SECRET COLD WAR HISTORY REVEALED

BUNKER NEAR GOLF COURSE HAD VERY DIFFERENT PURPOSE AS WORLD FEARED NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST

- LEE GRIMSDITCH

FOR anyone born in the last 30 years, it's difficult to understand the fears of nuclear war that existed, even into the 1980s, following the end of World War II.

The USSR and the West faced off across Europe, as the Soviet Union consumed countries such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

In the early 1960s, the building of the Berlin Wall was a graphic symbol of the harsh division between East and West caused by the Soviets' oppressive Communist ideology.

Among relics from this era are the abandoned subterranean bunkers scattered throughout the British countryside that most people will never notice or get to see inside.

During the Cold War, the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) had monitoring posts all over the UK, including Greater Manchester.