A Short History Of Furness Vale

This video was presented to the meeting of Furness Vale History Society in December 2021. This is the story  of Furness Vale from the earliest recorded times up to the present day.

Hidden Beneath Eccles Pike !

 

The Royal Observer Corps constructed more than 1500 monitoring posts between 1955 and 1968. They were manned by a crew of four volunteers whose role was to monitor and pinpoint by triangulation, any nuclear explosions during the cold war period. Built to a standard design, they included a toilet/store and a monitoring room. Access was through a hatch and down a 14 foot deep shaft. Half were closed in 1968, the remainder surviving until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The post on Eccles Pike was north of Eccles Road. on a flat area a little to the east of the high point where there is a disturbed depression with some metal sticking out of the ground.

Chinley R O C opened in 1960 and closed in 1968.