Sound File: The village at the end of WW2 and the building of the Cold War radar sites.

Sound File: The village at the end of WW2 and the building of the Cold War radar sites. | Geoff Cant
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Sound File: The village at the end of WW2 and the building of the Cold War radar sites.
Geoff Cant

An extract from an interview with Geoff Cant about life in the village at the end of WW2: wartime bakery, restoring East Valley Farm, the building of the RAF camp and the new Leathercote Point radar installations. Also the day the Russian Fleet passed by and hiding Mrs Crabb in the village.
Interviewer: Frances Campbell

Photograph from St Margaret’s Village archive: The Rotor radar station under construction in the 1950’s

Creator
Geoff Cant
Subject
Bockhill Farm (67)
RAF St Margaret's and Radar Installations (26)
St Margaret's 'People and Places' oral history interviews (6)
Date of creation
2016
Date of coverage
1945-55
Place
St Margaret's at Cliffe
Contributor
Frances Campbell
Reference number
MARG.04765
Format
Sound (6)
Keywords
Cold war (1)
Geoff Cant (1)
Mrs Crabb (1)
Radar (12)
RAF (3)
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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