May 04, 2005
Decommissioned bunker
A decommissioned bunker near the village of Twyford (an hour from London) serves as headquarters for a major IT security company. Here is a photo of the exterior.
Teletubbies springs to mind. The day was very overcast (er, just like London!) and I'm not into Photoshopping nice skies into the background... we'll get over it.
Inside it's pretty standard, apart from the nuclear-thick walls, doors and seals that lock the place tightly. There's about 40 days' worth of fuel, and capacity to store food inside as well. Originally, the bunker was built in the late 1980s (completed in 1991) during the Cold War, three months after it was finished the site was decommissioned.
Today, locals are not particularly aware of the presence of the bunker and the company that runs the place keeps its profile quite low by not publicising a physical address for the place.
Wow, I was all set to start a job there with Symantec before there was some confusion with the agency/symantec and it all fell through.. weird to see the pics online on a regular-visiting site (yours!).
Posted by: Matthew at May 18, 2005 10:26 PM
