Tony,
“Wings Over Wiltshire”, Rod Priddle, ALD Design & Print, 396 pp, hardback,
ISBN 1-901-587-34-7
HTH
Resmoroh

I roundly applaud Kev35’s penultimate paragraph!! In most cases, in WW2, you (civilians and uniformed) did what you could. Sometimes it was difficult to see it as part of the Great War Effort. Some got headlines – many did not, but quite a lot got headstones
Respectfully
Resmoroh

Just to put the finishing touches to the Wattisham story. I was a National Service Airman Meteorologist there in the early 1950’s. The ATC tower was (in them days) not on ‘mains drainage’. We had Elsans on the ground floor (one for The Officers, and one for the NCOs/ORs – as one would expect!).
These were changed daily by a civilian employee who cycled out to the Tower with the “empties” hung over the handlebars of his bike. He removed the “used ones” by the same method! As he approached the Tower, early in the morning, he could be heard singing (very loudly!). He was known to all and sundry in the Tower as Elsan Neddy. Only those of you of mature years will get the play on words of the name of a crooner of (roughly) the same vintage!
Yrs Aye
Resmoroh

Merkle,
Tks for that – much appreciated.
Rgds
Resmoroh

James,
Oh well! Y’can’t win ’em all. Keep me in the picture if you find anything!
Rgds
Resmoroh

Mondariz, Hi,
Having been involved in UK defence (and other) transmissions for some time, I, too, would like to know the history of this (now defunct) mast. I suspect it is post-WW2.
These communications masts sprouted up all over UK. They had all sorts of things hung on them. They were relay stations for civilian telephone/telegraph channels. They had VHF repeaters for the local fire/police/ambulance services, and some even had transmit facilities for local radio/TV services in areaa where reception of the main transmiiter was not very good. They also carried line-of-site Tx/Rx channels for the Govt and/or military, and/or Civil Defence.
During WW2 there was some considerable activity, in UK, by the then GPO (General Post Office) in providing deep-laid cables. This was obviously very expensive – but in war-time expense does not really count!!! Some of these deep laid cables were pressurised with compressed nitrogen such that if (by either enemy action – or any intruder) the pressure dropped then the ‘plugs’ at either end would pop out and the signals on any channel would not be readable.
One can only assume (post-WW2) that the cost of providing masts was, then, less than the cost of deep-laid cables (much more secure!!!). Nowadays – with the increased comms speeds, and variable redundancy channels, the need for such comms masts may be decreasing (thus the demise of the Crowland mast), but it would be interesting to know what facilities/channels it supported (quite a lot, from the pix!!!) and how, now, they are routed! But we may be straying into areas which are not the prerogative of this Forum – but of other Fora.
Having used such comms masts for various miitary, and civilian, use, I would be keen to know what this one did (when in operation), and what has replaced it.
Sorry to have “gone on” a bit, but this is a fascinating piece of WW2, and post-WW2, history. It may not have been directly connected with airframes (which many on this Forum are primarily occupied) – but it does give some insight as to how/when/where those airframes were controlled.
Rgds
Resmoroh

Hanglands, Hi,
Yup, know the problem! Been there, done it, got the book, seen the film, got the T-shirt!!!!! Same thista when Wales won the Grand Slam!! Get some ZZZ’s in, man!!
Rgds (quietly!)
Resmoroh

Whatever the Joint Analysis Centre does, I would quietly suggest, is possibly NOT done in those two, carefully tended – and used – bunkers in the SW corner of the site. Are those vertical pylons security lighting or aerial arrays.
HTH
Resmoroh