Bawdsey Radar Overview
In 1937 Bawdsey in Suffolk became the world's first operational Radar station. This work was conducted in great secrecy and became the model for a chain of radar stations around the coast (Chain Home). The Grade II* listed Transmitter block is now being restored in a major £1.8m project that has attracted support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Historic England and other partners.
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RAF Bawdsey has had a long association with RADAR as in 1935, Bawdsey Manor in Suffolk was used as a research station for the development of radio direction finding. Directly from this research a Chain Home Radar station was developed on the site and the installation was subsequently handed over to the RAF in 1937. Some fifteen other Chain Home stations were built around the south and east coast of the UK over the next few years. RAF Bawdsey was active throughout the war years with Chain Home, Chain Home Low and Coastal Defence radars and was one of the only sites in the UK during WW2 that operated all 3 types of radar.
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From Wikipedia: Bawdsey Manor stands at a prominent position at the mouth of the River Deben close to the village of Bawdsey in Suffolk, England, about 74 miles (119 km) northeast of London. Built in 1886, it was enlarged in 1895 as the principal residence of Sir William Cuthbert Quilter. Requisitioned by the Devonshire Regiment during World War I and having been returned to the Quilter family after the war, it was purchased by the Air Ministry for £24,000 in 1936 to establish a new research station for developing the Chain Home RDF (radar) system. RAF Bawdsey was a base through the Cold War until the 1990s. The manor is now used for weddings and courses, and has a small museum in the Radar Transmitter Block.
I took off from the beach at Bawdsey and flew at a altitude of 60 metres (200 feet).
Radar Rust
The WW2 radar transmitter block at Bawdsey has had a major restoration but some areas have been left in their original state. The air filtration room is one such area and the equipment is now a little rusty after 80 years. Volunteers have been involved in the conservation work and are ready to tackle the next room in this historic building.
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Bernard Lovell - Work on Radar at Bawdsey Manor (12/108)
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Bernard Lovell (1913-2012), British radio astronomer and founder of the Jodrell Bank Observatory, received an OBE in 1946 for his work on radar, and was knighted in 1961. His steerable radio telescope tracked Sputnik and is now named the Lovell telescope. [Listeners: Alastair Gunn and Megan Argo]
TRANSCRIPT: Instead of taking my equipment to the Pics du Midi, I began an entirely different life. This was before the Second World War began, in August ’39. I covered, reluctantly covered my cloud chamber with a dust sheet and drove to the east coast, to a place called Bawdsey, Bawdsey Manor, and that was a revelation. I had no idea. It would be impossible to maintain today the secrecy that had surrounded the evolution of Bawdsey Manor and Watson-Watt’s work on observation of the so-called radar arc a few years earlier. I arrived at Bawdsey sometime in August with a group of other people, who had been seconded from universities to help with this new system, and was met by A.P. Rowe, the superintendent of the establishment, and the first thing I saw was a cricket bag in the hall, and I thought, Oh cricket, oh what a dissolution. It was the last time I saw a cricket bag for nearly six years. The Bawdsey was then the embryonic, what became known as Chain Home. It was an operational radar defence station with an enormous mast, steel mast 300 foot high carrying the transmitting aerials, and the receiving aerials on the wooden mast I think about 200 foot high. Enormous transmitters and receivers, and from there I was taken to the place near London where, the operational station where they were testing the system and we were demonstrated by a spoof invasion by a French squadron, and there we saw all the RAF girls with their- on their plotting and the high officer above, directing the fighters to intercept the friendly aircraft. Well, I had then been sent to a place in Yorkshire called Saxton Wold, near Scarborough and to be trained further in the use of radar. Now, Saxton Wold was another of these giant chain home radar stations and it was at an operational status and we were- with one or two other people I was sent to the different departments there, the transmitter room, the receiver room, the operations room, to become acquainted with all that was happening in this entirely new science. I had been utterly bewildered by the technology. I had thought that Manchester was- must have been one of the most foremost physics department certainly in the country and perhaps in the world, but the techniques we were using there were obsolete to what I found in Bawdsey. For example we were still heating our soldering irons in the Bunsen burner. I’d never encountered an electric soldering iron until I saw them at Bawdsey. It was that sort of dramatic change, not only in one’s lifestyle but also in the equipment with which one was to become associated. I was at Saxton Wold on that epic Sunday morning in September 1939 when Prime Minister Chamberlain, in a famous broadcast at 11.00 o’clock in the morning, made the announcement that we were at war with Germany. Now, the operator had this enormous cathode ray tube and on it there appeared suddenly masses of echoes, transient echoes on the time base and I said to the operator, I said, Why don’t you report that we’re about to be bombed? Why don’t you report immediately to Stanmore that this- and he calmly said- Oh they’re not echoes from aircraft, they’re what we call ionosphere.
