On this Day – 1st September

On this day in 1936, Robert Watson Watt became Superintendent of the Bawdsey Radar Research Station. It was here that Watson Watt, along with his team, developed the radar technology that proved vital in the Battle of Britain and established the world’s first radar station. To learn more about Watson Watt, the development of radar and the men and women who lived and worked at RAF Bawdsey visit the museum!