Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post, Easington On high ground above the industrial sites of Dawdon, Easington and Seaham this monitoring post would have been in a fine position to observe nuclear destruction of Durham's coastal industry.
<p>Characteristically a line of telegraph poles terminate at the site providing a communication link. It was built in 1962 at the height of the Cold War and closed in 1992.
Several other ruined buildings nearby are associated with a WWII RAF radar station and possibly even earlier acoustic mirror early warning system from WWI like that in Sunderland <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/Public/Editable/Themes/Environment/scheduled-monuments/acousticmirror.asp">http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/Public/Editable/Themes/Environment/scheduled-monuments/acousticmirror.asp</a>.
Details and photographs of this particular Cold War bunker can be found here <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.subbrit.org.uk/cgi-bin/webdata_roc.pl?fid=988093720&amp;query=pagenum%3D1%26cgifunction%3DSearch%26County%3DDurham&amp;cgifunction=form">http://www.subbrit.org.uk/cgi-bin/webdata_roc.pl?fid=988093720&amp;query=pagenum%3D1%26cgifunction%3DSearch%26County%3DDurham&amp;cgifunction=form</a>
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General information on the ROC and these posts is on the same site here <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/index2.shtml">http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/index2.shtml</a>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/32242">Andrew Curtis</a>
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