RAF Bolt Head aka Hope Cove with IKS Exploration 4k

Many thanks to Toby for arranging this and driving us down there. Thanks also to Chris for letting us in.
RAF Bolt Head, or Hope Cove was a World War II airfield and later the site of an R6 ROTOR bunker nea... Read more at www.higgypop.c...
(text borrowed from Nettleden.com)
The site was as an airfield and support site for RAF Exeter from 1941 to 1945. In 1952 an R6 Regional Government HQ control bunker was constructed on the site as part of the British Government's ROTOR project.
The bunker, codenamed Gull Perch, was part of the Air Ministry's project which provided complete radar cover for the UK, it was one of the UK's largest defence project costing roughly £240 million. The high cost was due to the fact that at each ROTOR site meant that huge underground bunkers needed to be constructed as well as many reinforced surface buildings and the bunker at Hope Cove was no exception.
The semi-underground bunker is spread over roughly 3000 square meters over two floors, each floor has approximately 28 rooms, some of which have been extended with a mezzanine floor.
Hope Cove was one of five stations equipped with a type R6 bunker, along with Langtoft, St. Twynells, Treleaver and Hack Green.
In the late 1950s the site was turned in to a Regional Seat of Government by the Home Office and later became a Sub-Regional Control, Sub-Regional Headquarters and finally a Regional Government Headquarters before it was decommissioned in 1994.
For a time it was believed that the bunker was given an overhaul in the 1970s bringing it up to the standards of Hack Green, but apart from a few updates to wiring and communications, the bunker has remained pretty much unchanged since its time as a ROTOR station.
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[@DE-eVOLVED]

Fantastic video !! So clean !! and I love the condition of the machinery - well done to all involved 👍👍 This has been great to watch - Thankyou !!

[@ic3358]

Love the music you use in your videos

[@kennethbarker852]

great video to watch thanks

[@gavinmcvey8177]

Awesome video😎😎🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧a shame nobody stays there to look after everything in there I would move in straight away 😎😎

[@julianp2868]

its great looking at this stuff, a time gone by

[@MrZyptuous]

Matt, Many thanks for showing us this. I keep finding myself just saying WOW! Greetings from Nashville, TN, USA

[@dogmannz]

25:15 This room was negative pressure. The doors and in particular the direction the doors close in (into the room) plus the placement of the seals around them on the room side, are so the negative pressure in the room pulls them against the seals. Also, the fan he is standing under while talking is centrifugal, it sucks air at its center (which is open to the room) and forces it outward along the duct.

[@jayc2469]

The gratitude from Chris for you, Matt, helping to improve the image of Chilmark(?) was very much *Noticed!*

[@paulvamos7319]

Very good and informative video. It could be used today if it were upgraded a little. Thank you for taking me exploring.

[@jackdaw6873]

Wow great video Matt many Thanks all the best Jack.

[@jayc2469]

Wow! Compulsive viewing, yet again!! Hopefully, book sales should have been helped by this. It's on my shopping list for sure! I managed to get permission to visit a one of the Cluster Bunkers in Carmarthen, that is now being used as a repeater station for a mobile network

[@MrSebmeister]

Cool video! Must try and get there one day. Hope Cove would've been my grandfather's reserve posting in the event of hostilities occuring with the Soviets. He was a fighter plotter/assistant radar operator with the RAF during his national service. I actually have his reserve mobilisation notice, including S.R. train ticket to Kingsbridge, and 10s pay advance! He also served deep underground at RAF Box.

[@ohforfxcksake]

So glad this one is getting looked after. Amazing place , thanks for posting. So much has been lost in the past

[@josephgeis6641]

Thanks IKS what a great video.

[@colintook3357]

What a great place and great host, what a nice chap! Wish I had £400,000 to cover the current asking price 😲🧐

[@S-Ltd1000]

Interesting stuff. I've been to Hack green before but had no idea there was an almost identical building on my doorstep.

