Once luxury bunker built to save Royal Family from nuclear attack now covered in graffiti

A once luxury bunker in Scotland was built to save the Royal Family in case of a nuclear invasion has been left to rot.

The now graffiti-covered bunker is open to the public.

This secret bunker was constructed 100 feet underground in the 1950s due to fears of Soviet power and remained a secret until the 1980s.

Top officials and members of the Royal Family would be kept in this bunker in the event of a disastrous war in Britain.

Located in Scotland, just four miles from the capital, it served as a Sector Operations Centre for coordinating RAF fighter jets.

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The bunker wasn’t used after the 1980s because the Cold War didn’t turn into a nuclear war.

But in the 1990s, people set fire to it and took metal from inside to sell.

The Barnton Bunker’s website says: “Our mission is to restore the historic 1940’s RAF and Cold War era Nuclear Bunker into a fully operational visitor attraction, with the intention to open the doors to guided hard-hat tours.”

“The Barnton Bunker Restoration Project has seen the bunker’s ‘shell’ entirely stripped in order to authentically reinstate it to how it once was and turn the bunker into a visitor attraction and meeting and conference facility.”

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