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Cold War bunker collapses onto beach

The Tunstall ROC Post has been dangling perilously on a cliff top for the past month due to erosion along the Holderness coastline in East Yorkshire, UK

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28 January 2026

TUNSTALL, ENGLAND - JANUARY 24: In this aerial view people view a decommissioned cold war nuclear observation post has fallen on to the beach after clinging perilously to the cliff face for the last month on January 24, 2026 in Tunstall, England. The decommissioned bunker, known as Tunstall ROC (Royal Observer Corps), is believed to have been built in 1959 as a nuclear monitoring post during the Cold War. Rapid erosion along the East Yorkshire coastline left it exposed and caused it to collapse. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

A cold war-era nuclear bunker has collapsed onto a beach in Tunstall, UK, after dangling on a cliff top for the past month. The Tunstall ROC Post, on the Holderness coastline in East Yorkshire, was decommissioned in 1991. It had been on the edge of collapse due to erosion, and succumbed to the elements on 24 January. The Holderness coastline is one of the fastest[1]eroding coastlines in Europe.

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