'Paddock' Alternative Cabinet War Room
Paddock was designed as a alternative cabinet war room in the Dollis Hill area of London. It takes the form of a large underground bunker on two levels with a number of rooms. Due mainly to the damp conditions and distance from the the centre of London, it was only for two meetings, Churchill himself being present at one of them. After the war the Post Office occupied the surface buildings and utilized the bunker, but it has remained abandoned since the 1970s. Today, the bunker is owned by the company who purchased the land above for housing, who open it twice a year.
(Quoted Verbatim from HERE)
The interesting floor signs are a remnants from its days as a post-office research centre. The area had numerous buildings on site, and the floors were named site wide, so while one building would have floors 7-10, another building would have floors 11 & 12. The bunker has floors 26 & 27.
The bunker had one major design flaw; there were no toilets built into the complex, and in the event of an uninhabitable surface, the only toilet facilities, including those for Churchill himself would have consisted of a fire bucket.
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| GOV_PAD001 | GOV_PAD002 |
| FSBs | Unknown Room |
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| GOV_PAD003 | GOV_PAD004 |
| Lower Spinal Corridor | Lower Spinal Corridor |
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| GOV_PAD005 | GOV_PAD006 |
| Closed Room | Map Room |
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| GOV_PAD007 | GOV_PAD008 |
| No Files Here... | Upper Spinal Corridor |
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| GOV_PAD009 | GOV_PAD010 |
| Unknown Room | Lower Spinal Corridor |
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| GOV_PAD011 | GOV_PAD012 |
| Battery Room | Window Hatch |
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| GOV_PAD013 | GOV_PAD014 |
| Window Hatch | MDF |
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| GOV_PAD015 | GOV_PAD016 |
| MDF | Dist. Boxes on MDF |
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| GOV_PAD017 | GOV_PAD018 |
| Incoming Connection Room | Abandoned Files |
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| GOV_PAD019 | GOV_PAD020 |
| Room Junction | Pump |
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| GOV_PAD021 | GOV_PAD022 |
| Backfilled Emergency Escape | Collapsed Ducting |
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| GOV_PAD023 | GOV_PAD024 |
| Upper Spinal Corridor | Unknown room |
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| GOV_PAD025 | GOV_PAD026 |
| Collapsed Ducting | Main Stairwell |
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| GOV_PAD027 | GOV_PAD028 |
| Faraday Cage | Faraday Cage Door |
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| GOV_PAD029 | GOV_PAD030 |
| Faraday Cage | Unknown Room |
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| Corridor | FSBs |
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| GOV_PAD033 | GOV_PAD034 |
| Main Stairwell | Message Hatch |
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| Mouldy Switches | Hazardous Rooms |
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| GOV_PAD037 | GOV_PAD038 |
| Emergency Escape | Map Room |
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| GOV_PAD039 | GOV_PAD040 |
| Mouldy Rooms | Tele-printers Room |
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| GOV_PAD041 | GOV_PAD042 |
| Store Room | Hazardous Room |
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| GOV_PAD043 | GOV_PAD044 |
| Map Room | Window into Map Room |
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| GOV_PAD045 | GOV_PAD046 |
| Studio | Generator |
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| GOV_PAD047 | GOV_PAD048 |
| Emergency Escape | Catering Facilities |
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| GOV_PAD049 | GOV_PAD050 |
| Lower Spinal Corridor | Unknown Room |
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| GOV_PAD051 | GOV_PAD052 |
| Unknown Room | Air Con Plant |
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| GOV_PAD053 | GOV_PAD054 |
| Air Con Plant | Air Con Plant |
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| GOV_PAD055 | GOV_PAD056 |
| Air Con Plant | Air Con Plant |
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| GOV_PAD057 | GOV_PAD058 |
| FSBs | Air Cleaning Units |
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| GOV_PAD059 | GOV_PAD060 |
| Blast Door Frame | FSBs |
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| GOV_PAD061 | GOV_PAD062 |
| Kitchen Area | Stalactites |
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| GOV_PAD063 | GOV_PAD064 |
| Stalactites | Unusual Floor Numbering |
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| GOV_PAD065 | GOV_PAD066 |
| Room In AIR LOCK | Entrance Stairwell |
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| GOV_PAD067 | GOV_PAD068 |
| Floor Sign | Lead Paint in disrepair |
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| GOV_PAD069 | GOV_PAD070 |
| FSB | Stalactites |
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| GOV_PAD071 | GOV_PAD072 |
| Empty Filing | Empty Filing |
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| GOV_PAD073 | GOV_PAD074 |
| Storage | Generator Control |
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| GOV_PAD075 | GOV_PAD076 |
| Air Con Plant | Mould |
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| GOV_PAD077 | GOV_PAD078 |
| Inter Floor Stairs | Wet Light |
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| GOV_PAD079 | GOV_PAD080 |
| Mysterious Platform | Blast Door Bolt Hole |
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| GOV_PAD081 | GOV_PAD082 |
| Cable Inputs | Destroyed Door |
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| GOV_PAD083 | GOV_PAD084 |
| Blast Door Frame | Faraday Cage |
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| GOV_PAD085 | GOV_PAD086 |
| Collapsed Trunking | Upper Spinal Corridor |
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| GOV_PAD087 | GOV_PAD088 |
| Peeling Paint | Floor Sign |
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| GOV_PAD089 | GOV_PAD090 |
| Empty Blast Door | Emergency Escape |
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| GOV_PAD091 | GOV_PAD092 |
| FSBs | FSBs |
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| GOV_PAD093 | GOV_PAD094 |
| FSBs | Emergency Escape Door |
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| GOV_PAD095 | GOV_PAD096 |
| Hidden Entrance | Air Cleaning Units (x2) |
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| GOV_PAD097 | GOV_PAD098 |
| Air Con | Emergency Escape |
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| GOV_PAD099 | GOV_PAD100 |
| Generator | Control Box |
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| GOV_PAD101 | GOV_PAD102 |
| Control Box | Collapsed Ceiling |
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| GOV_PAD103 | GOV_PAD104 |
| Collapsed Ceiling | Stalagmites |
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| GOV_PAD105 | GOV_PAD106 |
| Message Hatch | Collapsed Wall |
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| GOV_PAD107 | GOV_PAD108 |
| Tele-printers Room | Filing Cabinet |
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| GOV_PAD109 | GOV_PAD110 |
| Stairway | Void |
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| GOV_PAD111 | GOV_PAD112 |
| Upper Level Floor | MDF |
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