1981: Booking Your Space in a Nuclear Bunker | Classic BBC Clips | BBC Archive
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- In this clip from Newsroom File, Andrew Harvey investigates the phenomenon of private nuclear bunkers, for which people could pay a premium and book their spaces when the bombs fell.
Includes disgruntled locals, the Advertising Standards Agency, the threat of marauding armed gangs, the Almondsbury Motorway Interchange and some great 80s synth.
Originally broadcast as Newsroom File: Going Underground,13 March, 1981.
You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of tv to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic tv clips from the BBC vaults.
Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive - www.youtube.co...
This intro to Fallout 5 is great!
I always find it hilarious that people think there'd be anything left worth living for.
Listen to that opening paragraph in the voice of Alan Partridge... Lovely stuff
An interesting video. A video of its time. The Chap complaining that the roads would be 'jammed up' with thousands of cars with people trying to get to the bunker didn't really get it. If people were trying to get to the bunker, 'The Bomb' would have been dropped or at least it was imminent. A stream of cars on the roads would be the least of his/their worries by that point.
Classic BBC Great video, thanks
In 1981, seemingly out of the blue, appeared Rusepalm Developments, the UK arm of Douvaine Investments, a Jersey registered company. Doom City had arrived with the slogan “stump up 2,000 quid and you will be saved from the universal rotisserie”. The chairman of Rusepalm was Maureen Whittart, a woman of such Walkyric demeanour that she terrified the BBC reporter who went down into the mine with her; likewise, judging from his speech in the Commons, our local M.P. Richard Needham (Hansard 11.05.91)
5:02 "Balls, he called me out. I don't know, I made it up on the spot as it sounded good, now I have to make stuff up"
the rep at 7:06 too
Vault-tec before Vault-tec
Tell me you filmed this at the height of the Cold War without telling me it's the height of the Cold War.
It says 1981.
@@flaggerify I think you might have missed the joke.
@@c.j.nyssen6987 No. I know it's a tik tok expression.
0:45
Blake's 7 S01E01 - The Way Back
I thought I'd seen that before
I wonder what they were going to spend their £21 million on after the nuclear holocaust? 🤔
Exactly! ... It might be a while before the banks and shops open again after nuclear armageddon! 🤣
Fools they didn't store nuke-cola caps🤣
Maureen was a happy little soul wasn't she!
Shops will all be Sunday hours as well!!!.......🏡..👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫✍🏼
Looks like this is known as the "Burlington bunker", amongst other code names - it's the only reference I can now find - Garston isn't mentioned anywhere, but it's within Corsham, and the RAF base.
This maze of tunnels is also a government facility and was long before this video was made, apparently it would only be for government in an emergency. Also, it looks like the site is actually being sold off to private investors, but that was in the 2000's, not in 1981.
More info here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Government_War_Headquarters
Something doesn't seem quite right about this video at all - I can find no reference to the private company. Very interesting!
If this is actually a factually correct video, then that company - Duvain? Duvane? - totally seemed like shysters to me, we are talking the start of the 80's here, well known for all sorts of super dodgy and ridiculously obvious real estate scams. Of course, they still happen - just with more sophistication these days ;)
That blonde lady is just a horror show of a person, isn't she? My word.
Even if nuclear war had happened back then, when the message went out to the population hours or maybe days before an imminent strike, there's no way anyone is going to be able to make it to this site unless they lived close by!
Anyone in the South East trying to get there, would be overwhelmed by the mass panic that would ensue, as everyone took to the roads to attempt to find somewhere to escape ... the unescapable.
The military would also be out in force, guarding key infrastructure - which includes road and rail links.
It seems glaringly obvious that there's secret bunkers we'll never hear about - this was one of them, but it isn't anymore and hasn't been for decades - I'm sure there's far more sophisticated facilities for the elite few. In fact, this site could've been used as a "decoy" back then - and perhaps this report is part of that deception. That whilst it exists, it was never going to be used as a bunker, as other better places existed - rather, it would serve to throw people off the scent.
It was Douvaine Investments and Rusepalm was the UK arm of the company. There is no trace of it on Companies House. There are books on Google that provide more detail. Seems as though the company went belly up very quickly, owing millions and Maureen Whittart vanished. I can find no trace of her anywhere since 1981. Presumably, she changed her name. She would be 84/85 if alive today.
