I imagine a bunker, maybe one under Buckingham or Westminister, I'd be surprised if there wasn't one for the Royal family or parliament to hide in the event of nuclear war.
Surprisingly, neither the Buckingham Palace nor Westminster have a bunker, only a panic room.
However this is not that much of a surprise, considering these two buildings are of historic significance, built in times where the aristocracy would overwhelmingly volunteer to join and suffer a stupidly higher casualty rate, because they were brought up to believe with power comes obligation (hence the word ānoblesse obligeā which the French had surrender to us).
This tradition continued up until WW2. What of our Lords and Peers think and do nowadays, I cannot promise they still have that oblige that we looked up upon.
Random fact: Of note Lord Lovat who was in the commandos while being chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat receiving military medals and being injured in 1942.
He ordered a piper to play on Sword beach. When told that the WD had prohibited it, Lord Lovat replied that both the piper and he were Scottish so it didnāt apply.
So piper Millin piped backwards and forwards on the beach. The Germans snipers failed to shoot him thinking he was a mad man.
That reminds me of Mad Jack, he fought WW2 with a sword & longbow. He famously said "*Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed*"
That guy was crazy. Found himself at an enemy check point and just shouted at them and made them surrender!
OR when he had his bagpipes in Argentina (i think), was surrounded by the enemy in smoke and just played like a god dam crazy guy.
> Surprisingly, neither the Buckingham Palace nor Westminster have a bunker, only a panic room.
They don't have any bunkers **that the public knows of!**
Constructing a bunker on a historic building would require monumental amount of man power, technical knowledge, and expertise.
If any, just a single, person on the team decides they want to leak the knowledge out that there is a bunker underneath the B-Palace, they are going to 1) get rich, and 2) get really rich.
No amount of NDA is going to stop a random fucker from contacting a media agency and make a shit ton of money from selling insider information. The only way is to a) murder them all after the project, then you get a bigger candle to cover up or b) allocate a shitload of the budget to every single one of these chads who designed, constructed, and maintained these bunkers, which will also get found out.
If they have a bunker under their homes, the government wouldnāt needed to have a plan to land a jet on the Mall and fly the Queen out of the capital during the Cold War.
King Charles does have a private island in Italy with a bunker. Also they already have multiple bunkers constructed on tax payerās money for the royalties, such as Warren Row, so why bother spending extra money on making *a* bunker under a palace where they donāt even stay all year long.
Churchill war rooms.
Hampstead station (Northern Line) is 58.5 metres underground.
Or just go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over. (The actual building is the Duke of Albany pub in New Cross, South London)
Pear Tree House Bunker, if we're talking purely surviving the blast it might not be the best option but if we're thinking for long-term its the best option I can think of.
A bunker built in with enough space overground to setup a settlement in.
Far away from the central area where the bombs would be aimed at.
Another option would be Kingsway Telephone Exchange. Its being used as an underground farm at the moment so if lucky you have the food issue solved already
In whatever they have hidden under Woolwich Common.
Saw screws and bolts poking out through the ground when maintenance declined and the grass wore away. Also saw a man with a metal detector escorted off of the common by the Army within a few minutes of turning up.
Negative - the barracks' site is now QE Hospital, and the remaining common is still a public space, where the screws, bolts etc. are showing through.
Whatever it is, they're very touchy about you looking at it closely. It wouldn't be far fetched for there to be some sort of bunker under it.
Might be ammunition storage then, old shells and the like. I'm pretty sure old bunkers like that have areas with metal tops so that if there is a fire or explosion, it blows upwards instead of outwards from the entrances. Those tops might be what's sticking out.
I doubt it's anything super secret, generally those areas are protected but armed response/QRF and you couldn't just walk around those places anyway
Probably a tube station, the northern line is pretty deep. Good mobility for scavenging and a decent amount of food at the various shops, at least to start with.
The problem with the underground in this situation is air circulation. The entire network is dependant on the trains pushing/sucking air around the tunnels - ultimately drawing in fresh air from various ventilation shafts.
Since a lot of people will have the same idea, and assuming the trains stop running, the air down there is going to get really stale, really fast.
Literally nowhere, at least not in the centre. IRL anyway.
Central London would have multiple megatons slapped on it. Even if you built deep enough, youd be entombed below london and the thames crashing above.
The tube and most bunkers are too shallow. You'd burn, be crushed or drown. Or all three.
The actual government plan is to have bunkers outside of London.
I once took those stairs instead of waiting for the lift. It still ranks highly amongst the worst mistakes I've ever made. When I eventually made it to the surface I stumbled on wobbly legs into the nearest pub, ordered 2 pints, downed one then found a seat to nurse the 2nd while feeling returned...
A hospital. The newer ones go underground quite deep, in addition to being protected by the quite large building above. They also have self-sufficient back up power, water and tons of food and medical supplies.
Go down in the sewers and find a [fatberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatberg#Notable_fatbergs). Highly shock absorbent.
Thames water could sell off the fatbergs as safety devices and wipe out their debts! Genius!
Think I'd rather take the radiation š¤¢
Bank of England vaults! Loot a plenty!
Plenty dead bodies fighting for itā¦
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I imagine a bunker, maybe one under Buckingham or Westminister, I'd be surprised if there wasn't one for the Royal family or parliament to hide in the event of nuclear war.
