Bedworth Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Post
Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Post at Bedworth. Monitoring posts were to be used for reporting nuclear bursts and monitoring fall-out in the modern period. The post lies on the West Side of the Coventry Road
1 The primary role of the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was the recognition and identification of hostile aircraft. With the start of the cold war and the increasing threat of nuclear attack in the 1950’s, the ROC was given the added responsibility of reporting nuclear bursts and monitoring fall-out which necessitated the construction of 1563 underground monitoring posts throughout Great Britain & Northern Ireland.
The post is situated on the west side of Coventy Road (B4109). It was oped in the 1960s, the post closed in September 1991 and was subsequently demolished.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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