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Old 24-06-2018, 03:49 PM
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Default Shilbottle ROC Nuclear Bunker

Now the various online websites give the location of this as "55.36649749 , -1.698633111"

put this into google maps and you end up here:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/...5!4d-1.6986331


which looks like farm buildings south of Shilbottle.
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Old 24-06-2018, 03:58 PM
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Meanwhile to the north, between Bilton and Bilton Banks, on the roadside, is this:



had to join 3 photos together to get it all shown. Coquet Island is just nicely hidden behind it.










[photographed 24th June 2018]
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Is this not the bunker?
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Old 24-06-2018, 04:01 PM
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If so, then it is here:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/...5!4d-1.6986331
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Your first reference is right, the mast at Hill Head Farm Shilbottle was where the ROC bunker was. Your second photo above Bilton is a water reservoir.
If you have any ROC questions, that 1950s generation still has some former members about the area and I can get questions answered for you!

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Old 24-06-2018, 07:26 PM
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Your first reference is right, the mast at Hill Head Farm Shilbottle was where the ROC bunker was. Your second photo above Bilton is a water reservoir.
If you have any ROC questions, that 1950s generation still has some former members about the area and I can get questions answered for you!

I think there is something at the foot of the mast visible on google street view:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.36...7i13312!8i6656

is that it?
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