I came through to Wales for a holiday this week & while stuck in a traffic jam on the M4 at Port Talbot noticed an unusual building on top of a hill which bore some resemlence to a radar installation.
Subsequent investigation & a visit to google earth confimed it to be a Chain Home Low site- out of curiosity, does anyone have any more info or photos of this site please?
By: Radpoe Meteor - 2nd July 2010 at 07:16
Thank you all for the replies & feeding my curiosity:)- its always nice to see little gems like this survive & with its location it looks likely to do so for quite some time.
By: RadarArchive - 28th June 2010 at 06:04
Subsequent investigation & a visit to google earth confimed it to be a Chain Home Low site
Just a small point of pedantry, but this site was not a CHL station, but rather was CD/CHL. CHL was operated by the RAF and used completely different building types, whereas CD/CHL was primarily Army and used principally to plot shipping for coast artillery.
Not that one, but I regularly drive past the fairly substantial remains of the one at Otterburn Moss in Northumberland
The site at Ottercops Moss was not CHL but CH – very different indeed. There was never any CHL at Ottercops.
By: phylo_roadking - 28th June 2010 at 00:59
You mean this one? Margam…
Lots more detail here – http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/m/margam/index.shtml
By: DaveF68 - 27th June 2010 at 23:48
Not that one, but I regularly drive past the fairly substantial remains of the one at Otterburn Moss in Northumberland
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