[@kevballard1967]

I inherited my old dads house, and I am still using his old cooker. It's the same one in that kitchen lol. But it looks in better condition than mine. I wonder how old that one is. Great visit chaps. Get a 4k 360 cam.

[@TheSecretVault]

ive got one; jus t need to find a style to us it in.

[@SamytyKill]

Had a beer too much before watching, and was 100% sure the beginning was a video game.

[@paulchadwick3399]

It looks very much like Hack Green. Nice visit.

[@88HEATHENWOLF]

same kind of bunker, all of the ROTOR bunkers were built to stock Specs so this and HG are both R6 Semi sunken Bunkers built to the exact same specs, it's just part of hack green is still unopened to the public as they're using it as a server farm, also the way you come into HG is backwards, the ramp at the front was built by the owners and the real door is now the back door, hence you go through the NAAFI As you first walk in instead of Decontamination which is located nest to the Original Entrance by the stairs.

[@ROBDD11]

RAF camps where named in the parish they where in - hence sometimes away from village etc with same name.

[@exploringww2southwales972]

great video...

[@tresben6758]

You get to explore some amazing sites Matt I'm well jealous 👍

[@chrisstacey1984]

jesus folks awesome video

[@TheSecretVault]

cheers im waiting for your epic with the bits no one else dare go lol

[@IKS-Exploration]

@@TheSecretVault not got a time yet lol next year maybe lol

[@arw2008]

having been to RAF Holmpton, Hack Green and Kelvedon hatch Bunkers I recognise a lot of this bunker your in here.

[@arw2008]

oh and drakelow tunnels

[@eliotmansfield]

i must be equally sad because i’ve visited all those and drakelow

[@buffplums]

Similar layout to the R3 Bunkers I once worked in during my time in the RAF

[@dogmannz]

1:04.00 The batteries would run the emergency lighting, not the main florescent lights. The back up lighting is the incandescent bulbs on the walls around the building. If the generators run automatically then they should also switch the building on to them automatically. I doubt this would have been done manually. But that's not to say that level of automation was installed in the 40's when this place was built.

[@michaelthomas3105]

Hi dogmanzz. I was in the bunker before they sold it and the generator packed in on us. The bunker was in total darkness, apart perhaps from the odd dim light, so I used my 100 watt Dragon searchlight to show some people around until maintenance man Gerry got a generator online again. Took him about 15 minutes or so. One of the people with me was Peter Laurie, who wrote about this bunker in his very good book: "Beneath the City Streets. He kept the name & location a secret. His son Adam already owned the RAF Aish Rotor bunker. There are 2 generators, but the mains electricity was not connected at the time so as to save money. Cheers.

[@brandonsteinbach4208]

I'd actually like to convert a small bunker into a house to live in. I know here in the states people buy old missile silos and convert them into underground apartments.

[@MegaBoilermaker]

Lister diesel pump and the lever is a decompressor.

[@eliotmansfield]

1:27 air to air intercooler

[@MegaBoilermaker]

The "Winch" is a Hoist.

[@buddylight2191]

Did Churchill stay in that bunker?

[@AtheistOrphan]

BUDDY LIGHT - No, never. Built long after he retired.

[@lallenh1]

Where is IKS. Show of Ian and Chris.

[@TheSecretVault]

search for iks exploration.

[@craigybdoespranks2535]

I am from swindon lol

[@Mikes666]

Up for sale £430,000

[@MegaBoilermaker]

"Ladies with pushing rods" = plotters.

[@Deebz270]

Such a waste. With so many people needing decent housing (including myself...). And here this fantastic space, dry, clean and EMPTY! The criminality of the MoD has no bounds.

[@MrMUFO666]

Disaster is on the cards mat.. In one day ive watched you lot dicing with your lives at sea and on a live railway at night....

[@josephgeis6641]

Map of the USA was stolen any bets. ?