Early Days | Author's arrival at RAF Ventnor and first impressions. | |
The Camp | A Plan of the Domestic Site. | |
The Work | Mostly about work but a little about the social life | |
End Game | Sundry excitements and further and final events before being posted away | |
Chain Home | The top-secret wartime equipment: its invention, workings and evolution | |
Installation Team | One of the CH Installation Teams | |
Cievra Autogiro | A slow-flying forerunner of the helicopter used for CH calibration | |
Later Equipment | 1944 Ventnor Site Plan | |
St.Lawrence | An RAF "buried reserve" CH station | |
St.Lawrence | The site as at March 2008 | |
Blackgang | An early Ground Controlled Interception station | |
The Needles | A Joint Services CHL station | |
Type 13 | The Type 13 centimetric heightfinder and its relative the Type 14 | |
Type 13 | Larger pictures of above & T13 simulation | |
Type 80 | The Decca Type 80 : a state-of-the-art search radar of the fifties | |
Type 80 | Type 80 turning gear | |
Type 80 | Turning Gear undergoing repair at RAF Buchan | |
The Hole | What was to be found within an underground R1 'Hole' | |
The Hole | The Site Engineer in Charge tells us how it was built | |
The Consoles | The equipment embraced by that term | |
Stenbury | A picture of the VHF tower there | |
Another Hole | A mysterious small bunker | |
The PDU | A projection radar PPI display used as dynamic plotting table | |
The PDU | More pictures | |
Cavity Magnetron | The invention of which had a tenuous but little known Ventnor connection | |
Fairey Delta Two | The Record Breaker | |
German Radar | A Brief Outline of the Enemy's Ground Radar | |
On Parade | A page devoted to ex RAF Ventnor personnel who have made contact of which those listed below are but a few. | |
Postscript | Giving some idea of the site as it is today | |
Kilroy | That most mysterious and elusive visitor | |
Acknowledgements | Sources: Books, Websites and people | |
Commanding Officers | Names but no details |
Mike Betts | A Radar Operator at Ventnor in 1955 |
John Brown | An Air Defence Operator at Ventnor in 1958 |
Redvers Craddock | A Fireman at the Down Lane site. |
Ron Cripps | Served 1956-59 at Ventnor later rising to the rank of Wing Commander |
Roy Eames | Served in 1952-54. He provided the inspiration for this website being created |
Graham Fielder | Served at Sopley when FD2 achieved the Air Speed Record in 1956. |
G.Hughes | Served at Ventnor in 1954-55 and a latterday Dean of Brecon cathedral |
Elizabeth Hutchings | A Waaf at the Needles and Ventnor |
Bob Irwin | The Sergeant i/c logistics during the final years |
Harold Lewis | Served in 1950 and saw out the last days of CH |
Alan Millar | A cricketing Radar Operator who served in 1951-1952 |
Geo Sutton | An RAF Policeman who saw the Type 80 being dismantled in 1959 |
Alan Stiles | A Decca man who helped build the prototype Type 80 |
Gordon Reid | A footballing Radar Operator in 1950/51 |
Geo Sutton | An RAF Policeman who saw the Type 80 being dismantled in 1959 |
Alan Stiles | A Decca man who helped build the prototype Type 80 |
David Passby | The station Education Officer 1956-1959 |
Geo Sutton | An RAF Policeman who saw the Type 80 being dismantled in 1959 |
Alan Stiles | A Decca man who helped build the prototype Type 80 |
Don Sutherland | Who "volunteered" to dig out the bombs in 1940. |
Reg Tarrant | A Provost Corporal i/c Police in 1953 |
Shaw Taylor (deceased) | A CHL operator who dodged the doodlebugs to become an ITV personality |
Tony Turnbull | An MT Fitter called up at the end of the war. |
Anonymous | A Cowes resident's contribution |
Text © 2007 D.C.Adams
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