Vehicle bunker

[UKuser]

I've heard that there was a "nuclear bunker" somewhere in the new
forest where emergency service vehicles (i.e. the firebrigade and
ambulance) would have gone during a nuclear war. I'm not sure if its
part of a bigger network but wondered if anybody had heard anything
similar?

Thanks

A

[Steve Walker]

many such myths, none ever verified

[NOSPAM]

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A friend used to go out in the police convoys on exercises, they would
park up in a field by a good pub and spend most of the time in there. I
suspect they might do the same if sent out for real.

[The_Mekon]

Maybe referred to two adjacent sites in Somerford, Christchurch, both
still extant.

The "bunker" - maybe ROC post, i don't know - is now somerford youth
club. This is listed on subbrit.

Over the road is a corrugated shed which I believe was the civil defence
ambulance depot. It is still in good condition but no sign of what the
current use is, if any.

Adjacent to the youth club is a current ambulance depot, not sure if
this is related to the older civil defence depot or not.

[UKuser]

That is quite interesting! That is very probably it - a civil defence
shelter rather than a bunker. We knew someone who drove ambulances and
I think he mentioned it, but someone else had said something about the
new forest. I found this page

http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:R_90pNL3LHEJ:freespace.virgin.net/anne.welch/newpage12.htm+ww2+emergency+vehicle+shelter&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a

Its cached within Google but I wonder if it may have been an old WW2
shelter possibly.

A

[jeton...@gmail.com]

look in two places, enter the Brandon forest on the access road on the right just as you enter Brandon , across from the petrol station, go I about 1/4, to 1/2 mi used to be a small bunker entrence sticking up from the ground, leads to larger one. the other one is on the lakenheath villiage to methwold road at a road junction, surrounded by large fence , on right side of road, has or had MOD signs