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Went there back in May with a group of friends.
One of our friends knows the site owner & arranged a tour for us.
The Landowner is a great man & was really nice to take us for a tour of the site.
Very nice chap had so much information bless him :)
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Did he tell you the story of how he came to own the site?
Also you made getting out of the tower look easy, I found that first ladder on the way out quite difficult.
Enjoyed that very much and would never have seen that if you havent shared it With us all. Thanks for doing that and Greetings from WW2HistoryHunter
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The single core storage hutches were for plutonium cores. The double core storage hutches were for Cobalt / Plutonium cores, neutron bombs which we didn't have but we now know that we did !!!!. The dates on the outside were basically 'best before' dates dates. Thermonuclear weapons have a very limited shelf life due to the decay of the components in the physics packages.
That was cool! Those might still be radioactive, i don't know that much about the breakdown of radioactive isotopes. Thank you for showin us around.
Been here about 2 years ago great place to visit. Still has an original watch tower in place . Mainly used as an industrial estate now .
Lenny our new mascot
the place still had a lot of security during mid to late 70s,i worked with people who knew more,but no one would tell.
Should go wander up around Gretna and Longmoor, an incredible network of old Admiralty storage facilities and armament factories in what was in the area one epic sized factory to make things that went bang, so huge it had between Longmoor and Eastrigg its own railway line running under the WCML and could using Longmoors circuitous railway network connect to the WCML and the Waverley line or the Gretna-Dumfries line making it very easy to send out armament trains. Further west is a place called Cairnryan which had the Navy address of "1 Davy Jones Locker" as its postal address lol
Love how much history you find out and then explain it. Just makes the videos more special knowing what your eploring.
The watchtower alone is enough reason to visit this site. The storage containment sheds are great too. Very interesting to see.
Thanks for that one, really enjoyed it...
Amazing bit of historical history there iks
I went to an English Heritage members event there last year, Called Dr Strangelove or something similar. I travelled from Nottingham and slept in my camper van locally. Turned out to be a waste of time, two other people (from Australia) arrived also, the three of us waited for an hour or more. The Australian lady managed to phone English Heritage and found out the event was cancelled owing to a lack of interest!! The Australians were Cold War history enthusiasts and were here to see where the UK bombs were stored etc.. They had been to Woomera and had seen some test sites in Australia, I was very sorry and disappointed for them and myself very annoyed! A man in a van did come and let himself in, he worked on the industrial estate but couldn't allow us in, he sympathised with us though. I live not too far from RAF Faldingworth which is the sister site, absolutely no chance of getting in there! I enquired.
I enjoy watching your vids
This was an ace explore - thanks!
Great this video
very interesting and well presented video peeps thx for sharing
I really enjoyed this video. Thanks
Brilliant explore, one of your best. It reminds me of my lucky trip to Harwell many years back. Best wishes, Paul in Lower Boddington
Sounds interesting Paul, what is Harwell? heard it mentioned a few times but l know nothing about it.
Harwell is a nuclear power plant in Oxford. It was used for experimentation and weapons research. I don't know the accessibility now, it's been a few years since I went there. Best wishes.
@@paulcarpenter2800 Ok cool. Thank you for taking the time to reply. ATB
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Loved this video folks, where was this place?
That wasn't a gate, as in mesh, I think, from the size it would've been concrete anti entry crash barrier, designed to stop up to large trucks from breaking through into the gate area.
You'd never have got me up the tower let alone walking around that parapet, good on you Ian.
The wires under the railings was to ensure you didn't go off the pathways when moving fissile trigger material to prevent fissile reaction.
The smaller building was where the fissile material was installed in the trigger units which had explosives in it to compress the material.
I'm glad that you understood that the fissile material was not called 'Fission' and the 'samples' are not taken to be an 'atom'. Ha ha bless him. I really enjoyed this video though. I'd love to go there. Have you been to this place Sam or do you have a connection to it or the UK Nuclear Weapons program?
I actually never realised that cores or fissile material was stored like that above ground in a little brick hut in a casing sunk into the floor! The radioactive sources at our local DSTL establishment are stored like that so I guess it makes sense, however I just never imagined it to be like that with something so important. It was pretty mad just getting into Aldermaston and I was supposed to be there so I imagined all the fissile material to be in seriousus bunkers and such. I live next to RNAD Frater where the Nuclear Depth Charges (and whatever else) were stored for the Navy, and the bunkers there for any of the weapons are pretty beastly. I used to always marvel at what came across from there when we ammunitioned ship in the Navy!!! We used to get chucked out from the public land round the back by the fence by the MOD security as kids. Even if we were trying to go fishing in the harbour. They didn't even like us round the back bit at all and there was some cool looking stuff round there. I just remember living in the middle of so much military land and the Nuclear siren being tested every Monday morning at around 1000!!! We have Fort Monckton and Fort Nelson/Fort Southwick and the training establishments and not to mention the Dockyard so we were toast during a Nuclear exchange for sure...holy cow ha ha. The Kinetic place is here where the hydrodynamic test tank is for the submarines and warship hulls, the DSTL places and whatever else is here. Even being in the military we couldn't be told what was happening at some of the places.
Oh and they filmed some of Transfomers 5 at the Submarine Museum just down the road from my house in Gosport and we also have Explosion Musuem which was the old Royal Armouries.Its Death by big bang city in this town ha ha
Is it me or is that a shape of a face/skull on the door at 22.50 just up from the lock.
