Family move into five-bedroom eco-house with secret past as Cold War nuclear bunker

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Previously, the site housed a pre-fabricated Royal Observer Corps (ROC) centre, which was used to spot German planes during the Second World War, but this was demolished when a new bunker was built.

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Built in 1963, the ROC headquarters at Southwoods was just one of 29 stations where volunteers had spent 30 years planning for the eventuality of nuclear annihilation.

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He said: “The bunker still has the old generators and equipment in and this hasn’t been changed.

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