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You could buy your own Cold War-era nuclear bunker in UK countryside for £25k – it comes with incredible hidden features
A COLD War bunker in the countryside is being sold for £25,000.
The nuclear retreat is fitted with body bags, gas masks as well as a red telephone box and is accessed via a 14ft shaft.
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It was previously an MOD Royal Observer Post and was built in Legbourne, Lincolsnhire, in 1959.
The small vault was built to accommodate three observers in case of a nuclear attack, supplied with enough food and water for fourteen days and had a landline and radio communication included.
Many Nuclear Bunker sites have been, since then, used as sites for Mobile Telephone masts, so the opportunity to buy this bunker is rare.
There is vehicle access to the site and the current owner enjoys room for a caravan next to the bunker’s entrance in the ground.
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An auction listing reads: "The bunker is secure, dry and in its original condition," reads the listing.
"The current owner also has a caravan on site.
"The site also has vehicular access from the road over the land to access it."
Mark Colledge, 64, purchased the underground vault on eBay in 2003 for £12,500.
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The army veteran told the Daily Mail: "It was built the year I was born and I think I bought it due to a bit of a midlife crisis. I thought "that's cool" and decided I wanted it.
"I keep a caravan close by and have been using it as a kind of holiday home. I sleep in the bunker, and shower in the caravan.
"I am selling because it seems to be a good time given the global crisis, and I haven't been there in years. I'd like some cash to go on holiday.
"I have body bags in there and some gas masks. That goes back to my army training and what to do in an attack. "There's a bed and sleeping bag but that's pretty much it.
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"There's also a red box telephone so in the event of a nuclear attack, that's the only phone that will work - not that there'll be many phones left to call. "It has solar and wind power too."
SDL Property auctions is flogging the vault with a one-bed home on November 24.
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