BBC 2 Tuesday - Horizon, Total Isolation
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:02:49 -0800 (PST)
Tomorrow's Horizon follows a group of people who are deprived of
various senses over a 48-hour period. This is apparently filmed in a
nuclear bunker. . The interior looks quite modern and a from brief
glimpse of the outside on the website,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/isolation/h ...
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Cold War BT WB1400 Signalling Receiver Mount For Sale On Ebay
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:43:16 -0000
I have placed a Cold War BT WB1400 Signalling Receiver mount for sale on
Ebay:-
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200193156281&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=010
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ITV London Now
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:36:52 -0800 (PST)
Coming up in a bit on Sugg's Survivors. Piece about the subway under
the road connected with Crystal Palace.
Neill ...
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Help!
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:08:14 GMT
Just caught the end of the Beatles film "Help!" last night, with the Fab
Four climbing around an Ace High Troposcatter installation somewhere very
sunny. I'm not sure where it was filmed - anyone out there know?
steveb
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Cold War BT UKWMO Equipment Modernisation Video For Sale On Ebay
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:31:02 -0000
I have placed a Cold War BT UKWMO equipment modernisation video for sale on
Ebay:-
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200192485445&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=010
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1983 - The Brink of Apocalypse
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:08:43 -0800 (PST)
I've just got round to watching this programme, which I taped a week
or so ago. If you didn't see it, its was about the events of 1983,
such as the shooting down of the Korean airliner by the Soviets that
nearly led to a nuclear war at the time of the Able Archer Exercise.
It was a bit hammed up in places, the Sov ...
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Breakthrough!
Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:50:41 -0000
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7171802.stm
Impressive bit of engineering.
JB
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Underground 'object' in Birmingham in mid 90s
Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:20:04 -0800 (PST)
Wondering if anyone can shed some light on the following?
I remember being told by a friend in the mid 90s that some local
authority in the Birmingham area (maybe Birmingham Council) had
started the renovation of some area of waste/derelict ground, near to
Birmingham, possibly near the airport. At some point, wh ...
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OT - UK nuclear bombs safeguarded by bicycle locks
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:04:40 +0000
In the BBC News Magazine section there is the annual "100 things we
didn't know this time last year"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/index.html#a021616
No 62 states
62. Until the late 1990s, the RAF's nuclear bombs could be activated
using a bicycle lock key.
This links to
http://news.bbc.c ...
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Subrit site query
Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:43:56 -0800 (PST)
You know every so often you surf the web and you see a picture thats
sets your spidey sense tingling
Imagine my surprise tonight whilst "working" I came across this
picture
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/b/boulmer/index156.html
The description didnt sound familier
"Site Name: RAF Boulmer ('EZS') GCI ...
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