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Following on from my cold war West Germany map, I’ve been working on a UK version and trying to add everything I can that was operational in the UK at the end of 1989.
This has been slightly hampered by my spending much longer overseas than in the UK back then and not knowing much about the UK militarily, and it has been rather a revelation.
I started off by labelling up all the garrisons (I’m not doing individual barracks in there as many have been merged, demolished or even renamed) then going for the low hanging fruit such as RAF airfields. This was then followed by the Royal Navy and, WOW! Did they ever have a lot more establishments than I expected!
I started to add some ROC posts, but after finding a Google Maps where someone has already done this I though 'bugger that!'. There are a LOT!! I am going to add their sector HQ's and other centre's though.
I’ve just finished last week by adding as many of the NATO Ace High comms sites as possible. Not got them all yet as the system was dismantled right at the very end of the cold war as better and more affordable technologies came online, and some sites were demolished as some were simply reused for conventional masts.
As some of you will note, some locations and site names may be off/wrong, this is primarily down to a lack of information on these places and the urban exploration sites such as Subterranea Britannica have been of great help, especially when locating Regional Seats of Government (RSG’s) and other bunkers. Any mistakes are entirely my own, and yes, it is a little messy so far and I will get around to sorting that out in due course.
If any of you can see anywhere I have missed out such as non-garrison barracks, or know of a new category I can add please let me know.
Oh, and all of the locations I’ve added are from publicly available sources including the MoD (I’ve actually left out several locations which would not be helpful to add).
Enjoy!
*Unzip the attached .kmz file and use Google Earth Pro (free) to see the locations.
ETA: You can now download this file as it gets updated from here - Cold War UK
This has been slightly hampered by my spending much longer overseas than in the UK back then and not knowing much about the UK militarily, and it has been rather a revelation.
I started off by labelling up all the garrisons (I’m not doing individual barracks in there as many have been merged, demolished or even renamed) then going for the low hanging fruit such as RAF airfields. This was then followed by the Royal Navy and, WOW! Did they ever have a lot more establishments than I expected!
I started to add some ROC posts, but after finding a Google Maps where someone has already done this I though 'bugger that!'. There are a LOT!! I am going to add their sector HQ's and other centre's though.
I’ve just finished last week by adding as many of the NATO Ace High comms sites as possible. Not got them all yet as the system was dismantled right at the very end of the cold war as better and more affordable technologies came online, and some sites were demolished as some were simply reused for conventional masts.
As some of you will note, some locations and site names may be off/wrong, this is primarily down to a lack of information on these places and the urban exploration sites such as Subterranea Britannica have been of great help, especially when locating Regional Seats of Government (RSG’s) and other bunkers. Any mistakes are entirely my own, and yes, it is a little messy so far and I will get around to sorting that out in due course.
If any of you can see anywhere I have missed out such as non-garrison barracks, or know of a new category I can add please let me know.
Oh, and all of the locations I’ve added are from publicly available sources including the MoD (I’ve actually left out several locations which would not be helpful to add).
Enjoy!
*Unzip the attached .kmz file and use Google Earth Pro (free) to see the locations.
ETA: You can now download this file as it gets updated from here - Cold War UK
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