'I own a war bunker in the countryside - here's why I'm selling it despite WW3 fears’

By Grace Piercy, News Reporter

A antheral is selling the 'nuclear' bunker connected his workplace (Image: Brown & Co)

A Norfolk antheral is selling the “nuclear” bunker connected his workplace amid expanding tensions with Russia.

Fred Sharman, 64, is simply a 4th procreation husbandman connected 380 acres of arable and livestock farmland adjacent Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

He told the Express that the bunker was enactment successful during the 1950s by the Royal Observer Corps (ROC), a civilian defence organisation that tracked craft movements and reported accusation to the RAF.

The ROC would thatch cadets to bash this astatine the bunker, which Farmer Fred remembers seeing arsenic a boy.

He said: “We’re lone 3 miles from the coast, truthful if the Germans, oregon aboriginal the Russians, invaded they mightiness bash it here.

“There’s tons similar this connected the East Anglian coast.”

The bunker is described arsenic for 3 radical during 'nuclear attack' (Image: Brown & Co)

Years later, the ROC would merchantability it to Fred’s begetter erstwhile it fell retired of use. It has been described arsenic “rare accidental to acquisition a portion of British post-war history” built for “three observers successful the lawsuit of a atomic attack”.

Two months ago, Fred was watching telly erstwhile helium saw a quality communicative astir idiosyncratic selling a bunker connected their land. He added: “I thought ‘I’ve got 1 of those’. And that 1 made a decent magnitude of wealth - £30,000.”

The husbandman says there’s been “lots of involvement connected societal media” aft helium enactment it up for auction, with radical saying they privation to unrecorded determination oregon usage it arsenic an creation studio. Fred would urge it to stargazers arsenic the country has wide unfastened skies and views for miles.

Fred said: “If I tin currency it successful I mightiness arsenic well. Even if atomic warfare comes, I privation to beryllium nether the weaponry alternatively than nether the ground. I don’t privation to beryllium the past one.”

Fred Sharman’s bunker adjacent Great Yarmouth is up for auction connected December 3 with a usher terms of betwixt £10,000 and £20,000 by Brown & Co.

This comes aft a Cold War epoch ex-Royal Observer Corps atomic bunker successful Pontefract, West Yorkshire, sold for £29,000 astatine an auction connected Thursday (November 21).

Former owner, Jon Graves, restored the 15-deep fallout structure - which was manned from 1964 to 1991 - aft purchasing it 3 years ago. He begrudgingly decided to enactment the military-grade hide-out nether the hammer, which was snapped up by an chartless proxy bidder.