|
Contributor Name |
Audio File |
Position / Job |
Details of Audio Clip |
|
Allan Hall |
Click to Play |
Civil servant at Bawdsey in 1960s |
Bawdsey's reprieve by Neateshead's fire |
|
Russell
Barnard |
Click to Play |
(Expert on Bawdsey and Felixstowe) |
2 stories of Albert's bus the transport from
Felixstowe Ferry to Felixstowe |
|
James Atkinson |
Click to Play |
Helped develop the Chain Home receiver (under Cyril
Fogg) |
Wartime travels between Chain Home stations in Austin
12 driven by wife |
|
Olivia Davies |
Click to Play |
Radar operator at Bawdsey 1943 to 1945 |
Bawdsey's "luxury" accommodation |
|
Arthur Allen |
Click to Play |
National Service at Bawdsey 1955-1956 |
Arrival at Bawdsey Manor- 1955 |
|
Hilda Pearson nee Wilkinson |
Click to Play |
Radar operator at Bawdsey in 1943 |
Bawdsey being bombed |
|
Sylvia Clark |
Click to Play |
RAF Bawdsey Cook |
Being a cook at RAF Bawdsey |
|
Henry Collins |
Click to Play |
Security Officer at Bawdsey 1941- 1945 |
Description of Bawdsey "Security" 1940 to 1945 |
|
Bernard Blakemore |
Click to Play |
Transmitter valve Boffin at Bawdsey from 1939 |
Bawdsey survives, a false alarm of a war-time raid on
Bawdsey |
|
Edward Fennessy |
Click to Play |
Helped set up Filter room and interlocking of stations
at Bawdsey from 1938 |
From Chamberlain's 'Peace in our time paper' to Churchill's interest in radar 1939 |
|
Theodora Middleditch |
Click to Play |
Scullery Maid at Bawdsey from 1943 |
Theodora Middleditch remembering her father Charlie
Brinkley the "river man" |
|
Malcolm Debonnaire |
Click to Play |
National Service at Bawdsey 1957 - 1960 |
Cold war practice and an unexpected visitor |
|
Peggy Haynes |
Click to Play |
Radar operator at Bawdsey 1944-1945 |
Description of a near miss of a war-time V1
(doodlebug) at Bawdsey |
|
Bill Curtis |
Click to Play |
Radar operator 1942-1945 |
Doodlebug lands in the marshes |
|
David Harrison |
Click to Play |
National Service at Bawdsey 1951 |
Description of a fearsome drill inspection |
|
Bernard Lovell |
Click to Play |
Worked short time at Bawdsey in 1939 eventually
developed H2S and ASV |
Early radar work at Bawdsey, 1939, comments on
discoverer of radar, ionospheric research, death rays |
|
Alan Cushing |
Click to Play |
Installation of Rotor radar at Bawdsey 1952 to 1953 |
First Rotor radar at Bawdsey, 1952-53 and equipment
for the radar display |
|
Jean Williams nee Coggeshall |
Click to Play |
Radar instructor during WW2 |
Gun laying radar, comments on a "man's work" and girls
as radar operators |
|
Rosie Hall |
Click to Play |
Housemaid at Bawdsey Manor in 1936 |
Housemaid in the Manor for the early scientists at
Bawdsey (1936) |
|
Jose Rule nee Alexander |
Click to Play |
Radar operator/mechanic at Bawdsey 1944-1945 (on Chain
Home and ?Oswald?) |
Being recruited as a radar operator by Lady Jane
Trefusis-Forbes |
|
Douglas Corder |
Click to Play |
RAF MT driver visited Bawdsey in 1954 |
Stories about a missed ferry crossing and the antenna
riggers |
|
David Platt |
Click to Play |
National Service at Bawdsey 1953-1955 |
Producing model planes at Bawdsey |
|
Joyce Curtis |
Click to Play |
WW2 Radar operator |
Bombed by an aircraft categorised as "friendly" |
|
Keith Wood |
Click to Play |
Radar development at Bawdsey 1936 to 1939 |
First detection of ships and aircraft by airborne
radar |
|
Reg Oldfield |
Click to Play |
Bawdsey Radar mechanic 1942-1943 |
Brave riggers and big receivers |
