And the dreadful hectoring tone of the commentary.

If you're seeing thousands of cars in the Dales you can't be going further than Bolton Abbey !

Well, to be fair, there was an increase in tension in the early eighties (able archer 83 and all that), before Reagan and Gorbachev started getting along properly and cooled things down a little. Granted, some of the things that went down weren´t really publicised or even known until years later so would´t have had any bearing on peoples level of fear - which i thorougly believe was down to each persons individual assesment of the credibility of NATO deterrence vs. Soviet "jumpiness". I am barely old enough to have been aware of these things just before the fall of the USSR, and the way i remeber it there was a certain level of apprehension but overall a confidence that things -probably wouldn´t escalate too far. Here´s writing from scandinavia where the soviet union did not fail to keep their presence known. And yes the situation at present is concering indeed.

I totally disagree with you. I am 62 and served in the RAF and was stationed at highly strategic early warning sites which involved tracking the Russian aircraft and we felt the threat was very real. Every time the siren sounded on an unannounced alert, we were very nervous and thought this is it. I had many friends that worked at Fylingdales and they felt the same.

@@Gazzab6 but there was no ongoing threats as there is today.

Well, it would seem that way but i think the idea is 1: This is stuff that was mostly available in open sources anyway, and 2: In order to deter you must let the would-be enemy know you have the capability to counter them. This was, as it turns out at least, a very real part of the rationale for what western military organizations chose to make public. Kind of like in the Strangelove movie where the doctor concludes that a doomsday device would be uselsess if it was kept secret.

@@dungracersintl You communist .

Jezz

Why, had it been abandoned?

@@jacvic0790 no it’s in use although it got upgraded 2 golf balls are gone and replaced with a hardened central pyramid like radar structure.

@@dingbat19 oh, so one ball is left, when we went past I saw one of them and was fascinated by the building so I researched it and saw that the balls had been demolished, safe to say I was confused 😂

All three golf balls were removed in the early 90s when the station was upgraded and the current ‘pyramid’ radar was built. They didn’t leave one standing.

@@arbrento73 there is one golf ball looking structure still there actually been there a couple weeks ago

True and it's been upgraded the golf balls are gone

@@justmejie and here we are two months later possibly on the brink of war with Russia. Not sure our EWS would be much use against hypersonic missiles which are designed to evade EWS systems.

@@justmejie noooo

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True. I went there and there was a literal squeeze that I could fit in but it was heavily restricted. Long’s dummy was there.

Even more like 30ft.

@@modelsteamers671 Negative snowflake. A depth finder has already shown a couple hundred feet

@@TENNESSEETRACKHAWK Try reading the more scientifically based geology websites, it believed to be about 30ft deep. Even the guy who used a sonar technique and estimated it to be 65 metres later admitted that was nothing like the reality.

@@modelsteamers671 200ft.

@@astradala1845 About 30ft.

Segueing back and forth between Reginald Dixon and Jethro Tull. Renowned denizens of the very Yorkshire town of Blackpool!

the last family of megalodons on Earth

The water runs deep under the rocks, instead of running straight like a river should it runs sideways.

@@XPLOREYORKSHIRE Got it