Southwark Borough Control Bunker

3D Model

Photogrammetry capture of Southwark Borough Control bunker under the community plot at the corner of Vestry Road and Peckham Road, London.

These borough control centres were built during the cold war as a place to continue local government during an attack. Few survive in London today so this is a rare 3D record of one such bunker although it is in very poor condition, with flooding throughout.

All information used in the annotating of this model came from this report by Nick Catford (2001): https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/southwark-borough-control/

Huge thank you to local residents Joanna and Joe for inviting me to scan this bunker.

The bunker entrance is locked closed and it is not accessible to the public in its current state.

3240 photos taken in May 2021 with a Sony a6000 and processed in Reality Capture. Bunker was pitch black so 7 LED camping lights and one LED diffuse panel were used for lighting.