What do you do with a nuclear bunker now that Mutually Assured Destruction seems as great a threat as Little Green Men from Mars?

That’s the question for the Department of Home Affairs, which owns four observation sites around the Island designed for use during a nuclear war.

The bunkers were to house members of the Royal Observer Corps who would report back on local conditions following Armageddon – but haven’t been operational for decades.

Military historian Ivor Ramsden says he’d like to preserve them somehow, and speaking from inside one in Peel he appealed for this piece of sinister heritage to be kept:


(Pictured: MHK Quintin Gill and inside a bunker)