#WW2 #Suffolk #MilitaryHistory #RadarStation
Kessingland CHL Radar site.
The British had realised the need for methods of detecting aircraft in the event of war and in the mid thirties, research was undertaken and developed on the use of 'Radio Direction Finding', or RDF. A prototype RDF system was built at Bawdsey (called Chain Home or CH) in 1937, and further development led to a 'beamed radar' (called Chain Home Low or CHL). This was capableof detectinglow flyingaircraft. Pakefield was one of the CHL sites operational during the war and was in use from 1940 to the end of 1941.
Toady the remaining buildings are perilously close to the cliff edge. The site was also used as a Cold War Royal Observer Corps post, which still remains although flooded and in a very dilapidated state.
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15 сен 2024