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Get you up to speed: Inside eerie nuclear bunker under Amsterdam which you could own for £245,000 | News World
A nuclear bunker converted from a sewage pumping station is for sale in the Baarsjes neighbourhood of Amsterdam for £245,000. The structure, designed to accommodate up to 80 people, features three levels and has undergone renovations to improve its condition.
The bunker, located on Postjeskade in Amsterdam, is currently listed for £245,000 and features a 55sqm layout including an airlock and 30cm thick concrete walls. Property Noord has reported that, despite its zoning classification for traffic purposes, there have been 20 inquiries from potential buyers, and discussions with municipal officials about possible residential use are ongoing.
Hero Panman, co-owner of Property Noord, confirmed that municipal officials are open to discussions about zoning, which may allow for residential use of the bunker, despite its current designation for ‘traffic’ purposes. Twenty interested parties have already approached the estate agent, indicating market interest as improvements have increased the property’s appeal since its last sale.
What remains unclear — Prospective buyers are uncertain about the legal uses permitted for the property due to its zoning classification.
Nuclear bunker in Amsterdam listed for £245,000 after renovation efforts
The entrance to the nuclear bunker in Amsterdam which was originally a sewage pumping station (Picture: Property Noord/Cover Media)
It’s an eerie reminder of the tense years at the height of the Cold War – and for £245,000, it could be yours.
Located in the heart of Amsterdam, the nuclear bunker was originally built as a sewage pumping station before being converted into a fallout shelter in 1960.
The structure, on Postjeskade in the Baarsjes neighbourhood, is 55sqm and features an airlock, 30cm thick concrete walls, electricity, water and – crucially – internet access.
The staircase leading up to the surface is on the other side of an airlock door, designed to protect people from a nuclear attack (Picture: Property Noord/Cover Media)
It was designed to accommodate up to 80 people and was later used, among other things, for Civil Defence storage.
The bunker has three levels, with one above ground and two below.
Visitors enter through a small brick building beside the canal before descending a concrete staircase to two shelters measuring approximately 10sqm and 17sqm.
Both rooms are painted white and have electricity, lighting, heavy steel doors and an emergency exit. A ventilation system uses sand filters to supply fresh air.
The building was originally a pumping station and some of its features still remain (Picture: Property Noord/Cover Media)
A further descent, via a hatch and ladder, leads to the former pumping cellar, which measures about 18sqm.
The cellar remains in a rough condition with original pipe fittings still visible. Estate agent Property Noord said that the new owner will need to do some work on the site.
The property includes a private parking space on a canal-side plot measuring 76sqm.
A heavy steel door with the building plan on the wall (Picture: Property Noord/Cover Media)
Last sold in 2011 for £12,500, it was on the market with an asking price of £920,000 in 2022 but failed to attract a buyer.
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At the time, it was ‘overgrown with ivy, inaccessible to most buyers’, according to estate agent Property Noord. Since then, improvements have been made in an effort to secure a sale.
‘The ivy is gone, and the cellar has been renovated and furnished in the style of the 1960s. Local residents are seeing for the first time what stood there all those years,’ the property listing states.
The ground lease has also been paid up until January 31, 2098.
A sign on the entrance to the nuclear bunker, indicating it can accommodate 80 people
(Picture: Property Noord/Cover Media)
However, prospective buyers face uncertainty over what they will legally be allowed to do with the property.
Hero Panman, co-owner of Property Noord, told RTL Nieuws that the main obstacle was the site’s zoning classification.
Municipal planning documents designate the property for ‘traffic’ purposes, leaving its potential uses unclear.
Despite this potential problem, the estate agent said it had already been approached by 20 interested parties and residential use has not been ruled out as municipality officials are open to discussions about zoning.
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October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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