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ARTS, CULTURE & TOURISM
Troywood, St Andrews
Fife, KY16 8QH
01333 310301
SCOTLAND’S
SECRET BUNKER
Scotland’s Secret Bunker isn’t
really much of a secret these
days, but for over 40 years this
bunker was hidden beneath
an
unassuming
Scottish
farmhouse. 24,000 square
feet
of
accommodation,
equivalent to the size of
two football pitches, was
designed to create a home
for the Government, had we
been faced with Nuclear War.
Today the site is a museum
unlike any other, depicting
how people would have lived
in these levels almost 100
feet underground. There are
various rooms containing
exhibitions for you to observe,
such as the RAF Operations
rooms where you can view the
command centre that almost
was. A chapel, the bedrooms
and even a BBC radio station
are all created in the greatest
detail, and there are Russian
Anti-Aircrafts and military
vehicles to see outside.
There’s also a restaurant
built into the original canteen,
with a fully-equipped kitchen
that was supposed to feed
300 persons simultaneously.
Finally, the bunker shop sells
a myriad of related ephemera
such as bullet key-rings,
t-shirts, videos and books.
