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Inverness, Mackintosh Road, Emergency Planning Underground Bunker
Operations Block (20th Century)
Site Name Inverness, Mackintosh Road, Emergency Planning Underground Bunker
Classification Operations Block (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Fighter Command Hq; Raf Filter Block; Raigmore Hospital; The Bunker; Raigmore House Policies; Broomtown
Canmore ID 200395
Site Number NH64NE 642
NGR NH 68253 45590
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/200395
- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH64NE 642 68253 45590
Incorporates information from cancelled site NH64NE 618.
The Area Control Centre for the Inverness area during 1946-47 was located within the grounds of and in Raigmore House. Before 1946-7, this may have been the Fighter Control centre (possibly 13 Group). Raigmore House has now been demolished and the area it occupied has now been built over by a housing development. On the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, sheet 12, 1879), this house is annotated as Broomtown, but by the 2nd edition of 1904 it is named Raigmore. The OS Name Book states that Broomtown is 'a large three storey modern built mansion with commodious offices attached- situated within extensive grounds it is occupied by and the property of E Mackintosh esq of Raigmore' (Name Book 1879)
Information from RCAHMS (DE); and contained in a letter to RCAHMS from Mr A Bain, April 1999.
The bunker for the Fighter Command HQ during World War II is now used as an HQ for the Emergency Services.
J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/10, Vol.2, 63.
