Keep it secret, keep it safe ...

[tamaranth]

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Originally uploaded by tamaranth

Redefining 'secret' in Essex. There are frequent, high-visibility signs to this local tourist attraction. Also a website with a cryptic URL.

No, I didn't go in. I was headed for BEACH. With K.

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[autopope.livejournal.com]

There's one of those in Fife, too.

With a cat-flap in the Secretary-of-State's bedroom door (for the caretaker's mouser) ...

[fishlifter.livejournal.com]

I've driven past those signs many times but, also, never gone in...

[lj_stowaway]

They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means...

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

we're having lunch with a bunker* on Wednesday; luckily not *in* the bunker...

* they're popular with hosting and security companies, for the publicity at least

[asynje.livejournal.com]

Hææ. I especially like the mention of refreshments. Because that is totally the first thing I think of when I hear about secret nuclear bunkers.

[molly-brown.livejournal.com]

I've been there. It's actually very interesting (and depressing, of course).

I was especially interested in the old public information films advising you what to do if the warning sounds, though I eventually came to the conclusion most of the things you were supposed to do during and after a nuclear attack -- like making your own fallout shelter out of a door and some blankets (yeah, that'll protect you) -- were merely "busy work" designed to keep the proles occupied until they died of radiation sickness a few days later. But maybe I'm a cynic.

I wouldn't get too excited about the "refreshments" advertised on the sign -- unless you're *really* into sandwiches -- but otherwise it's definitely worth a visit.

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

have been there =was well worth trip