A few days ago, my friend Andy Jones invited me to visit a abandoned cold war nuclear bomb stores. The place was located in Barnham, near Thetford. I went there with Arleta. When we arrived, we met our friends Dibs with daughter , Henry, Nigel, Ben and of course Andy. I did not know all other people at all 🙂
It was the first time when I was visiting place like that with a owner permission 🙂 I always do is in slightly different way 😛
Anyway, the land was abandoned in late 50’s. In 1966 our host bought it from Ministry of Defence. He paid £20k which today could be worth about £300k which made that day the price very good for so big piece of land 🙂 After a while he started growing… mushrooms 🙂
Nowadays he tries to recover the atomic storage place to look like in 50’s. He already renewed a few watch towers and sheds.
The funny thing is that all the atomic heads were kept separately. What was the reason? The warheads were kept separately to protect them from accidental detonation (if a lightning strike hit the building they were in they were likely to go off) so keeping them in one place may have set them all off.
They were 1 metre in length approximately so you could grab the handle and lift it out. Any deeper you risk dropping it down then hole again and damaging it. If they were just on the ground they would emit radiation at ground level in all directions. If you had 66 of them, in in each hut, it would make it very hard to walk about the site safely as your legs would get irradiated.
I do not know all details about making this event by Andy, but I know that our host was happy to give us a tour through the site because we left for him a lot of signatures in his guestbook so, as he said, he will be able to talk to the lottery foundation to get some grants to improve the site.
NIKON D600 (14mm, f/6.3, 1/80 sec, ISO100)
NIKON D600 (24mm, f/9, 1/100 sec, ISO100)
NIKON D600 (24mm, f/9, 1/100 sec, ISO100)
NIKON D600 (14mm, f/6.3, 1/100 sec, ISO100)
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NIKON D600 (14mm, f/6.3, 1/50 sec, ISO100)
NIKON D600 (14mm, f/9, 1/20 sec, ISO100)
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NIKON D600 (14mm, f/9, 1/125 sec, ISO100)
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NIKON D600 (24mm, f/9, 1/80 sec, ISO100)
NIKON D600 (14mm, f/3.2, 1/125 sec, ISO100)
NIKON D600 (14mm, f/7.1, 1/320 sec, ISO100)
NIKON D600 (14mm, f/7.1, 1/400 sec, ISO100)
NIKON D600 (14mm, f/6.3, 1/200 sec, ISO100)
NIKON D7000 (24mm, f/13, 1/20 sec, ISO100)
NIKON D7000 (24mm, f/13, 1/15 sec, ISO100)
NIKON D7000 (42mm, f/7.1, 1/40 sec, ISO100)
NIKON D7000 (24mm, f/7.1, 1/25 sec, ISO100)
NIKON D7000 (24mm, f/7.1, 1/20 sec, ISO100)
Last three pictures have been taken by Dibs:
