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Re:Subterranea Britannica by arethuza on Sunday May 22, 2016 @07:48AM (#11748229)
Barnton Quarry bunker in Edinburgh (about 4 km west of where I live) is being renovated and will hopefully be open soon:

http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/BarntonQu...

This bunker would have been the Regional Seat of Government for Scotland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Seat_of_Government

Given that its location and purpose wasn't a secret I imagine it would have been blown to bits in any conflict.

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Re:Subterranea Britannica by stevetrewick on Sunday May 22, 2016 @11:42AM (#11748968)
I was under the impression that the RSGs were secret until 1963 when an anti nuke campaign group exposed them?

But then, hey, Britain. We have a load of secrets that aren't technically secret but we'd rather you didn't know and would take a dim view of you trying to find out. Especially true during the Cold War (see e.g. Backbone, etc).

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Re:Subterranea Britannica by arethuza on Monday May 23, 2016 @05:23AM (#11752729)
Good point - I'm not sure when Barnton stopped being the RSG - I had assumed it was well after '63.

There was a new RSG type bunker at Cultybraggan near Comrie but, with impeccable timing, that wasn't completed until 1990!

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