@@noplace82 Great research there! - so potentially, it was some sort of real estate scam, however, it does seem super odd that this report was made, as by all indications, the site was not up for sale in 1981. The site was only declassified in 2004.
We'll probably never know the full story behind this. The report itself is a little bit dull, but what it suggests reading between the lines is far from dull.
Because I enjoy the "tin foil hat" conspiracy fun, I'll partially jokingly keep that idea this was part of a government process to purposefully sow disinformation. Makes a much more interesting story 😎
@@noplace82 They were Jersey based so there wouldn't be. jersey has been home to shady off shore scam artisst since the middle ages
@matthewtrow5698 The site was never owned by Douvaine or Rusepalm, but was sold to EMF Farming in 1975. It wasn't the whole site that you referred to as Burlington Bunker, but the caves were within the MoD site. The question of ownership only came to light after Rusepalm pulled out.
The site was acquired by Octavian Ltd in the late 80s and has been used since as storage for valuable wines.
What I found a little suspicious, was that, prior to the Nuclear bunker idea, Douvaine (Jersey) had planned to use it as storage anyway and one of the Directors of Octavian Ltd was based in Jersey - I have no idea if he was linked to Douvaine though.
Burlington, known as CHANTICLEER at the time, was a few miles away.
Ironically, this quarry would unlikely to have survived, what with it being so close to CHANTICLEER and therefore a primary nuclear target.
"... security with insecurity", ironically sums it up!
No, it's 'security WITHIN security'
To the people of 1981, don't worry.
This whole thing will blow over 🤔
..ah, you'll be fine.
Mr Blatchford - from Blatcon limited...... BlatCon 🤣 Attack from who? "I don't know".
Solid Sales 'Ditch'
It is obviously a scam. What good would money be after the end? So the company actually doesn't believe it will ever happen or they wouldn't want the money!
Will you have to resort to using CS gas?? …… I hope not…err yes I think so.
Now owned by a company called Octavian where they store fine wines
ruclips.net/video/ALHrquAfq6o/видео.html
Imagine a nuclear war and only the wine survived. No one alive left to drink it.
but can u get there in time ? nope !
Currently "world’s leading fine wine storage facility" - I imagine they still have the armed guards......
An older gentleman told me hes been to a nuclear bunker in England. Looked just like a rock until you knocked on it.
Bugger is going to have me looking at rocks for the rest of my lide!
Ironically, it would unlikely to have survived, what with it being so close to CHANTICLEER and therefore a primary nuclear target.
This video is the answer for anyone wondering why UKs Gen X had a nihilistic outlook!
I was told that the early AI computer system 'Bournemouth' was housed at this bunker before escaping.
I'm really interested in the woman who talked about using tear gas is and what happened to her.
Maureen Whittart pretty much vanished after the plan fell through and Rusepalm went under, with a lot of debt. She moved to Spain with her husband and died in Andalucia in 2010.
Her hairstyle is now preserved in Kelvin Hatch Museum as the 'Mushroom'
…and Eran would be kept alive too?
booked .. can't wait !
Typical NIMBY attitude, more worried about the traffic congestion and parking than nuclear war!
Yeah, us boomers and gen-xer's had it so easy. The constant threat of nuclear war, that was fun.
I certainly don't want anybody with small arms getting me
Like a T-rex you mean?
When did they go belly up?
A couple of months later.
Why would you want to survive?!
I wonder if this business ever got off the ground 😂
Its now used as an underground , temp controlled wine cellar for the rich. I kid you not.
why would you want to survive a nuclear war? much better to be painlessly vapourised in the first salvo.
I'd be rather dead than living in an underground bunker after a nuclear fall out..😬
Interesting how looks this bunkers now. I is think company is bancroted.
Might as well buy a cave, there'd be nothing else to buy.😢
Have to hand it to the woman in the big fur coat. Making a killing out of armageddon is genius.
9:46 "You are better off in your own home"
I think you'd be better off dead
2:48 Keith Lard's dad
dont you miss THIS version of bbc? no fancy wokeness, mis-representations to appease the minority. just content
you mean "it was better when we had racism" don't you?
@@stewartellinson8846 yep
Back when it was just privileged, patronising posh people telling us what to think and do?