Welcome to Bawdsey Radar - The Home of Bawdsey Radar Station 1936

Options Appraisal:
In 2008 the Architectural Heritage Fund awarded Bawdsey Radar £4,400 towards the cost of an Options Appraisal on the Transmitter Block. This was carried out by The Morton Partnership and it identifies the most beneficial options for the future of the Transmitter Block.

The Morton Partnership is a firm of Civil and Structural Engineers that specialises predominately in historic buildings. They have been involved in many projects from repairs to Canterbury Cathedral to preparing a Conservation Statement for the Anti-Aircraft (A.A.) Dome Trainer on the disused wartime airfield at Langham in Norfolk. For more information about The Morton Partnership and The Architectural Heritage Fund try www.themortonpartnership.co.uk and www.ahfund.org.uk

Oral History Project:

Bawdsey's Radar History to be Recorded - Heritage Lottery Funded
Thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund Grant of £47,900 the memories of people who were part of the development and use of radar at Bawdsey will be made available to future generations.

The reminiscences of people involved with radar at Bawdsey from the late 1930s to the 1960s will be captured in video and audio formats and stored in the Suffolk and Essex Record Office archives and at The National Archive at Kew. Some of the records will also be accessible from this website.

Suitable materials will be used to produce a school resource pack to enthuse and inform schoolchildren of the vital work which took place at Bawdsey. This oral history project, which has the title 'Shout and Whisper', to represent radar's huge electronic transmission and the reception of the minute signal reflected from the aircraft, is linked to the longer term project to restore the Transmitter Block at Bawdsey.

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