<div align="center"><span class="bbc_u"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Civil Defence County Headquarters Bunker Under Boulcotts Department Store</span></strong></span></div><br/>Since this is likely to come up in the story sooner or later I am providing floor plans for the bunker. The plans are not fully to scale, doors for instance are exaggerated.<br/><br/>In the basement of Boulcotts, hidden behind one of the shelves in the files store on the third level of the basement is a door that leads to the tunnel to the back door to the bunker. This tunnel is about two hundred yards or so long, plus or minus twenty yards and slopes down with a sharp turn at the end as a blast baffle. This hidden door and its tunnel will no doubt be discovered sooner or later. It has the old fifties civil defence logo stencilled on it and is a solid steel design but not otherwise anything special.<br/><br/>The blast doors shown on the floorplans are all tank armour grade steel and will require some finesse or brute strength to move, though they are all currently open.<br/><br/>Most of the supplies, including all telephone, television, radio, computer and other equipment was last updated in the mid nineties but is in place and functional. All the plant is functional though could use some maintenance. The bunker is watertight and shows no sign of flooding. It is lit and the air system cycles every half hour or so automatically. The bunker is clearly not totally decommissioned but does appear to be somewhat mothballed.<br/><br/>All stores are in place aside from those that should be in the armoury, which is currently empty.<br/><br/>The main operations room has a large map of the county in it as well as several maps of the country and of North America as a whole and is clearly intended for use to plan contingencies in the event of war.<br/><br/>The computers and phones all work, though the computers are all late nineties vintage. There is a bank of ISDN connections to the local town hall which are in unknown condition.<br/><br/>The tunnels that lead to the entrance blast doors are both around two hundred feet long and slope downwards gently. The bunker itself is clearly a good distance from the store due to the length of the tunnel.<br/><br/>The staircase that leads down to the lower level has a winch and pulley system that runs down the middle of it that can be used to lower heavy equipment down from the upper floor.<br/><br/>Each dorm has double bunk beds with footlockers and will hold around forty people.<br/><br/><br/>Any questions or comments about the bunker please yell at me in PM.<br/><br/><br/>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/bunker_upper.gif)<br/><sub>Upper floor of the bunker (click to expand)</sub><br/><br/>(http://www.zen90682.zen.co.uk/bunker_lower.gif)<br/><sub>Lower floor of the bunker (click to expand)</sub><br/><br/><br/><sub>Original source images that were adapted for use as the Romero Civil Defence County HQ Bunker were found  <strong>here</strong>  (http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/st_twynells/index.html).</sub>