The eastern storage building
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The eastern storage building by Evelyn Simak as part of the Geograph project.
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The eastern storage building
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 15 Apr 2015
One of originally three huge buildings > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4431720 protected by earth traverses and blast berms where the non-nuclear parts of the bombs were stored. Each building was manned by only four men; the interior was a vast opening space with no partitioning walls and the exterior walls were not joined conventionally so that, in the event of an explosion, they would blow out and release the blast which was deflected by the surrounding earth traverses. The concrete pillars in front of the entrance > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4431737 supported a heavy-duty gantry crane used for unloading of bombs. The adjoining ancillary buildings housed environmental controls and stand-by generators.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.385357
Longitude
0.719756