Skelmorlie Secret Bunker
North Ayrshire
North Ayrshire
![Skelmorlie Secret Bunker, Royal Observer Corps, North Ayrshire](aerial/skelmorlie_bunker_a.jpg)
These are aerial photos of an underground bunker. (??)
More correctly this is a museum set up to display the vital work done by the Royal Observer Corps during the cold war.
More correctly this is a museum set up to display the vital work done by the Royal Observer Corps during the cold war.
![Skelmorlie Secret Bunker, Royal Observer Corps, North Ayrshire](aerial/skelmorlie_bunker_b.jpg)
These bunkers were built all over the country and very few are now left.
Even fewer are intact and accessible.
![Skelmorlie Secret Bunker, Royal Observer Corps, North Ayrshire](aerial/skelmorlie_bunker_c.jpg)
The official designation is No 23 Post, Skelmorlie and this one was built in
1965 and used until the Corps were finally stood down in 1991.
![Skelmorlie Secret Bunker, Royal Observer Corps, North Ayrshire](aerial/skelmorlie_bunker_d.jpg)
The bunker's website has details of contact and access and the bunker can
be visited by the public, by appointment.
![Skelmorlie Secret Bunker, Royal Observer Corps, North Ayrshire](aerial/skelmorlie_bunker_e.jpg)
Finally a ground level photograph looking from the road outside the site.