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Wartime transmission experiments and two unknown sites in County Down

The 1930s and 1940s saw huge advances in the development of radio and radar technologies, with one of the most sophisticated networks of Radio Direction Finding (RDF) being deployed in…
  • Northern Ireland, Second World War

A study of the pillbox at Murlough Beach

For those of you who are familiar with the beach at Murlough Bay nature reserve, you may have noticed a rather unassuming pile of rubble. Without interpretation you may have…
  • Original Research, Second World War

How long did it take to build a pillbox?

25 unskilled labourers, 6 carpenters, 4 steel fixers, 2 concrete workers, 1 mixer driver, 1 superintending officer One of the privileges of collecting contemporary military manuals (see the full list…
  • Northern Ireland, Second World War

Downhill Radio Navigation Site

The use of radio technology transformed the air war during the Second World War. In a short space of time RADAR was born and fine tuned to detect and track…
  • Northern Ireland, Original Research, Second World War

Radar in Northern Ireland 1939 – 1945

One rainy afternoon in lockdown, I thought I would do some research on finding evidence for the WW2 radar sites that were once dotted around Northern Ireland. Finding photographic evidence…
  • Original Research, Second World War

Second World War Aircraft Direction Finding

The start of the twentieth century was a post-industrial technological arms race, and the traces left behind are like a timeline of pioneering developments in an attempt to outsmart our…
  • Northern Ireland, Operation Banner, Second World War, Visit Reports

Site Visit – Rifle Range, Divis

In the hills above Belfast on Divis is a disused 600 yard military firing range, constructed in 1943 most likely to accommodate training for the high numbers of American troops…
  • Northern Ireland, Second World War, Visit Reports

Site Visit – Signal Station, Killylane

On the hills approximately 6 miles to the north east of Derry/Londonderry is the small but abandoned signal station at Killylane. Constructed during the Second World War, the site was…
  • Kent, Second World War

Lower Medway Pillboxes

Selecting a marker will bring up a link with the name and OSGB Grid Reference of the location; click on the link and you will be taken to an image/s…
  • Kent, Second World War, Visit Reports

Site Visit – Ide Hill Ammunition Park

As the war in Europe intensified and the struggle for the protection of Britain grew, so did the need for the storage of more and more ammunition. Storage predictions proved…
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