Date: 12 Jan 2026
Ok, so this first batch has some uncomfortable stuff in it.
I remember when I was a kid, my grandad took me to a museum that his company ran somewhere up north. It was all about TV and radio and broadcast and stuff like that. I remember it was cool, but always felt a little bit off when I went there. I guess I know why now
I don’t remember any R. Kelloway from when I went, and some of the stuff in here must have been changed before I visited, but the Signal Safari is burned into my memory – it was a sort of tunnel, painted green and had these weird lights that flashed on and off as you moved around them. Christ knows what they were actually doing. I wish I still had anything left from the gift shop though.
I also found this clipping talking about the opening of the museum. It looks like it was torn out of a newspaper or company bulletin or something
I never knew the place as ‘Surface Site Alpha’ – I suppose that’s probably the internal designation for the museum. Grandad only ever took me to this one place, but ‘Alpha’ makes me wonder if there were (are?) more sites were the public were unwittingly placed into these weird experiments?
Most of the documents here have a classification on them – C0-C4 and P0, each with a weird codename (C3/Wave-Blue in the case above.) I managed to find a document that details the classification scheme in one of the boxes. It’s from 1989, so I don’t know if there was a change to the classifications then or if it was just an update/reminder memo to people, but I’ve added that here as well to give some more context to each document.
The document mentions C0 files being “existentially sensitive” and seems to be the top secret designation. I’ve not found any documents with a C0 classification so far, but there’s thousands of these things, so who knows what might be there.
It also mentions P0 as being public information. I’ve not found any of these yet either.
There’s still boxes and boxes of this stuff. More soon.
— John