I highly recommend this to you


Available as a video or DVD Recorded February 1997 well before the current
deterioration and vandalism took place many items that have now permanently
lost can be seen from your armchair.
Videos produced by IA recordings are always of the highest quality and this
one is no exception throughout a location map of  the site is given which
will help orientate you through this labyrinth



Deep in the sandstone hill at Drakelow near Kidderminster, 5km of tunnels
were dug in 1942 to house a hidden factory. The Rover company was building
parts for radial aero engines and its plants in Birmingham and Coventry were
very vulnerable to air raids. Over 26,000 square metres of underground floor
space housed machine tools, heat treatment gear, laboratories, store rooms,
offices, a canteen, a dining room and games rooms.

In the 1960's the threat was different - the cold war. Drakelow was
refurbished as a Regional Seat of Government - a nuclear bunker designed to
help control the population of the Midlands in the aftermath of holocaust.
It had its own independent water supply, generator, air conditioning and air
filters. There were male and female dormitories, a sick bay with operating
theatre, offices and BBC radio studios. This role lasted in various forms
until 1993, when the site was removed from the secret list and sold off.

This tape shows an exploration of the whole complex, starting in the Rover
factory area with remains such as the original blast doors, time office, an
electric truck, the battery room, a laboratory and the massive ventilation
fan. The 1960's period is represented by a canteen, dormitories, offices and
a BBC studio. The 1980's-90's relics include shower rooms, the generator
hall and the fallout decontamination facility, together with another BBC
studio and a kitchen with its stainless steel equipment virtually unused.

Running Time 28 minutes

Price
Video £12.95 inc P&P

DVD £14.95 inc P&P

Available via myself

www.moorebooks.co.uk <http://www.moorebooks.co.uk/>  (not yet added to my
site)

 or   http://www.iarecordings.org/