Dear Sir, Re Anne Diamond / RADAR inventors I was kindly sent a hard copy of the article from the Mail Online on Sunday by Anne Diamond. Fortunately, she has no need to worry about the work of the Boffins of Malvern and their tremendous contribution to the war effort during WW2 and indeed continuing […]
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Jim Lewis shares some secrets
I saw the piece on Midlands Today and the bit about a couple getting divorced because the wife believed her husband was being unfaithful because he was going all over the country but refused to say why reminds me of what was said to me after leaving RSRE in the mid 1970’s and transferring a […]
My Radar Family Memories – Patricia Anne Lloyd (Nee McPhail)
My father, Arthur McPhail, was seconded from Hadfields Steelworks, Sheffield down to Malvern TRE in 1944. H e first worked at the North Site (Pale Manor). I believe he worked on Defensive Weapons and Radar. My first memories are of living in a flat in Teme Road, Tolladine, Worcester, along with other “Ministry Families”. We […]
Keith Ettle shares a story of his Dad
One night in the 70’s when he was about 80+ we were watching a tv prog about ‘Windows’. He was true Bristolian and said ‘Gaw blimey kid, now I know what I did’. He would set up the machines to cut the printed paper that Robs printed for wrappers and boxes so that it was […]
Neil Wooding asks “have you come across a Terry Snowball?”
Have you come across a Terry Snowball. He was doing his national service in the mid 1950s on Radar Recce Flt at RAF Wyton. Thanks Neil Wooding.
Alan Watson shares his memories of Bill Watson meeting the King and Queen 19th July 1944
Dear Anne, I was given your email by my Aunt, Rosemarie Watson, who told me that you are looking for information about the Radar research during the second world war. I am the second son of Keith Watson who was the first son of about whom Rosemarie wrote to you about. We had a copy of […]
Robert Webbie tells us of his parents – Eric and Doris
Hello Anne, Thank-you for your reply and for giving this subject a wider audience. In answer to you first question…My mother is the shorter (5ft 2ins) lady right on the very corner, I have attached another photo with a pointer to her. (hope it works) At the start of the war my mother came down […]
Saturday March 20 2021
Thanks to everyone for the most amazing response to the launch of the website, and my asking for stories and anecdotes and pictures. Plus I’ve heard from those of you who already have an historic interest and have written books and run websites that mark this amazing radar story. And about the people- parents and […]
Barry Symonds shares his story
My (not particularly exciting) story is simply that during the nineteen eighties, on several occasions I escorted a number of teenage apprentices on visits to an adventure experience trip to Dorset. One of the centres that we used had a large display board on the wall explaining that the building had been used to examine […]
Nik asks Where did the glider come from, how was it launched and where did it land?
Hello Anne, Thanks for your reply, unfortunately I have no photos from that period. Only a couple of incomplete albums from my father’s RAF days. I am certain he knew that something was being developed to try and locate enemy aircraft with radio waves, most local people knew something was going on when the […]