导读:一处二战时英国地下核战庇护所的内部场景近期曝光。此处避难所深处地下30米,拥有3米厚的加固混凝土墙壁和金属防爆门。如果战争期间发生核攻击,英国女王和皇室将会飞到这里来避难。
Take a look inside the Cold War bunker where The Queen and her family would have fled had there ever been a nuclear attack on Britain.
来看一看冷战时期英国的庇护所。如果英国发生核攻击,女王和她的皇室成员将会飞到这里避难。
The overgrown, graffiti-clad area gives no indication of what lies beneath, but these pictures have revealed the bunker, built in 1952, at Barnton Quarry, near the Windsor family residence of Holyroodhouse as well as the Scottish capital, Edinburgh.
这个杂草丛生、满是涂鸦的地方没有迹象能看出下面是什么。但是,这些照片曝光了地堡。它建于1952年,位于巴恩顿采石场,距离温莎家族的官邸圣路德宫和苏格尔首府爱丁堡很近。
Pictures give a glimpse into the run-down remains of one of the UK’s Regional Seats of Government, which would have acted as a base for operations in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack.
照片展示了其中一个破败的英国政府地方议席遗址。如果苏联发动核攻击,这里将作为指挥基地。
The structure, 100ft beneath the surface, had 10ft thick reinforced concrete walls and metal blast doors.
这个建筑物距离地面100英尺,加固混凝土墙壁和防爆金属门厚10英尺。
The shots were snapped by Manchester artist, photographer and film maker Andrew Brooks, 39, as part of his Secret Cities project.
这些照片由曼彻斯特39岁的艺术家、摄影师和制片人安德鲁布鲁克斯拍摄,将作为他秘密城市项目的一部分。
He said: ’We got deeper into the bunker system and eventually found our way down a tunnel and the three levels to an old maintenance room.
他说:“我们在地堡系统中走到了很深的地方,终于找到了一条路,沿着一条地道和三级台阶到达了维修室。”
I found the experience of exploring the bunkers very intense. It has to be one of the creepiest places I’ve visited.
“我发觉在探索地堡的经历中极具紧张感。这是我到过的最深的地方之一。”
There was a real apocalyptic feel to the space which I think you can see in the pictures. The whole bunker had been set on fire a few years before our visit, so every wall was black with soot and every surface marked and damaged.’
“我想你在看照片时会感到这个地方有一种世界末日的感觉。在我们参观之前,整个地堡几年前经历了一场火灾。所以每面墙都被烟熏黑了,地上到处是火灾的印记和被破坏的东西。”
The bunker at Barnton Quarry was used as an RAF fighter command operations room during World War Two before advances in technology made radar stations redundant.
二战时期,在雷达技术取得进展以前,这个位于巴恩顿采石场的地堡曾作为英国皇家空军的指挥所。
Although it was classed as a secret government building, its existence was made public on Good Friday in 1963 when a group known as Spies for Peace revealed details of it and thirteen other regional seats of government in the UK.
虽然这里被划为政府保密建筑,但是反战组织Spies for Peace于1963年的耶稣受难日将此地曝光于众。它的每个细节都被公开,同时被曝光的还有其他13处英国政府地方议席遗址。
Andrew said he had held back from sharing his pictures as he felt the place was unsafe and did not want to draw attention to it.
安德鲁说他一直没有公开分享这些照片,因为他觉得这里并不安全,不想引起对这里的关注。
That changed after he found out an organisation is working on restoring the bunker.
后来,安德鲁发现有一个组织正在着手重建这个地堡,这件事改变了他原来的想法。
But anyone over 18 can volunteer to help them with their work and they will then get a full tour of the bunker.
“18岁以上的任何人都可以志愿加入,帮助他们的工作。之后他们会带你完整地游览这里。”