Vaults and locations:
Brit-Vault and Vault-Tec built several vaults around the UK and in Ireland, in a higher concentration than any other European country. Vault types were ranked based on purpose, and the types of people resident in them, and were designed with a letter and a number (as opposed to the US system of pure numerics).A-type vaults are to protect the Government, the Royal Family and top military, and are generally the best built of all. No experiments to be carried out on residents.
Vault A1: Complete upgrade of existing underground bunker facilities underneath Houses of Parliament, London. Fully equipped for accommodating up to 150 ministers, business leaders, families and maintenance personnel/androids indefinitely. Supplied with 2x G.E.C.K. Unknown opening date.
Vault A2: Edinburgh, Scotland. Facilities as above for Scottish/Northern England based ministers etc. Vault breached 2180.
Vault A3: Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Facilities as above for Irish and Northern Ireland ministers etc, in accordance with the Mutual Protection Act 2067. Status unknown.
Vault A4: Undisclosed location. Facilities for Royal Family, Royal Guard and Military Chiefs of Staff. Connected to UK military installations via the secure Rogue III communications system. (rumoured to be in Wiltshire). Opened 2248.
B-type vaults are premium facilities, and understandibly, charged top dollar for anyone who wanted to be resident there. The poor didn't even get a look-in, as all maintenance was automated. Residents to be monitored but no experiments to be carried out. No G.E.C.Ks to be supplied.
Vault B1: Kenwood, nr Golders Green, London. Included a Synagogue. Opened 2187 following power failure.
Vault B2: Richmond Park, Greater London. Emergency deer sanctuary. Opened 2200 following oxygen recycling systems failure.
Vault B3: Windsor, Buckinghamshire. Failed in 2106 when automation went down. All residents were sealed in and perished after a power failure (nobody knew what to do).
Vault B4: Edgbaston, Birmingham. Opened 2248.
Vault B5: Altrincham, Greater Manchester. Opened in 2120 following an internal revolt. Radiation levels too high to permit survival.
Vault B6, Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Status unknown.
C-type vaults are standard facilities designed to preserve the greatest minds of the time.
Vault C1: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Opened 2248.
Vault C2: Oxford, Oxfordshire. Opened 2248.
D-type vaults, also known as "Lottery Vaults" gave the opportunity for ordinary people to win the chance to get into a vault. Tickets were not cheap, but considerably less expensive than the price to reserve a place in a B-type vault. As a condition of allowing these vaults, Vault-Tec were allowed to carry out experiments on residents, and rigged some of the results in order to get the right mix of people for certain tests.
Vault D1: Blackheath, London. To study partial oxygenation failure 20 days after chamber sealed. Internal rioting followed by population control measures instigated by the Overseer. Vault opened 2248 following All-Clear broadcast.
Vault D2: Cowlairs Park, nr Glasgow, Scotland. Temperature control failure caused all residents to boil to death.
Vault D3: Sandwell Park, West Midlands. Exposure to mutated Smallpox virus to test effect of irradiated diseases on test subjects. All residents eliminated. Vault designated as Quarantined indefinitely.
Vault D4: Hackney Marshes, London. Vault to be supplied with an All-Clear system that will not be connected to the network. Vault to be sealed indefinitely. Opened 2288 following failure of main power.
Vault D5: Stockport, Greater Manchester. To test psychoactive aerosols on residents to study effects of drug induced aggression. Vault status unknown.
Vault D6: Swansea, Wales. Voting results rigged to ensure residents who have extreme left-wing tendencies were chosen, to study their interactions. Vault opened 2248.
Vault D7: York, North Yorkshire. Residents chosen based on calmness and passiveness, no weapons to be supplied to vault. Ordered to be sealed indefinitely but records show Vault was breached in 2280 by external forces.
Vault D8: Swindon, Wiltshire. For low-ranking military personnel to study interactions. Vault opened 2248.
Vaults D9-D20 at various locations around the UK and in Ireland.
Vault-Tec papers confirm that they constructed an "E-type" vault; however, the details of the construction were classified, as was its exact location and purpose. Sightings of Vertibirds flying to and from North Yorkshire suggest that there is a secret vault there.
(Spoiler: Prior to the Great War, secret outposts for the US government were built at various sites around the world. Vault E in the UK serves as an Enclave base, with two smaller, similar sites near Paderborn, Germany and on Malta.)
F-type vaults were unmanned storage facilities, in order to preserve culture, 4 such vaults were built to store precious documents, artefacts and artworks, the precise locations known only to Vault A1 and to Vault-Tec headquarters in Washington DC (data destroyed at this location).
Brit-Vault gave those unlucky enough to not get a place in a vault instructions on how to build their own atomic shelters in their own backyards. This was, of course, simply a measure to reassure people rather than have them panic, but there were many so called "Z-type" shelters built by hand, which turned out to be valuable caches for survivors in decades to come, long after their original owners had long perished. Many of London's ghouls survived in these shelters, extending and furnishing them.
