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RAF St Margaret's and Radar Installations

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Building the Radar Station, underground section, Bockhill. c1950s
Bockhill, at the far eastern end of Salisbury Road and adjacent to the Dover Patrol Memorial, is an open area in which this Radar Station was sited. This black and white photograph, c 1950s, shows the ...
Cliffhanger - A Gunner's Story by J.W. Clark (Pages 1-8)
'Cliffhanger' is a diary kept by J.W Clark as an Anti-Aircraft gunner during WW2. The diary spans a period from 1938, when Mr Clark joined up, to the end of 1940. The majority of this ...
Cliffhanger - A Gunners Story by J.W Clark (Pages 26-35)
'Cliffhanger' is the title of a diary kept by J.W.Clark as an Anti-Aircraft gunner during WW2. The diary spans a period from 1938, when Mr Clark joined up, to the end of 1940. The majority ...
Cliffhanger - A Gunners Story by J.W.Clark (Pages 16-25)
'Cliffhanger' is the title of a diary kept by J.W Clark as an Anti-Aircraft gunner during WW2. The diary spans a period from 1938, when Mr Clark joined up, to the end of 1940. The ...
Cliffhanger - A Gunners Story by J.W.Clark (Pages 36-43)
'Cliffhanger' is the title of a diary kept by J.W Clark as an Anti-Aircraft gunner during WW2. The diary spans a period from 1938, when Mr Clark joined up, to the end of 1940. The ...
Cliffhanger - A Gunners Story by J.W.Clark (Pages 44-49)
'Cliffhanger' is the title of a diary kept by J.W.Clark as an Anti-Aircraft gunner during WW2. The diary spans a period from 1938, when Mr Clark joined up, to the end of 1940. The majority ...
Cliffhanger - A Gunners Story by J.W.Clark (Pages 50-53)
'Cliffhanger' is the title of a diary kept by J.W.Clark as an Anti-Aircraft gunner during WW2. The diary spans a period from 1938, when Mr Clark joined up, to the end of 1940. The majority ...
Cliffhanger - A Gunners Story by J.W.Clark (Pages 9-15)
'Cliffhanger' is the title of a diary kept by J.W Clark as an Anti-Aircraft gunner during WW2. The diary spans a period from 1938, when Mr Clark joined up, to the end of 1940. The ...
Coastguard Stations in 1841 and radar scanners at Leathercote Point, a short article
A typed document : Village News - The History Society, and is about local Coastguard Stations in 1841 and the radar scanners at Leathercote Point, St Margaret's Bay.
Correspondence between the Ratepayers Association and RAF re use of electricity. 1958
From Ratepayer's Association to RAF re excessive electricity use. 8 Oct 1958
First production of the RAF Dramatic Society in the Village Hall. 1956.
A brief press cutting announcing the first production of the RAF Dramatic Society, 'Rookery Nook', in the Parish Hall at St Margaret's at Cliffe. Annotated 1956.
Leathercote Point and the postwar Radar Station
Photograph of Leathercote Point ( from the Gordon Denoon album). The coastguard hut can be seen in the background next to the radar installation and the Dover Patrol Memorial. The two figures in the foreground are ...
Leathercote Point from South Foreland. 1952
This is a postcard from the Frith Series No SMB 48 and shows a view looking east from The Front across the Bay towards the Dover Patrol Memorial. Alongside are the radar masts which were ...
Peter Ustinov's Blockhouse with Cold War Radar installation in the distance
A photograph showing The Blockhouse on the cliff top above the Bay where Peter Ustinov was stationed during the war and which he later bought. On the other side of the Bay can be seen ...
RAF camp in Reach Road to be derequisition. 1954
Typed copy of newspaper notice, October 1954. The former RAF camp, situated in Reach Road to be derequisitioned. The site became the Maddieson Holiday Camp
RAF St Margaret's personnel. 1952/3
Photographs of RAF personnel and friends, mainly 'off duty' shots in the Bay and at the RAF camp in Reach Road (now St Margaret's Country Club). Donated by former RAF Sergeant Brian Dalton who is ...
Sound File: The village at the end of WW2 and the building of the Cold War radar sites.
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 ...
Spot The Difference! Two general views of St Margaret's Bay.
Two colour postcards of St Margaret's Bay. Notice that In most respects the two photographs are identical. For instance the parked cars in the Bay and the position of the people strolling on the promenade are ...
St Margaret's Bay from Ness Point. c1960
This postcard view dated 1st June 1962, looks NE across the well groyned Bay. Note the large radar scanner on the cliff top to the right. Descriptive notes are attached
St Margaret's Bay from Ness Point. late 1950s
This view from The Ness begins to show cliff erosion there. The beach looks quite park like with the trees. Obviously this area has been cleared of all the war time debris and the new ...
St Margaret's Bay from South Foreland. Late 1950s
Black and white postcard of St Margaret's Bay from south-west to north-east. The ROTOR Radar Station is in the distance next to the Dover Patrol Memorial. Notice the main radar dish is missing so probably ...
View of Bockhill ROTOR Radar Scanner and antenna
Black and white photograph taken from the cliffs south-west of the Bay looking towards the north- east with the Bockhill Radar Scanner on the horizon. Undated
View of Bockhill ROTOR Radar Station from Ness Point. Undated
Black and white postcard titled 'The White Cliffs, St Margaret's Bay'. showing on the far eastern cliffs scanners and antenna on Bockhill Radar Station. Postcard by Shoesmith & Etheridge Ltd, Hastings, England
View of Bockhill ROTOR Radar Station. c1955/56
Black and white postcard looking across the Bay from south-west to north-east showing the radar scanners just erected adjacent to the Dover Patrol Memorial. Note the WW2 lookout just above the Bay in front of the ...

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Cliffe House School, Cliffe Hotel, Cliffe Tavern, White Cliffs Hotel
Coastguard Station/ Bluebirds cafe
Council Housing
Granville Hotel
Holiday Camp, Reach Road
Holly Lodge
Knoll Garage
Old Vicarage
Oxney Court and Manor
Portal House ( previously Morley House and Marine House)
Pubs
RAF St Margaret's and Radar Installations
South Foreland Lighthouses
South Sands House (previously 'The Hermitage')
St Margaret's at Cliffe Primary School
The Bay Hotel or Lanzarote Hotel
The Excelsior Tearooms
The Old School, Kingsdown Road
Village Bakers
Village Hall (or Parish Hall)
Village Shops
Wallett's Court

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