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2008:

LATEST NEWS: Rotherham Borough Control - Demolished October 2007 - Jan 6th

RAF Holmpton Now closed for the winter - reopening for 2008 season on 21st March 2008 - Dec 17th

2008: LATEST UPDATES & ADDITIONS:
Jan 31 Updated: Area Combined HQ Rosyth - Pitreavie Castle (Flag Officer, Rosyth, RN & AOC No 18 Group, RAF Coastal Command)
2007: UPDATES & ADDITIONS:
Dec 15 New: RAF Murlough Bay ('URB') CHEL R11 Rotor Radar Station
Oct 7 New: RAF Portreath - Reporting Post within the UK Surveillance and Control System (UK ASACS) and WW2 Sector Operations Centre
Aug 28 New: RAF Hartland Point ('HAT') R8 GCI Rotor Radar Station.
Jun 5 Updated: RAF Sandwich - Full history of RAF Sandwich & RAF Ash including some archive photographs. RAF Sandwich was a WW2 GCI radar station and later a ROTOR radar station. During the 1980's the site was rebuilt and renamed RAF Ash
May 18   The second edition of London's Secret Tubes by Andrew Emmerson, Tony Beard and members of Subterranea Britannica will be published in October 2007. There's a page with details and updates to the first edition.
Mar 7 Updated: RAF Boulmer 22 archive photographs added.
2006: UPDATES & ADDITIONS:
Dec 18 New: RAF West Myne - CHEL Rotor Radar Station.
Nov 6 Updated: RAF Trimingham - 12 new photographs added showing a mobile radar convoy leaving for an exercise and the radome under construction.
Sept 25 Updated: RAF Sopley - Major update to this site with nearly 200 new pictures detailing the history of RAF Sopley from 1939 - 2006.
Aug 13 New: Wattisham - Anglia Radar: USAF Air Traffic Control Centre.
Aug 10 New: Wattisham Bloodhound Mk. 2 missile site.
Aug 1 New: Rattlesden Bloodhound Mk.1 missile site.
July 11 New: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station and the abandoned town of Pripyat - A few photographs of a recent visit to Chernobyl. A full report will appear on the web site later in the year.
May 30 New: RAF Boulmer GCI R3 ROTOR Radar Station & Control and Reporting Centre in the UK Air Surveillance and Control System.
May 16 Updated: The Regional War Rooms: 1950's.
May 4 New: KGB prison at 1 Leistikowstrasse in Potsdam, East Germany.
April 11 Updated: RAF Trimingham - full history including new archive photographs including colour picture of Type 80 radar at Trimingham plus photographic survey of the R1 bunker.
Jan 2

Updated: RAF Holmpton - extensive history incorporating many archive photographs of Holmpton plus four galleries of new photographs.

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Virtual Tour of Bempton ROTOR bunker - 'Hundreds of sequential images inside an R1'
ROC Group Headquarters and the United Kingdom Warning & Monitoring Organisation'
Ace High NATO communications system
The ROTOR Radar Project
 Deep level shelters in London
Where did the government go?
The Regional War Rooms: 1950's 16/5/06
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