A NUCLEAR bunker precariously perched on the edge of a cliff is just a few days away from falling into the sea.
When the brick building in Tunstall on the East Yorkshire coast was built it sat one hundred yards from the water.
Now the waves crash against the side of the underground building, thought to be about 70 years old, at high tide.
Amateur historian Davey Robinson, is filming the bunker’s final days to document the coastal erosion eating away at the cliff face.
He visits the site on the coastline every day and expects it to collapse into the sea at any moment.
The bunker was built entirely underground with just a small concrete block visible above the grass.
But as the sea has eroded the cliff around the bunker more and more of the red bricks making up the structure have been revealed.
So much ground has been eaten away by the waves that the entire coast-facing side of the structure has been revealed.
The building now sits precariously at the top of a steep slope with the sea just metres away.
Waves come crashing in every day, steadily eating away at more and more of the ground supporting the building.
The bunker is one of several nuclear monitoring stations built along the UK’s coastline.
Known as the Tunstall ROC (Royal Observer Corps) Post the site is now facing destruction through coastal erosion.
It is believed to have been built in 1959 and decommissioned in the early 1990s.
According to Davey the building contained sleeping and “very basic” living facilities.
He said: “We live on one of the most eroded coastlines in Europe and this bunker hasn’t got long left, perhaps just a few days.
“It was designed so that people could live inside it and just wait for a nuclear explosion to register and they could tell other people in other bunkers around the country.”
Davey plans to continue visiting the site every day, predicting that it will collapse into the sea any day.
He said: “This whole area is eroding at a rapid rate and to see an actual physical thing moving it just shows what’s happening really.”
According to the Environment Agency East Yorkshire has some of the fastest eroding coastline in the UK.
Around 3 miles (5km) of land is thought to have been lost since Roman times, including 23 villages.
