A man is selling the ‘nuclear’ bunker on his farm (Image: Brown & Co)
A Norfolk man is selling the “nuclear” bunker on his farm amid increasing tensions with .
Fred Sharman, 64, is a fourth generation farmer on 380 acres of arable and livestock farmland near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
He told the Express that the bunker was put in during the 1950s by the Royal Observer Corps (ROC), a civil defense organisation that tracked aircraft movements and reported information to the RAF.
The ROC would teach cadets to do this at the bunker, which Farmer Fred remembers seeing as a boy.
He said: “We’re only three miles from the coast, so if the Germans, or later the Russians, invaded they might do it here.
“There’s lots like this on the East Anglian coast.”
The bunker is described as for three people during ‘nuclear attack’ (Image: Brown & Co)
Years later, the ROC would sell it to Fred’s father when it fell out of use. It has been described as “rare opportunity to purchase a piece of British post-war history” built for “three observers in the event of a nuclear attack”.
Two months ago, Fred was watching telly when he saw a news story about someone selling a bunker on their land. He added: “I thought ‘I’ve got one of those’. And that one made a decent amount of money – £30,000.”
The farmer says there’s been “lots of interest on social media” after he put it up for auction, with people saying they want to live there or use it as an art studio. Fred would recommend it to stargazers as the area has wide open skies and views for miles.
Fred said: “If I can cash it in I might as well. Even if nuclear war comes, I want to be under the bomb rather than under the ground. I don’t want to be the last one.”
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Fred Sharman’s bunker near Great Yarmouth is up for auction on December 3 with a guide price of between £10,000 and £20,000 by Brown & Co.
This comes after a Cold War era ex-Royal Observer Corps nuclear bunker in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, sold for £29,000 at an auction on Thursday (November 21).
Former owner, Jon Graves, restored the 15-deep fallout shelter – which was manned from 1964 to 1991 – after purchasing it three years ago. He begrudgingly decided to put the military-grade hide-out under the hammer, which was snapped up by an unknown proxy bidder.