Aaaaaaaaaaaaah, there's a sad tragic tale relating to Neatishead. The "hole" as we used to call these, was officially an R3 block, a huge subterranean two story building which housed the radar ops and technical rooms. There are many of them still around the country all more or less deserted, slowly filling up with water now that the day of the cold war is long gone. There is some preservation, have a look at "Subterranea Britannica" website.
What's the tragic bit about Neatishead? Back in the sixties, can't recollect the exact date, a low ranking airman (a.c. plonk) got a bit bored, and, working behind a large display board known as "the tote" set fire to a bucketful of scrap paper. These buildings were a very high fire risk, constructed out of wooden framing plasterboard etc and of course full of electrical gubbins. What with the air conditioning force draught fire would spread rapidly, as it did with Neatishead. The civil fire brigade were called out, the task being too big for the RAF guys, and eventually two quite senior fire officers died. The fire was extinguished eventually by just filling the hole up with water.The airman was charged in a civil court with I think manslaughter and sent to gaol for seven years.
Eventually Neatishead was rebuilt to completely different specs. Now obviously surplus to requirement.
If you buy it, beware, you may not sleep easy at night, thinking of the two fire officers and also the tragic airman who got bored
Shame the Eagle & Child has closed :crying: T'other pub is still open though 
