A 70-year-old nuclear bunker on the East Yorkshire coast in the UK is dangerously close to falling into the sea as a result of coastal erosion.
The structure, known as the Tunstall ROC (Royal Observer Corps) post, was built in 1959 and originally stood well inland from the shore.
Over decades of shoreline retreat on one of Europe’s fastest-eroding coasts, the bunker has become increasingly exposed, now perched just metres from the cliff edge with waves crashing at its base during high tide.
“Perhaps a few days” until bunker’s collapse
Per the BBC, amateur historian Davey Robinson, who has been publishing daily recordings of the bunker’s status on YouTube, said the bunker “hasn’t got long left, perhaps just a few days,” as the land beneath it continues to crumble.
Robinson and his partner, Tracy Charlton, have been using two drones, named Timothy and King Arthur, to capture how quickly the coastline is being worn away. Their latest upload, on January 19, 2026, confirms that, at least for now, the structure remains intact.
“We live on one of the most eroded coastlines in Europe and this bunker hasn’t got long left, perhaps just a few days,” Robinson told the BBC.
Originally designed as part of a national network of monitoring stations to detect nuclear blasts and radioactive fallout, the bunker was decommissioned in the early 1990s and never used operationally.
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