I’ve only just come across this video and very pleased to have found it. A bit gut ranching, even now, to see the poor thing being dismantled. Nice to see Bill though. I knew Bill at both Northern and Midland.
My Uncle Mick (ex-RAF) lived in Watton and when we visited him we would go for walks by the base and he would point out to me the radar scanner and describe how it worked.
You would never know anything of eastern radar was ever there now. It's all gone, buildings, the lot, houses now accommodate the area eastern stood on. No monument is there to say there was a radar base there. Even RAF Watton has completely gone too, all now houses.
Not quite completely gone, there are still standing the 4 H Blocks and the Airmen's Mess (Mr Read's) on the North side of Norwich Road. First meal in the Airmen's Mess was Christmas Dinner, 1940, but I cant imagine how many meals were served after that. Also, still standing, but built in to the Fresh Motors complex, is the old Drome Garage, originally used as a lorry base when building RAF Watton in 1937 - 1939, then used as a Bomb Disposal Depot. I was disappointed that when developing Blenheim Grange, they moved the main entrance about 8-10 feet nearer to Watton, when the gates at Mr Reads were directlly opposite. But as you say for Eastern, you would never know it was there.
I’ve only just come across this video and very pleased to have found it. A bit gut ranching, even now, to see the poor thing being dismantled. Nice to see Bill though. I knew Bill at both Northern and Midland.
My Uncle Mick (ex-RAF) lived in Watton and when we visited him we would go for walks by the base and he would point out to me the radar scanner and describe how it worked.
You would never know anything of eastern radar was ever there now. It's all gone, buildings, the lot, houses now accommodate the area eastern stood on. No monument is there to say there was a radar base there. Even RAF Watton has completely gone too, all now houses.
Not quite completely gone, there are still standing the 4 H Blocks and the Airmen's Mess (Mr Read's) on the North side of Norwich Road. First meal in the Airmen's Mess was Christmas Dinner, 1940, but I cant imagine how many meals were served after that.
Also, still standing, but built in to the Fresh Motors complex, is the old Drome Garage, originally used as a lorry base when building RAF Watton in 1937 - 1939, then used as a Bomb Disposal Depot.
I was disappointed that when developing Blenheim Grange, they moved the main entrance about 8-10 feet nearer to Watton, when the gates at Mr Reads were directlly opposite.
But as you say for Eastern, you would never know it was there.
1977 - 1983 Happy Days
My dad was at border radar until it closed.
shame