Inside Cold War nuclear bunker full of radiological devices only accessed by ladder – & could be yours for bargain sum

A COLD War-era bunker filled with radiological devices could beryllium yours for a bargain sum.

The underground atomic bunker was built during the Cold War and tin location up to 3 people.

The bunker is up for sale, soon to beryllium hitting the marketplace astatine conscionable £10,000.

Hidden beneath the aboveground successful a tract successful Repps-With-Bastwick, adjacent Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the unassuming operation looks similar thing much than a heap of rocks.

But what lies beneath is simply a relic from 1 of the astir unsafe periods successful modern history.

Constructed by the Ministry of Defence successful the 1950s and 60s, this bunker was portion of a web designed to withstand radiation successful the lawsuit of a atomic strike.

It was kitted retired with radiological instruments, allowing those wrong to observe and study atomic attacks during the tallness of tensions with the Soviet Union.

Although the underground abstraction tin clasp up to 3 radical it is acold from spacious.

Access is lone imaginable by descending a steep vertical ladder, which leads down into the bunker’s choky interior.

Inside, the main country is equipped with a table and the basal essentials that would person been utilized by the observers stationed there.

Trevor Blythe, auction manager astatine property cause Brown & Co, said:“This is simply a uncommon accidental to ain a portion of British post-war history.

"Observation posts similar the 1 we are selling were built to supply protective but highly constricted accommodation for 3 observers successful the lawsuit of a atomic attack.”

The auction for the bunker opens online astatine 11am connected November 12, with a usher terms acceptable betwixt £10,000 and £20,000.

For a collector of Cold War relics oregon a past buff, this hidden portion of past could beryllium the eventual find.

It comes aft a 1950s atomic bunker successful Cumbria deed the market.

House hunters were speedy to spot the antithetic listing and suggested it could beryllium a peculiarly utile portion of existent property 'the mode things are going astatine the moment' - presumably referring to the menace of nuclear warfare successful Europe.

Those fretting over President Putin's repeated atomic threats implicit the past 2 years since the penetration of Ukraine could instrumentality vantage of the property's lockable 'hatch', underground location, heavy walls and entree shaft.

Social media users branded the spot 'quirky' and 'the close size for a gaming cave', with others said that they 'love it' and hailed it 'deliciously weird'.

Meanwhile, a dada is digging a 35ft tunnel from his location to an underground barroom based connected The Great Escape.

Dave Billings, 43, took connected the situation to people the 80th anniversary of the celebrated Allied effort to escape a Nazi POW camp.