[IMC-bristol] Please may I post a feature?

[sam rossiter]

I think it's OK to post this in a feature, and I think
Ian also proposed this a few days ago, before you both
kicked off at each other.

For the record I do not think it's appropriate to post
personal e-mail to a public list, or to threaten
violence against other members of the collective. 

cheers Sam

v 
--- Ecovillage Network UK <evnuk at gaia.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> A week ago today I published the following (this
> version slightly updated) 
> feature on Bristol Indymedia. After doubts about
> copyright (later proving 
> unfounded) and the rule (new to me) that no person
> can post an article to 
> the newswire then make it a feature, it was removed.
> 
> The end result of all this is that the middle column
> section I wrote (the 
> newsy lead in) was deleted as were the links I'd
> prepared. Luckily it was 
> still in my cache so I didn't lose that text and
> posted it to the UK site. 
> Here it is again below.
> 
> As I understand it I now have to find a 'seconder'
> to actually place this 
> feature in the middle column. Would anyone who
> approves of this being made 
> a feature now please do that.
> 
> See you all at the Cube on Wednesday evening.
> 
> 
> Tony Gosling
> 0117 944 6219
> 
> "The only thing necessary for evil (I refer to NATO
> not Ian) to triumph is 
> for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
> 
> 
> 
> 
> TAGLINE
> BRISTOL INDYMEDIA EXCLUSIVE
> 
> HEADLINE
> New Computers for NATO bunker
> 
> FEATURE TEXT
> To most of us it's just another chain link fence off
> the road from Bath to 
> Chippenham, but investigative journalist Duncan
> Campbell believes the 
> underground Corsham Computer Centre houses a
> top-secret, top-level NATO 
> command post. Recent reports by anonymous
> contracters working deep 
> underground say U.S. soldiers have just finished
> installing a new 
> state-of-the-art U.S. computer system. And the
> Ministry of Defence press 
> office still have the cheek to deny that there are
> any underground 
> facilities in Corsham. So are the U.S. Department of
> Defence and our MoD 
> hiding from Al Quaeda... or from the public who pay
> their wages? Phil 
> Chamberlain, ex-editor of the Bath Chronicle takes a
> peep down this and 
> some of the other nearby multi-billion pound rabbit
> holes.
> 
> LINKS
> 1. read more....
>
http://bristol.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=9367&group=webcast
> 
> 2. The Burlington Bunker
> http://www.corshamtown.co.uk/burlington.html
> 
> 3. Corsham Computer Centre: Bunker Busters
>
http://www.truthseekers.freeserve.co.uk/truth/tr15bunkers.htm
> 
> ARTICLE TEXT
> Phil Chamberlain, onetime deputy editor of the Bath
> Chronicle, takes a peep 
> down the various military rabbit holes in the Box
> and Corsham area.
> 
> Bunkers under Bath
> by Phil Chamberlain
> 
> For conspiracy theorists it is Britain's own Area
> 51. The American version 
> has become such a fixture on the cult circuit that
> there are burger bars 
> selling alien snacks and motels offering the best
> viewing points to see 
> America's secret aircraft take off and land. But
> Britain's secret base has 
> no such post-modernist trappings, just a few
> dedicated enthusiasts swapping 
> tit bits on the web and a typically humdrum Ministry
> of Defence location.
> 
> The warren of tunnels around Corsham and Box near
> Bath have been home to a 
> number of military bases since before the Second
> World War. Most utilised 
> the quarries which fed the stone that made the city
> famous and was exported 
> across the world. The mine workings link up in some
> cases with the military 
> bases and the whole network spreads for miles with
> entrances dotted around 
> the hills - some quote large and others no more than
> a rabbit hole in the 
> ground.
> 
> Stop off and have a drink at The Quarryman's Arms
> near Box and you will be 
> able to buy a map put together by University of Bath
> cavers which gives a 
> guide to the mine workings. Be warned though that it
> is easy to get lost 
> only yards from a tunnel entrance and much of the
> workings have not been 
> rendered safe.
> 
> For the military, the tunnel's position was far
> enough away from London not 
> to attract attention yet still only a few hours from
> the capital and with 
> good rail links and the Bristol port all within easy
> reach. Indeed the rail 
> links remain with rumours of secret sidings on the
> mainline route as it 
> passes through various tunnels connecting military
> gauges with the public 
> network.
> 
> The tunnels were home to a number of stores, mostly
> ammunition, during the 
> last war. Local author Nick McCamley has charted the
> development of these 
> underground works in his book Secret Underground
> Cities. And cities is an 
> apt word.
> 
> The sites beneath the hills included an underground
> aircraft engine 
> factory, operated by the Bristol Aeroplane Company.
> It was home to 18,000 
> workers, covered three million square feet between
> Corsham and Box and 
> contained around 60 miles of subterranean tracks.
> 
> Another, the Central Ammunition Dump at Corsham was
> the biggest of its kind 
> in the country. One of the three parts of the CAD
> was actually nearer 
> Bradford on Avon, and based at Monkton Farleigh
> Quarry. The biggest 
> ammunition store in the world at the time, it
> covered 45 acres of 
> underground space and had a maximum capacity of
> 120,000 tons of ammunition.
> 
> Also making up the CAD was Tunnel Quarry, a 40 acre
> air-conditioned 
> ammunition store on the north side of the Box
> tunnel, while the third 
> quarry, Eastlays, occupied 30 acres near Gastard,
> south-east of Corsham. 
> The security of the sites can be gauged by the fact
> that many important 
> works of art were shipped there for safe-keeping
> during the war.
> 
> Go for a drink at the Cross Guns at Avoncliffe and
> look at the hill above. 
> During the war, inside that hill, sat the Crown
> Jewels, the Elgin Marbles 
> and various other treasures from London museums.
> 
> The military works provided employment for thousands
> of local people 
> before, during and after the war. Little was
> officially known about them 
> because, in that typically reserved British way, the
> sites were secret.
> Local gossip certainly gave clues to the scale of
> the operations and many 
> people have their own urban myths about the tunnels.
> One is that all the 
> cellars under Bath's central Milsom Street link up
> and a direct route - 
> past the former Admiralty headquarters in the city -
> went straight to Box.
> 
> But apart from tall tales told in pubs the sites
> remained secure - a few 
> air vents and vehicle entrances the only outward
> sign of their existence. 
> There was a price to be paid for some of those
> workers who toiled 
> underground. Asbestos was used to line the walls of
> the 
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