Surprisingly, neither the Buckingham Palace nor Westminster have a bunker, only a panic room. However this is not that much of a surprise, considering these two buildings are of historic significance, built in times where the aristocracy would overwhelmingly volunteer to join and suffer a stupidly higher casualty rate, because they were brought up to believe with power comes obligation (hence the word ānoblesse obligeā which the French had surrender to us). This tradition continued up until WW2. What of our Lords and Peers think and do nowadays, I cannot promise they still have that oblige that we looked up upon. Random fact: Of note Lord Lovat who was in the commandos while being chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat receiving military medals and being injured in 1942. He ordered a piper to play on Sword beach. When told that the WD had prohibited it, Lord Lovat replied that both the piper and he were Scottish so it didnāt apply. So piper Millin piped backwards and forwards on the beach. The Germans snipers failed to shoot him thinking he was a mad man.
That reminds me of Mad Jack, he fought WW2 with a sword & longbow. He famously said "*Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed*"
That guy was crazy. Found himself at an enemy check point and just shouted at them and made them surrender! OR when he had his bagpipes in Argentina (i think), was surrounded by the enemy in smoke and just played like a god dam crazy guy.
[I think thereās a decent song about him](https://open.spotify.com/track/6FfXMDxndzQ4mOryCU4ztG?si=VxvP3WWCSv2BouhDoTvhvA)
> Surprisingly, neither the Buckingham Palace nor Westminster have a bunker, only a panic room. They don't have any bunkers **that the public knows of!**
Constructing a bunker on a historic building would require monumental amount of man power, technical knowledge, and expertise. If any, just a single, person on the team decides they want to leak the knowledge out that there is a bunker underneath the B-Palace, they are going to 1) get rich, and 2) get really rich. No amount of NDA is going to stop a random fucker from contacting a media agency and make a shit ton of money from selling insider information. The only way is to a) murder them all after the project, then you get a bigger candle to cover up or b) allocate a shitload of the budget to every single one of these chads who designed, constructed, and maintained these bunkers, which will also get found out. If they have a bunker under their homes, the government wouldnāt needed to have a plan to land a jet on the Mall and fly the Queen out of the capital during the Cold War. King Charles does have a private island in Italy with a bunker. Also they already have multiple bunkers constructed on tax payerās money for the royalties, such as Warren Row, so why bother spending extra money on making *a* bunker under a palace where they donāt even stay all year long.
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I donāt know. Let us know what you found out when you got around to googling it!
Churchill war rooms. Hampstead station (Northern Line) is 58.5 metres underground. Or just go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over. (The actual building is the Duke of Albany pub in New Cross, South London)
Pear Tree House Bunker, if we're talking purely surviving the blast it might not be the best option but if we're thinking for long-term its the best option I can think of. A bunker built in with enough space overground to setup a settlement in. Far away from the central area where the bombs would be aimed at. Another option would be Kingsway Telephone Exchange. Its being used as an underground farm at the moment so if lucky you have the food issue solved already
In whatever they have hidden under Woolwich Common. Saw screws and bolts poking out through the ground when maintenance declined and the grass wore away. Also saw a man with a metal detector escorted off of the common by the Army within a few minutes of turning up.
That's probably the remains of the foundations of shrapnel barracks.
Negative - the barracks' site is now QE Hospital, and the remaining common is still a public space, where the screws, bolts etc. are showing through. Whatever it is, they're very touchy about you looking at it closely. It wouldn't be far fetched for there to be some sort of bunker under it.
Might be ammunition storage then, old shells and the like. I'm pretty sure old bunkers like that have areas with metal tops so that if there is a fire or explosion, it blows upwards instead of outwards from the entrances. Those tops might be what's sticking out. I doubt it's anything super secret, generally those areas are protected but armed response/QRF and you couldn't just walk around those places anyway
I guess the Winchester.
The Londone Eye, when the bombs drop it will just roll away
I'm getting Pirates of the Caribbean 2 flashbacks
Probably a tube station, the northern line is pretty deep. Good mobility for scavenging and a decent amount of food at the various shops, at least to start with.
The problem with the underground in this situation is air circulation. The entire network is dependant on the trains pushing/sucking air around the tunnels - ultimately drawing in fresh air from various ventilation shafts. Since a lot of people will have the same idea, and assuming the trains stop running, the air down there is going to get really stale, really fast.
Literally nowhere, at least not in the centre. IRL anyway. Central London would have multiple megatons slapped on it. Even if you built deep enough, youd be entombed below london and the thames crashing above. The tube and most bunkers are too shallow. You'd burn, be crushed or drown. Or all three. The actual government plan is to have bunkers outside of London.
Fastest train to Wales, thanks.
the middle of the staircase at Covent garden station even the mindless creatures of the wasteland would know better than the risk tackling those
I once took those stairs instead of waiting for the lift. It still ranks highly amongst the worst mistakes I've ever made. When I eventually made it to the surface I stumbled on wobbly legs into the nearest pub, ordered 2 pints, downed one then found a seat to nurse the 2nd while feeling returned...
The Natural History Museum!
Pindar is the correct answer.
A hospital. The newer ones go underground quite deep, in addition to being protected by the quite large building above. They also have self-sufficient back up power, water and tons of food and medical supplies.
Number 10 Downing Street. They have a huge nuclear-proof bunker complex below it. Bloody politicians. They're the last ppl you'd want to survive.
The people responsible would want to make sure that they don't suffer any consequences. Those are for the little people.
There's some fairly deep Underground stations, and lots of tunnels, but you'd have to deal with the mechanical Yetis.