NHER 40950 (Monument record) - World War Two buildings and the site of a World War Two antenna array
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Location
| Map sheet | TG01NW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HOE, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
Shown on (S1) as having four masts in a diamond pattern, one immediately adjacent to main building - waterfilled pit now on site of latter. Marked on (S2) as W T station. Confirmed by local people 2004 as having been attached to Swanton Morley airfield (NHER 2830). Ruined main building of brick; at south end a large room with A-frame roof, to north a corridor with small rooms to each side leads to room at north end. Small rooms contain benches, etc. with machinery, not known if this is original; building much altered for use as pig shed in 1980s. Outside door in east wall is L-shaped wall and traces of overgrown structures. Further east is a second brick building, one room, massive internal concrete buttress at centre of each side wall; roof is of later date. Whole site of buildings derelict and used as dump; area of masts under crop.
E. Rose (NLA), 26 November 2004.
The station in the early 1950s was manned by three RAF National Service Personnel whose main, and only, duty was to turn the transmitters on in the morning and off in the early evening. See Photograph (S3), which shows three of the four masts and Unpublished Document (S5).
A. Beckham (HES), 9 October 2017.
Associated Sources (5)
- <S1> SNF54986 Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 3G/TUD/UK 100 5066 30-Mar-1946.
- <S2> SNF53277 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1950-1959. Ordnance Survey Map. Six inches to the mile. 1950's Revisions..
- <S3> SNF98037 Photograph: Riddle, T. 1951/1952. Photographs of or taken at the World War Two antenna array, Hoe. Digital. tiff.
- <S4> SNF98038 Correspondence: Riddle, T. 2017. Correspondence regarding photographs of NHER 40950 and their use. 24 September. pdf/A.
- <S5> SNF98039 Unpublished Document: Riddle, T. 2017. Life at Hoe in the 1950's. Personal Recollections.
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Record last edited
Oct 9 2017 1:05PM