Cold war bunker stuck in time

Abandoned station looks just as it did 25 years ago

An eerie video shows the inside of a longforgotten nuclear bunker looking much like it would have done on the day it was abandoned.

The underground monitoring station, just a few miles from Dundee, still has pots and pans, mugs, and washing up liquid next to parts of Cold War communications technology.

Blankets are filmed rotting on the bunk beds exactly where they would have been left over a quarter of a century ago.

There is even a candle holder with the remains of a burned-out candle stuck in the base.

The video of the bunker was shared by Youtuber Urbex Pajerico, who was taken to the secret location by a fellow explorer last week.

Mr Pajerico is keeping the location secret as other bunkers have been trashed and even burned out by vandals.

Some have been transformed into homes and even a recording studio – but the one in Dundee could have been left yesterday.

Such stations were manned by members of the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) and one of their main purposes was to give the dreaded “four minute warning” in the case of a nuclear attack.

The bunker, 6ft underground, has been neglected and almost untouched for at least 26 years, since the Soviet Union fell in 1991.

The monitoring posts were sealed shut or demolished after the ROC stood down.

Mr Pajerico said: “I was invited to the site by a fellow urban explorer under the strict condition that it must remain secret. Mostly all Royal Observer Corps small posts in the UK are now destroyed by vandals who trash them and burn them out so it’s very important to keep this one as it is.

“Dundee is where the main headquarters was for this post and all the small ones within its grid would report to there, but the main HQ in Dundee is currently being restored by a charity and will be open to the public some day in the future.”

Last year a bunker in the Perthshire countryside went up for sale for £20,000, after being refashioned as a “man cave” and featuring a bespoke hatch.

Footage filmed by YouTuber Urbex Pajerico shows the entrance, plates, batteries, pots and pans and beds, largely untouched for a quarter of a century.