Other titles:COLLECTION OF RADAR FILMS FROM TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT, MALVERN [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: A collection of short clips recording a variety of radar ground stations located throughout the United Kingdom.
Description: Reel 1. An unidentified building; a Dipole aerial; scenes looking across Dover harbour with several masts in the background.
Reel 2. A local, unidentified ground station; Lucero radar equipment; a concrete listening post, possibly the site at Greatstone in Kent; two aerial towers at Dungeness, Kent; two towers at Saxon Wold; a radar dish atop a cliff, overlooking a lighthouse in the Kent area; four radar masts at Great Bromley, Essex; two British Paratroopers using Rebecca mark IV in the field; two control huts with accompanying radar frames; an RAF truck with Rebecca mark IV equipment mounted on the back.
Reel 3. Radar towers near a wood, possibly the Great Bromley site; coastal radar station atop cliffs; ground aerials at Pevensey, Cornwall; two radar towers; Radio Direction Finding (RDF) aerials at Ventnor on the Isle of Wight; a Radar Chain Home (CH) station; three radar towers at Canewden, Essex; RDF and radar ground aerials at Stoke Holy Cross; an unidentified section filmed at what appears to be an RAF base including staff milling around with radar towers in the background; RDF towers at West Beckenham, London; towers at West Prawle, Devon; the Chain Home station at Land's End, Cornwall.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF RADAR FILMS FROM TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT, MALVERN [Allocated Series Title]
