Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post ~ Everything You Need to Know with Photos | Videos

The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) were a group of uniformed civilians who manned bunkers across the country during the Cold War. Civil defence was key in calming fears of a nuclear attack, and attempted to offer hope and practical guidance for nuclear survival. Luckily, the ROC was never called upon, and they were stood down in 1991. After this, a group of Observers from the Edinburgh HQ gathered the almost complete contents of an underground monitoring post, and donated it to the collection at the

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