I have been tempted to buy this book, Watching the Skies: History of Ground Radar for the Defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force from 1946 to 1975
There is not much out there in print about post-war radar, but I would be very wary of this book which contains a great number of errors. There is a reference to the AAOR at Frodsham, with an image, in the very good book, Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989 by Wayne D Cocroft and Roger JC Thomas.
Page 162 of Watching the Skies mentions the following: “The first Orange Yeoman prototype equipment was eventually completed but its location at Frodsham had already been made obsolete by the abandoning of a point defence system. It was completed in its original, unmodified form, mainly because a delay in the siting of the second prototype allowed time to complete the development more satisfactorily on the first one, and it was used for several years for training. An attempt was made to interest the Civil Aviation Air Traffic Control Experimental Unit in both the radar and the data handling equipment since it could have provided a radar facility to Northern ATC Centre at Preston which would not otherwise be available for several years. It was very clear, however, that the civil authorities could not possibly afford to operate and maintain such an elaborate facility even if the whole installation were to be given to them. By the middle of 1959, therefore, all the equipment at Frodsham had been dismantled, most of it to be used elsewhere at RRE, at the contractors, or incorporated into the second prototype.”
There is no index, so it can be very difficult to find information, but this is the only mention I can see of Frodsham.
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