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Description: | This Radiac Survey Meter was used to measure radiation in the
event of a nuclear attack. It comes from the North East London
Group War Room, Northumberland Avenue, Wanstead. The building
was demolished in 2000 and the site is now occupied by a nursing
home.
During WW2, Greater London was divided into five
sectors, three north and two south of the Thames. With the
re-emergence of civil defence in the early 1950s, four of the
sectors were provided with war rooms originally known as
'sub-regional commissioner's offices'. These identical rooms
were located at Wanstead, Mill Hill, Chislehurst and Cheam.
Above these was the Regional Seat of Government, which was
based in a re-used radar station at Kelvedon Hatch, Essex. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Redbridge Museum | Rights holder: | Redbridge Museum | Subjects: | Cityscape London at War | Temporal: | 1960 - 1970 | Source: | Redbridge Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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