|
Contributor Name |
Audio File |
Position / Job |
Details of Audio Clip |
|
Ken Frost |
Click to Play |
WW2 Chain Home Radar technician at Bawdsey |
Halifax bomber crashes into receiver tower December
1943 |
|
Russell Smith |
Click to Play |
National Service at Bawdsey 1953-1955 |
Difference between aircraft plotting now and in
1955-57 |
|
Bob Curle |
Click to Play |
Aerial erector 1950-1952 |
Meeting Robert Watson-Watt at Bawdsey post-war |
|
Mary Collins |
Click to Play |
WW2 Morse operator |
War-time morse operator in Felixstowe and observations
on operations at Bawdsey pre-war |
|
Joan Goult |
Click to Play |
Shorthand typist at Bawdsey 1939 |
Description of "Purple Warning" as warning of V2 (?) |
|
Reg Mann |
Click to Play |
Radar fitter at Bawdsey 1946-1947 |
Dangerous operations by radar fitter at Bawdsey 1946 |
|
John Dugmore |
Click to Play |
WW2 Radar operator |
Mass raid of Heinkels from first radar detection to
viewing to going out to "guard" a shot-down Heinkel |
|
Roy Simons |
Click to Play |
Responsible for installation of Rotor at Bawdsey
1952-1953 |
The first operational Rotor system- the successor to
the Chain Home systems at Bawdsey in 1953 |
|
Joan Goult |
Click to Play |
Shorthand typist at Bawdsey 1939 |
Shorthand typist at Bawdsey July 1939 left September
1939 at outbreak of war description of the work there |
|
Brenda Smith |
Click to Play |
WRAF at Bawdsey 1953-1955 |
Social & Sport by radar operator at Bawdsey post-war |
|
Alan Hazlewood |
Click to Play |
RAF 1946 onwards, worked on Chain Home |
Description of an unannounced inspection at RAF
Stenigot in 1946 |
|
Ernest Putley |
Click to Play |
Worked at TRE, visited Bawdsey in WW2 |
Sunday Soviets, Station lectures and "Comrades" from
Sir Stafford Cripps at the end of the war |
|
Roy Clark |
Click to Play |
RAF Bawdsey barber |
Tale of the Barber of Bawdsey early 1950s |
|
Robert Jones |
Click to Play |
Radar mechanic at Bawdsey 1943-1944 |
A practice German attack on Bawdsey (a "stand to") in
1944 |
|
Willie Robertson |
Click to Play |
At Bawdsey and TRE in WW2, developed the Gee receiver |
Working for Sid Jefferson in the receiver group in the
war. Mrs Jefferson's role in the use of women in
technical roles in radar |
|
Gwen Reading, nee Arnold |
Click to Play |
Chain Home Radar operator at Bawdsey 1943-1945 |
Description of overall Chain Home system |
|
Peggy Haynes |
Click to Play |
Radar operator at Bawdsey 1944-1945 |
Some comments on WAAFs and WRENs near the end of the
war |
|
Jack Decker |
Click to Play |
WW2 Radar mechanic |
Description of effect of first use of window by
Germans |
|
George Buckland |
Click to Play |
RAF Bawdsey 1947 |
Description of severe winter at Bawdsey 1947 and the
extended leave and the subsequent spring |
|
Derek Rothery |
Click to Play |
Squadron Leader at Bawdsey until its
close in 1991 |
A meeting between Squadron Leader Derek Rothery, and
Dr (Taffy) Bowen, the first man (in 1936) at Bawdsey
Manor to set up radar work when the group moved from
Orfordness |
|
Ann Welch |
Click to Play |
War-time Chain Home and Gee operator |
Gee and Tynham Manor |
|
David Richie |
Click to Play |
Director of Development- James Clerk Maxwell
Foundation |
Radar Background |
|
Elaine Townsend |
Click to Play |
Radar Operator |
Late 1960 work of Bawdsey radar operator |
|
Hugh Conroy |
Click to Play |
Radar Rigger |
Rigger on wartime mobile radar |
|
Roderick Watt |
Click to Play |
Niece of Watson-Watt |
Memories of Robert Watson-Watt |
|
Roger Townsend |
Click to Play |
Radar maintenance (subsequently Bloodhound) |
Radar maintenance at Bawdsey in the late 1960s |
|
Ted Cooke-Yarborough |
Click to Play |
Scientist at TRE |
With TRE at Dundee immediately after Bawdsey |
|
Tom Watkins |
Click to Play |
War-time RAF Navigator then Radar Supervisor |
"Filtering" and the Test Match on Radar |
