This is a really interesting article and I like the way it’s still pretty much a mystery even after 70 years. Can anyone tell me if the ruins in the picture still exists? And if so where exactly? I tried to work it out but the aerial photo and the newspaper article are a little too small to read. Many thanks
By R Yeldham (15/03/2013)
During the 2nd World War searchlights were surrounded with corrugated iron. Could this be what it was? Not being old enough to visit this site at the time I am puzzled.
By bob croot (26/04/2012)
The corrugated structure is something like the searchlight bases which housed a large searchlight, one of which was at Sudburys Farm on the Downham Road, top of Brock Hill. As a child I thought it was a super ray which brought down those naughty German planes for dropping those bombs and silver tapes that hung from that tree at the bottom of our garden [blocking radio signals].
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This is a really interesting article and I like the way it’s still pretty much a mystery even after 70 years. Can anyone tell me if the ruins in the picture still exists? And if so where exactly? I tried to work it out but the aerial photo and the newspaper article are a little too small to read. Many thanks
During the 2nd World War searchlights were surrounded with corrugated iron. Could this be what it was? Not being old enough to visit this site at the time I am puzzled.
The corrugated structure is something like the searchlight bases which housed a large searchlight, one of which was at Sudburys Farm on the Downham Road, top of Brock Hill. As a child I thought it was a super ray which brought down those naughty German planes for dropping those bombs and silver tapes that hung from that tree at the bottom of our garden [blocking radio signals].
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