Under The Radar Traditional Cache
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Can park at entrance to happidrome, almost a drivepast.
Cache replaced on 12th September 2010 - new box contains logbook and a load of stuff.
The holiday park at Patrington Haven lies on the site of the camp of the RAF radar station where former Poet Laureate Ted Hughes did his national service as a ground wireless mechanic between 1949 and 1952 three years before the station ceased operations. He said he had nothing to do except watch the grass grow and read Shakespeare. The former guardhouse was reclad as the gatehouse to the park.
A mile or so south is the remains of the brick radar station called a "happidrome" which was used to guide night fighters onto attacking bombers.
The Happidrome and adjacent standby set house still stand on the north side of a minor road running from Patrington to Sunk Island. The happidrome has been divided into three self contained units. Two are currently let out while the eastern end of the building is at present derelict. This part of the building still retains most of its original room layout including the central spine corridor. At some time it has been used as animal pens and each of the rooms has an animal feeding trough. All the rooms have been stripped of any original fixtures and fittings. A new porch has been built on the west side to give access to this part of the building. The original steel emergency exit hatch at the southern end of the spine corridor is still in place.
CONGRATULATIONS TO KESEEKERS FOR THE FTF !
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