Great use of your drone mixed in with the ground level footage
Text on huts: "Date of last lightning conductor test April 63" "63" is on top of partially visible previous date.
so good i had to watch it three times
Great video as always but the adverts are a bit annoying 🙂 keep the good work
Awesome video guys, another classic IKS Gem. And we probably wouldn't be the only ones to buy, should they ever be on offer, a dog or cat IKS jacket with IKS K9 patrol or Kitty Patrol or pups on patrol or kitty on patrol or even IKS exploration dog or cat written on them. Providing they go out to a giant Labrador size 😊
Wow, what a interesting place, i believe this is a listed status site :)
Great video as always, was researching this place recently so good to see it thoroughly. Heard the landowner is a very helpful gentleman. Should have taken the dosimeter for those plutonium stores! There are some facilities surviving at Foulness in Essex for the development of Britain's first atomic and hydrogen bombs with a great Historic England report about them, shame its all on MoD land so nobody has been able to see inside yet. Maybe one day...
is the dog available through the mech store ???
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Great vid guys, cool place. Loving Lenny, he's keen!
not far from Thetford oranges 😂
The Blue Danube was a "Small Boy" based design. It was tested over here at Maralinga if you want to see what it could do when it went "BANG"! LoL
Details:. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Danube_(nuclear_weapon)
What is that place being used for now see all these cars and trucks sitting around.
Estate for companies now
Used to be mushroom farm
Wow nice long vid got a ?? About the time u up lode I have noticed that I get it at midnight or one in the am do I do it at 6 b4 u go to work by the time I see it there's always a ton of views and comments 😉 lol love waking up to them
15:30 That thing looks like the cover of a freakin' nuclear reactor, a smaller one from a submarine. Probably it's something completely different, hopefully.
Jesus folks. Truly amazing.
At 5:23 IKS new torch 🔦 batteries available on ebay. When I worked in ICI, Nobels Explosives those banks of earth that the buildings are built into in a similar way to the explosives factory, in that if one hut/building were to be ignited then the banks of earth would force the explosion upwards so as not to set off the neighbouring buildings causing a chain reaction. If the banking were not there then most of the place you explored would have been levelled. Those probably retired or not alive now, planned ahead in a what if scenario.
You should do tours
From that tower with a proper scope you could pick someone off from a long way down that corridor !!!
that is kind of the point...
Anybody else see the skull on the door at 22:55
Lenny is so lovely. My wife & I have got a staffie & if the 2 were facing each other, they would be mirror images. By the way Ian, a good video as oer norm
It looks like the pedestrian entrance described around 10:50 has been heavily (but tastefully) modified with a concrete saw. It probably contained bricked wickets through which entrants presented I.D. Etc, for scrutiny instead of a desk. The evidence is the spacing of mortar left on the ceiling.
Aww Lenny is gorgeous 😍
Thank you :)
Fantastic place guys lets hope it doesn’t get sold off for housing 🤞🤞
Why not bring a radioactive detector ????
was thinking the same plus a mask googles and gloves in case of contamination
07:30 "it's perfectly safe"....he says from the inside of the watch tower!! Let's be honest...it looks sketchy AF 😂💯👍🏼
I was feeling sketchy lol
It feels spongy in places I'll admit
all it needs is a lick of paint - it could be operational in no time ;)
And sent to Opelika Alabama USA
been there when i used to drive a truck
Another NSS storage site was close to RAF Gaydon at Lighthorne www.google.com/maps/@52.1869114,-1.5357233,606m/data=!3m1!1e3 It is now the British Film Archive cryo storage unit and inaccessible but I did get some photos of the hutches some years ago when you could walk in.
Number 3 I'm slipping! 😕
hey very nice Video no Vandalismus the window its ok no Graffiti nice
big pits are emergency water supply
Nice video guys 👍 are you going to war and peace again this year we have a stall there called RIF-RAF model's hope to see you there
Yeah wed to Friday folk
Ok we are in plot Q14 guys hope to see you there we are just leaving Scotland now
Hello brother of England love your CZcamsr's stuff how much for a English flag with your groups signters on it
What the heck is that thing moving at 28:51 ?
im surprised you weren't carrying a Geiger on you
"Then they go down the road and place it in an atom" or whatever.
Similar to what I've seen in Germany
At Time Stamp 12:10, What kind of a plane could carry that whopper of a bomb ???
The Blue Danube was designed to be carried by the Vickers Valiant, the first of Britain's 'V' Bombers. The other two were the Avro Vulcan, and Handley Page Victor. All three could have carried it, but by the time they came into service, the Blue Danube had been replaced by the Blue Steel 'Stand Off' weapon.
Victor, Valiant or Vulcan. They were our frontline nuclear bombers
Carried by Vickers Valiant, Victor and Avro Vulcan
More underground, this kind of exploring can be a bit boring to me. Don't get me wrong, you guys are great! I just keep waiting for you to open a door and go down into subterranean history.
22:20 The British Nuclear Toilet
Great video IKS awesome place👍 I wonder if there is still alittle bit of radiation in there🤔
There shouldn't be any, do some research on nuclear weapons and you will see that the weapons themselves are very safe until you WANT them to be deadly! You could blow the explosives in one up and if not set up to go Nuclear, they would not. So you could stand just outside of the range of the explosive charge and be perfect,y fine.
Nuclear weapons are not dangerous, unless used in anger. Obviously precautions were taken, but the chances of radiation exposure is pretty much nil.
No1. Sorry I had to
Nuclear propaganda goes deep, the herd is oblivious
a few years they found underground tunnels behind a wall i think it was when they were renovations
Really?
The most secure porta-potties I have ever seen.
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