ExwatnallblokeGerry

I have to do a quick correction to my earlier posting - the TV programme about the RAF bunker at Watnall has been put back one week, to Wednesday February 12, 8.00pm on Channel Four. Sorry about that - they've just told me!

Hi, Bilbraborn - I wonder if you were one of the youngsters in there when I paid a visit, many years ago. I took a friend to see the place, and I'd gone on a bit about how it was all top secret. We stood outside the big steel doors, that were very solidly welded shut, and we suddenly heard kids' voices from inside! Someone said they had got in through the air-conditioning system. Was that you?! When I did eventually get inside, some time later, I was disappointed to see how it had been knocked around (I'm not blaming you!). A lot of the stuff had been pinched, probably for scrap value. I'd h

This is my first attempt at writing anything on this site, so I may well be doing it wrong! I found the site a couple of nights ago and spotted a few references to the old underground RAF bunker at Watnall. Great - 'cos I was a National Serviceman there (what was called a 'fighter plotter') in 1952 and '53. I'd never heard of Watnall before I was sent there, but it's remained a part of my life ever since . . . because I married a girl from Kimberley! The bunker is now being turned into a guest house. Thousands of tons of soil have been removed and much of the old subterrannean building is