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RAF Marks Castle (Land's End Radar Station) CHL17A
On a slight rise above the world famous landmarks of Land's End, Cornwall, UK, sit the remains of part of Britain's vital defences from World War Two - Chain Home Low Radar Station CHL17A, alternatively known as RAF Marks Castle. This video looks at what is known about the station and what remains of it today.
If you are able to add any more detail to the interpretation of the site, or have relatives who served there, or have wartime photographs of the station or its personnel, please leave a comment.
Music featured includes the Battle of Britain theme by the Geoff Love Orchestra, a wartime recording of I Get By by Charlie Kunz and Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March by the Pro Arte Orchestra.
RAF Neatishead R3 Rotor Radar Bunker - Subbrit
A Subbrit trip to RAF Neatishead museum and R3 rotor radar bunker.
RAF Air Defence Radar Museum | RAF Neatishead Norfolk
Quick visit to the RAF Air Defence Radar Museum with some EX RAF Buddies.
Excellent exhibits and Cold War Control Room includes guided tours. Highly Recommended.
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RAF Wartling ('ZUN') R3 GCI ROTOR Radar Station bunker, East Sussex visited 2019 Part 1
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Dowding system
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The Dowding system was the world's first wide-area ground-controlled interception network, controlling the airspace across the United Kingdom from northern Scotland to the southern coast of England.It used a widespread dedicated land-line telephone network to rapidly collect information from Chain Home radar stations and the Royal Observer Corps in order to build a single image of the entire UK airspace and then direct defensive interceptor aircraft and anti-aircraft artillery against enemy targets.The system was built by the Royal Air Force just before the start of World War II, and proved decisive in the Battle of Britain.The Dowding system was developed after tests demonstrated problems relaying information to the fighters before it was out of date.
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Museum of the British Resistance Organisation, Parham Airfield, Suffolk
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The Museum of the British Resistance Organisation is housed in associated Quonset (Nissen) Huts adjacent to the 390th Bombardment Group Memorial Air Museum Control tower at Parham Airfield, Suffolk.
The Museum includes a unique and rare collection of exhibits, It is possible to see photographs of the officers and men of the Auxiliary Units, information of their weaponry and original examples of the time pencils, fuses and crimping mechanism of the explosives with which they were familiar.
Other displays include examples of dead-letter boxes and intelligence instruction dossiers employed by the Special Duties Section; and as far as possible practical details of the radio communications network installed by the Royal Corp of Signals.
In 2004 a replica Operational Base (OB) was officially opened by the Museum's patrons, Lord and Lady Ironside. The reconstruction of the under ground OB is based upon an example known to have been at Stratford St Andrew, Suffolk.
Visitors are able to tour this exhibit, it has been brought up to ground level for ease of access and landscaped over, you can appreciate the cramped and dismal conditions that the Auxiliers had to work in.
Downderry Radar Station
RDF Downderry was one of the Chain Home radar stations built as Britain prepared for war against Nazi Germany. It stood on the south coast of Cornwall. This video looks at what remains of the site today.
If you can fill in any more details of the site, or have wartime photographs of the site, or had relatives who served there, please leave a comment.
Music includes A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square by Elsie Carlisle (1941), There'll always be an England by Massed Choir (1942) and an unknown wartime recording of Land of Hope and Glory.
Radar Station (1950)
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Experimental Radar Station, London Airport. Sound stars at 01:04:32.
LS radar station buildings at London airport, pan to scanner in motion. Various CUs Scanners in motion. L/S direction-finding aerials. Exterior view radar station. LS plane landing, pan over to scanner. MS aeroplane taxiing past scanner. CU Cathode tube signal operating, showing bad weather blips. Various shots operators working on receiver. Operator testing receivers. CU Receiver, hand pushes in plug. CU operator. CU testing machine. MS lower beam dial revolving. MV receiver showing cathode ray tube operating. CU operator, pan down to cathode tube. CU directional blips revolving on tube. Various shots male and female radar operators sitting at receivers, they wear headphones. CU man writing on chart pan up to cathode tube. More shots operators sitting at receivers. Directional blips rotating on tube. CU girl talking into microphone. MS Operators working receivers, pan to checker. M/S checker, assistant sliding card down board. C/U aircraft checker. CU checker's assistant talking into microphone and writing on card, she slides card down to checker.
Date on old record is 11/01/1950.
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