Essex man with ‘secret nuclear bunker’ able to go underground if Putin assaults
The secret nuclear bunker in Kelvedon Hatch (Image: Mike Parrish)
An Essex farmer who owns a former Government “secret nuclear bunker” says he and his household will stay in it “for as long as it takes” if Putin strikes the UK along with his missiles.
Mike Parrish, 76, from Kelvedon Hatch, close to Brentwood, instructed Express.co.uk that within the “eventuality” the UK turns into embroiled in a nuclear battle he and his household may shelter within the bunker for “25-30 years” and even longer, if the skin world remained contaminated.
The farmer, who’s the fifth technology of his household to stay on the farm, has “water buried under there” in addition to “tinned food” and even its personal “sewage system”, that will allow the occupants of the bunker to outlive a nuclear strike.
He bought the fortified shelter from the Government in 1994 after it had been decommissioned, however he didn’t wish to disclose what it price him.
Previously it was designated to be occupied by the Prime Minister and senior state officers, who would run the nation from underground, if Britain had suffered a nuclear assault.
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The plant room retains up the oxygen provide (Image: Mike Parrish)
At solely round 29 miles from Downing Street, the Essex farm was ideally positioned to be the Government’s headquarters if the nation was engulfed in radiation. The plot of land required to construct the bunker was forcibly bought by the state in 1952 throughout the early phases of the Cold War.
Detailing the deal, Mike mentioned: “Under the threat of compulsory purchase [the Government] took this 25 acres in the middle of the farm, bulldozed the hill away, built the bunker, put it back, and then we farmed over it so the Russians wouldn’t know it was here.”
He mentioned deciding who would get a spot within the secure haven can be a bit like drawing up a “wedding list”.
He defined: “When it comes down to it’s a wedding list, because you’d obviously have your parents… and you have your daughter.
“Well, do you have your daughter’s boyfriend? Well that would depend, it’s just like a wedding. Yeah, you probably would if they’ve been going out for a while.”
He continued: “But would you have the daughter’s boyfriend’s parents? Probably no. And so it’s sort of a wedding list.
“And then you get down to the bottom. And that’s when you want the chap who can change a light bulb. So that life can go on afterwards.”
The secret nuclear bunker is not as secret because it as soon as was (Image: Getty)
Incredibly, regardless of accessing a nuclear bolthole, Mike’s spouse instructed him she received’t be transferring down there if the worst occurs.
He mentioned: “My wife, for example, wouldn’t come down here. There’s nothing worse than being down here for six months, with not knowing much.
“And so she’s in the camp that would like to go and stay outside and see what’s what.”
However, Mike isn’t satisfied his spouse’s stance is a clever one.
He added: “But the reality of that [staying outside], when you delve into it, apart from superficially, is that you will get a dose of radiation and you’d die slowly over the next nine months of radiation or leukaemia or whatever.
“Outside there, you’ve got marauding gangs and they want your food, raping and pillaging, and it ain’t going to be fun.”
Even if Mike’s spouse doesn’t wish to take up her place, there are many others which have tried to safe a spot within the bunker for a hefty payment.
He revealed: “On 9/11, I had over 200 people… part of the deal was that in those days, we said for £30,000, we will guarantee your space, down in the bunker here for 10 years.”
Mike is able to transfer into the bunker if Putin strikes Britain with a nuclear weapon (Image: Getty)
The farmer, who now runs the ability as a museum, was fast to level out that “nobody converted” their expression of curiosity in securing a spot and paid the asking value.
However, with the battle in Ukraine persevering with to rage, Mike revealed that he’s as soon as once more been receiving correspondence from these fearful {that a} nuclear winter could also be on the horizon.
“So now we have the Ukraine… and we had 15 people this time. But of course, I’ve learned that I say ‘well, if you’ve got 500,000 in liquid assets, we will talk to you’.
“You are going to be down here for 10-15 years, you’re going to want lots of food.
“People are superficial, you know, they still think you go down underground, come up [the] next morning and carry on working – you won’t.
“If there is that sort of thing [a nuclear strike], and you’re going to be underground, and you’re going to be down there for as long as it takes.”
Now the positioning is used for impediment programs (Image: Mike Parrish)
The bunker, though operational, is the central characteristic of Mike’s exercise centre enterprise on the positioning.
He mentioned: “The bunker itself is a museum… vacationers clearly come and go spherical.
The tour takes about an hour and a half, for which they pay us a payment.
“We even have the zip wires and the excessive ropes on high as a result of when individuals come out for the day, they need one thing to do.
“The hour and a half it takes to go across the bunker, it wants one thing else. So now we have a youngsters’s excessive ropes journey course. We even have on the farm, the perfect mud run within the nation… now we have a wild forest, as we name it, the place Scout teams can spend a day operating via mud, doing different zip wires and different inconceivable objects to climb over.