Want a Zuckerberg-style bunker on a budget? Cold War bunker to go under the hammer for £20,000
The ROC stood down at the end of the Cold War in 1991, and many posts were decommissioned and sold off in the following years. This bunker was known as Post 12 of Group Six in Norwich and has been in private ownership since 1992.
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