The official website will tell you all about it, be sure to pay it a visit. Be sure to have your PC's speakers on before you do. It says "Scotland’s best kept secret for over 40 years, Hidden beneath an innocent Scottish Farmhouse, a tunnel leads to, Scotland’s Secret Bunker. 24,000 square feet of Secret accommodation. The size of two football pitches, one on top of another, On two levels 100 feet underground."
We saw the funny tourist sign (the secret's out of the bag now), and just had to investigate.
Above ground is just a farm house, although the installation is surrounded by radars and barbed wire fences. The farm house is now the gift shop & ticket booth.
The walk into the bunker is first of all down stairs, then down a long inclined corridor.
It is massive below. There are long corridors with doors all over the place, on both levels. Having been there so long, so deep underground, it smells very musty and feels damp inside.
Various rooms have been recreated, including war rooms, communication rooms, the BBC's special studio (for when all other BBC is dead or destroyed!), accommodation for key government and military personnel, sleeping areas and so on.
As Helen and I are both interested in technology, it was rather amusing to see the technology they had in the old days, including fax machines the size of a large suitcase, giant computers, telephone switchboards, etc.
It was interesting so see what a place like this is like, and to see just how seriously they took the cold war back in its day. And if this is the type of technology they had then, secretly, then what do they have now?
We were a little pressed for time, so our tour was rushed, but we still spent over an hour underground and easily could have spent longer.
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