-hat tool.

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• Source LED strips.

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• Wire up the strip LED.

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• Manufacture a fix survey meter steel probe

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• Lighting for the toilet / reinstate the porta-loo 

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• Mount K2 pump 

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• Replace the earth strap on the hatch

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• Earth bonding needs to be reinstated.

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• Excavate / trace back the phone line heading up to trig point to see where this goes to?

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• Levelling compound.

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• Erecting strain Concrete fence post 
   

• Additional main hatch spring?

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• Finish the piping at the entrance hatch.

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• Posting stories onto the Brindle Facebook page.

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• Interviewing and recording memories of the people who manned or were involved with this and other bunkers like it.

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• Preparing written and digital material to make the post visible to the community.

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• Maintain & extend social media presence and contacts with ROCA/SubBrit etc

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• Community involvement events - ROCA picnic, Cuckoo walks refreshment stop, ramblers stop with refreshments?, cycle meet rest stop? Heritage Open Day, start/end grant celebration on site inviting locals, Community visibility and volunteer recruitment events - update talk to Brindle Historical Soc, , UCLan and local schools

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• Documenting progress on the site. Helping to make grant applications to fund conservation/replacement work.

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• FSM Protective Dome, require making. Some of the parts can be obtained 

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• Repairs to compound gate. Treat external gate then paint.

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• New cover on communications turret, as existing no PVA used.

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• Plus other tasks not thought of yet.

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