2009
TG2502 : RAF Stoke Holy Cross / Radar Museum
taken 15 years ago, near to Upper Stoke, Norfolk, England
RAF Stoke Holy Cross / Radar Museum
The building seen in the foreground is situated right next to the entrance gates and currently houses a small museum >
Link. It used to be the guard house. For more information read
Link.
"Chain Home" was the codename for a ring of coastal radar stations built before and during WWII. The system is otherwise known as AMES Type 1. It was devised by Sir Robert Watson-Watt's Air Ministry research station near Bawdsey, Suffolk, and consists of radar fixed on top of a radio tower mast called a 'station' to provide long-range detection of aircraft. The Chain Home stations were arranged around the British coast, initially in the South and East but later the entire coastline, including the Shetland Islands. The system was dismantled after the war, but some of the tall steel radar towers were converted to new uses.
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