An Essex farmer who owns a former Government “secret nuclear bunker” says he and his family will live in it “for as long as it takes” if Putin strikes the UK with his missiles.

Mike Parrish, 76, from Kelvedon Hatch, near Brentwood, told Express.co.uk that in the “eventuality” the UK becomes embroiled in a nuclear conflict he and his family could shelter in the bunker for “25-30 years” or even longer, if the outside world remained contaminated.

The farmer, who is the fifth generation of his family to live on the farm, has “water buried under there” as well as “tinned food” and even its own “sewage system”, that would enable the occupants of the bunker to survive a nuclear strike.

He purchased the fortified shelter from the Government in 1994 after it had been decommissioned, but he didn’t want to disclose what it cost him.

Previously it was designated to be occupied by the Prime Minister and senior state officials, who would run the country from underground, if Britain had suffered a nuclear attack.

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At only around 29 miles from Downing Street, the Essex farm was ideally located to be the Government’s headquarters if the country was engulfed in radiation. The plot of land required to build the bunker was forcibly purchased by the state in 1952 during the early stages of the Cold War.

Detailing the deal, Mike said: “Under the threat of compulsory purchase [the Government] took this 25 acres in the middle of the farm, bulldozed the hill away, built the bunker, put it back, and then we farmed over it so the Russians wouldn’t know it was here.”

He said deciding who would get a spot in the safe haven would be a bit like drawing up a “wedding list”.

He explained: “When it comes down to it’s a wedding list, because you’d obviously have your parents… and you have your daughter.

“Well, do you have your daughter’s boyfriend? Well that would depend, it’s just like a wedding. Yeah, you probably would if they’ve been going out for a while.”

He continued: “But would you have the daughter’s boyfriend’s parents? Probably no. And so it’s sort of a wedding list.

“And then you get down to the bottom. And that’s when you want the chap who can change a light bulb. So that life can go on afterwards.”

Incredibly, despite having access to a nuclear bolthole, Mike’s wife told him she won’t be moving down there if the worst happens.

He said: “My wife, for example, wouldn’t come down here. There’s nothing worse than being down here for six months, with not knowing much.

“And so she’s in the camp that would like to go and stay outside and see what’s what.”

However, Mike isn’t convinced his wife’s stance is a wise one.

He added: “But the reality of that [staying outside], when you delve into it, apart from superficially, is that you will get a dose of radiation and you’d die slowly over the next nine months of radiation or leukaemia or whatever.

“Outside there, you’ve got marauding gangs and they want your food, raping and pillaging, and it ain’t going to be fun.”

Even if Mike’s wife doesn’t want to take up her place, there are plenty of others that have tried to secure a spot in the bunker for a hefty fee.

He revealed: “On 9/11, I had over 200 people… part of the deal was that in those days, we said for £30,000, we will guarantee your space, down in the bunker here for 10 years.”

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The farmer, who now runs the facility as a museum, was quick to point out that “nobody converted” their expression of interest in securing a spot and paid the asking price.

However, with the conflict in Ukraine continuing to rage, Mike revealed that he’s once again been receiving correspondence from those fearful that a nuclear winter may be on the horizon.

“So now we have the Ukraine… and we had 15 people this time. But of course, I’ve learned that I say ‘well, if you’ve got 500,000 in liquid assets, we will talk to you’.

“You are going to be down here for 10-15 years, you’re going to want lots of food.

“People are superficial, you know, they still think you go down underground, come up [the] next morning and carry on working – you won’t.

“If there is that sort of thing [a nuclear strike], and you’re going to be underground, and you’re going to be down there for as long as it takes.”

The bunker, although operational, is the central feature of Mike’s activity centre business on the site.

He said: “The bunker itself is a museum… tourists obviously come and go round.

The tour takes about an hour and a half, for which they pay us a fee.

“We also have the zip wires and the high ropes on top because when people come out for the day, they want something to do.

“The hour and a half it takes to go around the bunker, it needs something else. So we have a children’s high ropes adventure course. We also have on the farm, the best mud run in the country… we have a wild forest, as we call it, where Scout groups can spend a day running through mud, doing other zip wires and other impossible objects to climb over.

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