BTW have your books arrived?
On 1 November 2012 08:37, Tony Oldham <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 07:58:34 +0000
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Burlington and New web site
> > To: [log in to unmask]
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> > I''m pleased to advise that I have launched a new website its the same
> > address www.moorebooks.co.uk but with new software that should make it
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> > user friendly its taken a while to get it just right and would welcome
> any
> > comments regarding it
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> > Nick Catfords Book Burlington will be available from Next Week and I'm
> > offering it as post free up until Christmas
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> > Mike
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> > *Burlington - The Central Government War Headquarters at Corsham -
> £24.99 -
> > *Nick Catford, HB ,224pp, 250 x250
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> > (Folly Books description) For fifty years the bunker now known as
> > 'Burlington' was the most secret place in Britain.
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> > In the early 1950s it was felt that an alternative seat of government
> > should be available in case London become untenable in the event of a
> > nuclear war. In 1954 the scheme was approved and construction work began.
> > The bunker at Corsham in north-west Wiltshire would be the size of a
> small
> > town and accommodate over 4,000 ministers and civil servants including
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> > Prime Minister and War Cabinet, the Chiefs of Staff, the Ministry of
> > Defence and Joint Intelligence Committee as well as all the other
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> > and civil government departments such as the Air Ministry, Foreign
> Office,
> > Home Office and so on, required both to prosecute the war and oversee
> > post-attack civil reconstruction. It would have a power station, water
> > works, sewage works, a telephone exchange, ventilating systems, and
> > catering facilities allowing it to operate in a closed down condition for
> > up to ninety days.
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> > The bunker had a number of code-names during its life time - Subterfuge,
> > Stockwell, Burlington, Turnstile, Chanticleer and Peripheral, but
> > 'Burlington' is the name that it is remembered by.
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> > This book tells the fascinating story of 'Burlington' from its inception
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> > the early 1950s until 2004 when the site was finally declassified. It is
> a
> > large-format volume and contains approximately 400 colour photographs,
> maps
> > and plans accompanied by comprehensive captions and an authoritative
> text.
> > Nick Catford was granted unprecedented access to this highly sensitive
> site
> > in order to compile the collection of images reproduced in this book.
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