Northern Ireland’s Secret Nuclear Bunker & Royal Observer Corps Museum. Located in County Armagh. IWM War & Conflict - Specialist Subject Network Member.
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Starting this weekend! This #HalfTerm families can enjoy 2 activities at the museum.
LEGO Lookout: Build an ROC post to add to our map of posts across the country!
Pump-kings trail: Find hidden “pump-kings” (& queens!) with royal connections to Bentley Priory to win a prize!
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The Vulcan to the Sky Trust has today launched a critical fundraising appeal to protect and preserve the legendary Avro Vulcan XH558. vulcantothesky.org/vulcan-ap…
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Now open! Don't miss our temporary exhibition exploring the Royal Observer Corps over its 100 year history. From aircraft spotting in WW2 to plotting nuclear fallout in the Cold War.
Have a go at our family activities & see if you have what it takes to be a member of the ROC!
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“You saw every bone, every bloodline, every sinew going through you hands with your eyes shut - a living X-ray.”
Christmas Island UK nuclear test veteran Brian Unthank tells #Newsnight he experienced his “first bomb” in just shorts and a t-shirt.
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Col Stewart Douglas, OBE, DL, represented HM’s Lord-Lieutenant of #CountyAntrim ☘️ at the centenary celebration of the Royal Observer Corps, hosted by 31 Group Belfast Royal Observer Corps Association, at Thieval Barracks. The event was followed by a tour of @HMS_Hibernia
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Really delighted that the Ulster Aviation Society were able to give a very special tour to His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester this afternoon!
The UAS are a truly unique and wonderful tourist attraction as well as a living breathing part of our past! The volunteers are incredible and have worked really hard to restore many planes, helicopters and much more- this site used to be RAF Long Kesh and RAF Blaris close by just over the ditch beside our small family farm.
This site holds special significance for me as it is just beside our family homeplace but it's also where my Grandad Tom worked during the war and where he met my granny!
He then went on to spend many happy years working at 23 MU RAF Aldergrove maintaining Phantoms, many of which volunteers here have worked to restore 🙂
I enjoyed my time in the Royal Observer Corps and looking forward to more bunker trips soon!
Absolutely delighted for Ray, Mark and the team that deserve all the recognition in the world!
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#WalterPresents brand new German drama Berlin Wall 🇩🇪 coming NEXT Friday 15th 9PM on More4📺 ✨
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Minister @GordonLyons1 visited the Mount Eden War Rooms in Belfast, a 1950s nuclear bunker and a listed historic building.
The bunker is owned by @CommunitiesNI and the Department is working towards transforming the building into an archive store for the unique collections held by the Historic Environment Record of Northern Ireland.
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Bernard Jenkins, 97, helped to oversee atomic bomb testing in the Australian desert in 1957: bbc.in/49YRRU6
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Protect and Survive was the British Government's official guide on how to survive a nuclear attack, but it was seen as somewhat 'laughable' during the Cold War.
Taras from @coldwaruk and Paul from @CSERCambridge explain why 👇
metro.co.uk/2024/02/16/prepa…
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⚡️⚡️IT'S HERE!⚡️⚡️
Series 8 has gone off with a 💥BANG💥 as @AngelaBarnes + @mrjohnofarrell discuss the wild and really quite absurd Race for the Bomb.
Listen here 👇
listen.podmasters.uk/T_hs9wy…
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NI's Secret Bunker🏛
A confirmed opener for EHOD 2023.
15ft below a field on the outskirts of Portadown lies a relic of the Cold War. Find out how our country would have coped if the Cold War had ever turned hot.
📅Saturday 9 September: 11:00 - 17:00
#LoveHeritageNI #EHOD2023
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"We found the co-pilot's watch, and it had stopped exactly when the plane hit the water."
Sixty years ago a group of Mourne fishermen embarked on a secret salvage mission to find a missing RAF plane. Here's their little-known story:
bbc.in/3DppBeR
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We are saddened to announce that after leaving the bunker on Sunday night after a successful tour weekend we suffered a flood. Pleaase donate to our GoFundMe to help us recover: gofund.me/0def719f
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What does the alert look and sound like? 🚨
Emergency Alerts will appear on the home screen of your device and you will hear a loud siren-like sound and feel a vibration for up to 10 seconds.
Watch the video below 📽️👇
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Heartbreaking week for us at Portadown Cares. Requests for help with food & toys are being made at an unprecedented rate.
Can YOU help? £25 buys a pensioner hamper, £35 couples hamper, £50 family hamper. We accept PayPal donations to [email protected] 🙏🏻 #helpingeachother
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We’d really love to get more followers before Thursday when we will be commemorating the 30th anniversary of the ROC stand down. Can you please rt with all your might? @NIBunker @abigoliah @Holger_Nehring @subbrit @sarahbennetto @coldwaruk @Rocassoc
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#OTD To ram home the message of who now controlled access into East Berlin and indeed to convey to the world it was an actual sovereign state, Walter Ulbricht ordered the GDR flag with hammer & sickle be hoisted aloft the #BrandenburgGate - ironically a symbol of German unity.
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For the ultimate in tense, countdown scenes, watch this incredibly suspenseful COI film, charting the ticking minutes leading up to the detonation of Britain’s first atomic weapons test, Operation Hurricane, in 1952. #COI75 #CollectionsUnited
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