Under the Radar Traditional Cache
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Trimingham Radar Station was established in late 1941 as an army coastal defense radar station for detecting German E-Boats and low flying aircraft; it was equipped with a CD Mk.4 radar.
In 1947 Trimingham was placed in the Northern Signals Area under 90 Group.
In June 1950 RAF Trimingham was selected for the ROTOR programme as a Centimetric Early Warning Station (CEW). In the provisional plan (17.12.1950) the station was to be equipped with, the Type 54 CHEL radar on A 200 foot tower one Type 13 Mk IV height finding radar on a plinth, one Type 14 Mk. 8 (on a plinth) and one Type 14 Mk. 9 (on a gantry) surveillance radars. The station was completed in November 1952 coming on line early the following year.
In August 1952 Trimingham was selected as the location for the first production Type 80 Mk1 search radar.
The Type 80 was finally installed in 1954 and handed over to the RAF on 10.2.1955 making the two Type 14's redundant, these were dismantled and removed. This was one of five Type 80 Mk 1's installed throughout the UK
The site here near Overstrand was built in 1947 and became the VHF Transmitter station providing communications between the controllers at the main radar down the coast road at Trimingham and aircraft, and was closed in1963 when RAF Neatishead took over the radar cover.
The ‘National Air Traffic Services’ then part of the Civil Aviation Authority opened a radar site here in 1986; the radar you see here now replaced the original one in 2004
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