Here are some links to
other websites relating to early
radar. The links are grouped under
the following headings - click the
headings in the table to scroll down the
relevant part of the page.
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Museums |
Local
/ national museums |
Organisations |
Organisations
active in study and raising public
awareness. |
Dorset |
Links
to Dorset websites - mainly to
organisations now occupying
buildings that played a part in the
radar story. |
Nearby |
Nearby
historic radar sites and stations
which have websites |
Information |
Websites
providing more information about
early radar |
Linking |
Linking
to pages within this website |
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Museums
- Local / National |
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Langton
Museum - www.langtonia.org.uk |
The
museum
in Langton Matravers, Dorset, is
affiliated to the Purbeck
Radar Museum Trust, and there
are plans to increase museum's
holding of material
relating to wartime radar
development. Both Leeson
House and Durnford School in
Langton were taken over during
the war for radar development
work. |
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Imperial
War Museum - www.iwm.org.uk
http://duxford.iwm.org.uk |
There
is a branch of the Imperial
War Museum with exhibits &
information at the RAF Duxford
airfield (not far from
Cambridge). While there is
plenty about the fighter
aircraft, pilots and plotting
rooms that were there in the
Battle of Britain - there is not
so much about the radar and radio
systems that were so essential to
guide the aircraft to their
targets. |
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RAF
Air Defence Radar Museum,
Neatishead www.radarmuseum.co.uk |
The
museum
at RAF Neatishead (near Horning in Norfolk) traces the history and development of Air Defence Radar since its invention in 1935.
Neatishead was a site for one
of the early operational Chain
Home radar stations. |
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RAF
Museums at London &
Cosford - www.rafmuseum.org.uk |
Plenty
of information and exhibits on
aircraft - but not much
mention of radar! |
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Defence
Electronics History Society (DEHS) - www.dehs.org.uk |
The
Defence Electronics History Society aims to study and raise public awareness
about defence electronics and the impact it
has had on
the technology in our
lives. The society
organises lectures, publishes
a journal and archives
material.
DEHS was formerly
the 'Friends of
CHiDE' (Centre for the History of Defence Electronics) based at
Bournemouth University. CHiDE (& hence DEHS) owe their existence to
a visit made by John Beavis to
an exhibition mounted by the
Purbeck Radar Museum Trust in
the mid 1990s in Swanage Town
Hall (see milestones). |
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Bawdsey
Radar - www.bawdseyradar.org.uk |
Bawdsey
Manor, in Suffolk near the
coast, was the home of the early radar
development work from around
1935 - 1939. The Bawdsey
Radar Trust organises events
and exhibitions and would like
to restore the
transmitter block to create an exhibition, educational facility and visitor attraction. |
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Defford
Airfield Heritage Group
- http://deffordairfieldheritagegroup.wordpress.com |
When
the radar development work
moved to Malvern in 1942,
nearby Defford Airfield was
used for flight trials of
radar equipment. The Defford Airfield Heritage Group
(DAHG) aims to record, research and preserve the history of Defford Airfield, especially the work of the Telecommunications Flying Unit in the development of radar. |
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Poole
& Dorset Adventure Centre
- www.dorsetadventure.co.uk |
This
field centre is near Renscombe
Farm on what was 'E-site' when
the radar research was based
here. It is the only
building which is still
standing, though what remains
has been substantially
modified / rebuilt. |
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CoastWatch,
St Aldhelm's Head
- www.nci.org.uk/stalbanshead |
The
CoastWatch station is very
close to the radar
memorial on the clifftop,
and to the ruined buildings of
what was D-site in a disused
quarry at the edge of the
cliff. Some of the
Trust's publications
are available from the station
when it is manned. |
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Leeson
House - www.leesonhouse.com |
Leeson
House was a school before the
war, and was taken over for
the centimetric radar
development work making use of
the revolutionary cavity
magnetron. The buildings
are now used as a field
studies centre. |
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Swanage
Town Council -
www.swanage.gov.uk |
Official
Swanage website with links to
Swanage Tourist Information
Centre website etc. |
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Ventnor
Radar - www.ventnorradar.co.uk |
Website
devoted to the radar station at Ventnor on the Isle of Wight - the
next Chain Home station along the chain from Worth Matravers. |
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Friends
of New Forest Airfields - www.winkton.net/fonfa.htm |
The
Friends of New Forest Airfields is a charity formed to commemorate
the role of New Forest airfields by building a memorial,
establishing an education programme and setting up an
interpretation centre. Airfields at Sopley, Christchurch and
Hurn had close links with the radar development work at Worth
Matravers (eg. Sopley hosted
trials of Ground Control of
Interception). |
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Royal
Air Force, history
- www.raf.mod.uk/history |
The
RAF's history section has some
references to RDF (radar)
stations in the Battle of
Britain story. accessed
Feb 2011 |
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The
Radar Pages - www.radarpages.co.uk |
Dick
Barrett, a radar enthusiast, created this website
to give an outline of British Air Defence Radar from Chain Home to the present day. |
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