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This history can be found in the bushes overgrown near a roundabout in Cardiff

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The overgrown Cold War bunker hidden in the outskirts of Cardiff is under auction.

The bunker represents the history of the capital, but not many people know it is there.

The building is a former civil defense control center bunker owned by the Cardiff County Council.

It can be found hidden among the properties of popular areas.

The building was built in 1956 to coordinate local operations in emergency situations.

The civil defense team stationed there was disbanded in 1968.

Graham Tatnell and

He said that around 2012 when he was a member of the Legion in this building, if the Third World War came true, it might be the nerve center of the Cold War.

The former Rhhiwbina hospital technician said: "I know this should be used for nuclear war.

"But if the bomb is blown down, no one will provide any help, but we have carried out flood relief, Aberfan and other disasters.

"When we were over, the chairman closed the door and left, so all our things were left there, including photos.

"It's a shame that this place has deteriorated, and it is clearly destroyed."

From the year the Legion left in 1968, the building was operated and cared for by volunteers until 1984, and then used as a county-level backup control room and used for storage until the last closing in 1991.

Since then, it has been dormant.

According to reports, in 2013, the local Randuff Association group was considering converting the building on Vaughan Street into a Cold War Museum.

However, it is said that the level of damage caused by the saboteurs and elements is unfulfillable for this proposal.

The author, Nick Catford, visited the bunker before the building collapsed.

Nick took a photo in 2003.

He described his visit on the website subbrit.org.uk. He said: “There is a storage room with Dexion shelves, which is still full of equipment, most of which date back to World War II.

"There are a large number of tin helmets, stretchers, gas masks, trash cans, buckets, stacked tables and a large number of small wooden blocks (the purpose is unknown).

Nick continued: "Although the room next door was originally a dormitory, there are still bunk beds along both walls, but the room next door is also a shop.

"There are more furniture here, as well as ventilators and wheelbarrows.

"Since its construction, the internal bunker has hardly changed. When you walk through the gate, it feels like a bunker from the 1950s."

Some of the documents that Nick Catford saw that day, plus the items that were removed when the building closed, were apparently handed over to the Glamorgan Archives in Leckwith, Cardiff.

The bunker will now be auctioned with Seel & Co at a guide price of £40,000.

The control center bunker is sold through an online auction with a guide price of £40,000.

The tender will start at 9:00 am on Tuesday, February, and the auction will be closed sequentially from 5 pm, all through Seel and Co 

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You should visit the website before the auction for more detailed information, or call the auction team on 029 2037 0117.