1982: Inside DONCASTER's Secret NUCLEAR BUNKER | Nationwide | BBC Archive

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  • "In the event of a nuclear explosion, places like this will be absolutely useless."
    Nationwide reporter Pattie Coldwell joins a group of South Yorkshire residents on a tour around the Council's secret nuclear bunker in Doncaster. The trip has been organised by the leader of the local council, Roy Thwaites - who has been told he'll have a place in the bunker in the event of a nuclear attack - in order to demonstrate how ineffective it is.
    Originally broadcast 9 July, 1982.
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Комментарии • 57

  • @elysiumsexsmith
    @elysiumsexsmith Год назад +20

    I suspect that this is what inspired the scenes in Threads with the civil servants trapped in a bunker dying of starvation after the attack.

    • @rareblues78daddy
      @rareblues78daddy Год назад

      My thoughts exactly. Yeah, you're probably right.

    • @mericet39
      @mericet39 Год назад +4

      If I remember right, they died of suffocation. The ventilation failed.

    • @richardhoffmann179
      @richardhoffmann179 Год назад

      ​@@mericet39 I'd imagine the radiation would have played a part

  • @nortron_zero8994
    @nortron_zero8994 Год назад +25

    This is Dark. Chilling. Sarcastic and hilarious. Most British thing I've ever seen.

    • @rareblues78daddy
      @rareblues78daddy Год назад +5

      Don't forget. "Threads" came out two years later. It was the times, friend.

    • @purefoldnz3070
      @purefoldnz3070 Год назад

      might need to dust this off.

  • @hunyesmith03
    @hunyesmith03 7 месяцев назад +5

    2:41 Now we know where, or should I say who David Williams got his inspiration from.

  • @YinWhoo-zx2sz
    @YinWhoo-zx2sz 5 месяцев назад +2

    R.I.P. Pattie Coldwell

  • @dillboticus9563
    @dillboticus9563 3 месяца назад +1

    A few beers in the back of a Van, singing songs and watching the country side slide by… looks like a nice time

  • @wolfgangfierce9559
    @wolfgangfierce9559 Год назад +5

    I always heard there was a secret tunnel from the public toilets in town all the way to Cusworth Hall! This may be evidence of such a tunnel!

  • @davedogge2280
    @davedogge2280 Год назад +16

    Could still be handy in this day and age ...

    • @SBAYLISS
      @SBAYLISS Год назад +3

      The country’s in a state now could you imagine after a nuclear strike it would be a living hell for how long you lasted if it happens best go in first strike imho.

    • @TinLeadHammer
      @TinLeadHammer Год назад +3

      @@SBAYLISS Punctuation?

    • @Mr-kn6uk
      @Mr-kn6uk 4 месяца назад +1

      For what? Growing magic mushrooms, dope plants

  • @Pepperroni_McRoni
    @Pepperroni_McRoni Год назад +5

    0:34 Really scary

  • @jasonayres
    @jasonayres Год назад +12

    Ah, memories of local councils, assuring people that "(insert council name) IS A NUCLEAR FREE ZONE."
    I remember asking my dad, at about this time actually, what we should do if the Soviets dropped "the bomb".
    Dad; Pull up a chair.

    • @blisston
      @blisston Год назад +5

      As he got the bus into Manchester and passed by the ‘Manchester, A Nuclear Free City’ welcome signs (emblazoned with a white dove), my grandad would quip: ‘I hope someone’s told the Russians’

  • @chrisst8922
    @chrisst8922 Год назад +2

    You can't miss it. On the A604 on the way to Rotherham just past the filling staion.. If you get to Ilkley you've gone too far.

    • @smadaf
      @smadaf Год назад +1

      I don't know. When I drive past interesting sites, I tend to miss them if they're under ground.

  • @notreallydavid
    @notreallydavid Год назад +3

    Museum of Yorkshire Death

  • @SchizoMelody
    @SchizoMelody 3 месяца назад

    The council is just mad that their bunker is under supplied... They're pretending to be against nukes, but they really want a more posh bunker!

  • @LewisLarsen
    @LewisLarsen Год назад +3

    Was the bunker eventually decommissioned?

  • @ctcurry1777
    @ctcurry1777 Год назад +3

    80 people would not survive a month without a warehouse full of food and water.

  • @odakyuodakyu6650
    @odakyuodakyu6650 3 месяца назад

    4:13 aint that an earthing cable?

  • @thomasm1964
    @thomasm1964 Год назад +8

    I reember Labour's Nuclear-Free Zones. They never did explain how their bold signs woud prevent a nuclear bomb from exploding in the "protected" zones. I always assumed that Labour:
    a. thought nuclear bombs could read
    b. believed nuclear bombs would be sufficiently well-mannered to respect polite requests not to explode over or otherwise contaminate self-declared nuclear-free zones.
    c. were bonkers
    d. were incapable of understanding that MAD was not about promoting war but about preventing one: speak softly and carry a big stick works far better against any bully from the playground upwards than speak softly but " I can't defend myself if you choose to ignore my soft speaking".

    • @smile768
      @smile768 Год назад +1

      e. All of the above require logical thought processes to understand. Labour councils struggle in this department.

    • @thomasm1964
      @thomasm1964 Год назад +1

      @@smile768 So true!

    • @TammoKorsai
      @TammoKorsai Год назад +4

      @@smile768 So do the Tories. They keep trashing my city's budget and give themselves pay rises.

    • @sauceofjoy
      @sauceofjoy 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@TammoKorsai same where I am, pretty sure the MP for here doesn't even know where the town is

  • @mandymichaels6131
    @mandymichaels6131 Год назад +2

    That Orange van is like watching the Singles on Emmerdale driving up the drive.

  • @Mooocheropordis
    @Mooocheropordis Год назад +1

    Think I would stay up stairs in the big house, find the booze cupboard and got comfy for the few days left. Who sayd ammageddon has to be uncomfortable!

  • @stephenholmes1036
    @stephenholmes1036 3 месяца назад

    Watch the war game and threads

  • @zaftra
    @zaftra Год назад +1

    left to these lot there would be no deterrent to poootin

  • @aeiouxs
    @aeiouxs Год назад +8

    I'm not sure what's more depressing: a neverending nuclear winter, or 10 minutes in a nuclear bunker with dull Yorkshiremen... 🤔

    • @ActuallyHoudini
      @ActuallyHoudini Год назад +4

      i'd rather be a pile of eradiated ashes that spend more than a week with someone from yorkshire. i have to say, its one of the dullest places i've ever been. i say this as someone from the east midlands, as well.

    • @notreallydavid
      @notreallydavid Год назад +1

      As a dull Yorkshireman I sympathise with your predicament.

  • @brucenicoll4373
    @brucenicoll4373 Год назад +1

    Very cool I think Americans needs to get a few of these

  • @hadrianbole9147
    @hadrianbole9147 Год назад +2

    Ahh the BBC unbiased since ................... ......... Ah fooook

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt Год назад +2

    0:16 kid looks bloody terrified.
    That AWFUL feckin song On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at - I remember as a kid at the posh school I endured (thankfully got only three years) some maniacally smiling posh kid stood up in assembly one morning in the early 80s and sang it. This was a posh school in Guildford Surrey, I might add. It’s like the Americans all Claiming Irish heritage, the monied of Surrey claiming Yorkshire heritage.
    Nothing like painting yourself white and ducking under a school desk to deflect the 1000 megaton blast 😂

    • @smadaf
      @smadaf Год назад +1

      Please, say "posh" some more.

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    @nigelwoodley3656 Год назад

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  • @davidbolger2000AD
    @davidbolger2000AD Год назад

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