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After World War Two, it was patently obvious that the huge but by now obsolete CHAIN HOME radar network was not going to provide the protection it once had. A new system was planned out and named ROTOR. Much of it would be based upon the CHAIN HOME network with some new additions to the complex of bunkers and installations. The most notable of these additions were the Sector Operations Centre bunkers. These were the largest installations in the entire network and served as command locations for the six air defence sectors of the UK. They were located at Barnton Quarry (Edinburgh), Bawburgh (Norfolk), Box (Wiltshire), Kelvedon Hatch (Essex), Langely Lane (Preston), Shipton (North Yorkshire).

Needless to say, developments in jet propulsion, radar and weapons technology rendered ROTOR obsolete only a short while after it was implemented. In fact, the development of the Type 80 radar just a few short years away, which offered both warning and control capability, made ROTOR obsolete and over manned. However, the bunkers were retained and served a variety of different purposes during the Cold War, including communications centres and local government emergency facilities.

The underground facilities themselves were all quite large, having two or three sub-surface levels and warrens of rooms dedicated to a variety of purposes. Most, in their latter existence, also had small, emergency British Broadcasting Corporation television studios.

In Hot War, these places would make interesting hideouts or locations for dangerous experiments.