Forgotten Historical Places and Cultural Sites Around the World

Brendan Conway – Blean Nuclear Bunker, Victory Wood, Kent

Opportunities to visit such nuclear bunkers are rare, but the community group Forgotten Front Line and the Woodland Trust recently arranged a day for public access. Although the structure itself, built in 1966, is not particularly remarkable, the experience of visiting it provides a glimpse back to the dark days of the cold war and what might have been. This is the welcome view as you climb up the ladder to the hatch