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Description: | A transmitter block on a "Type A" radar station. It was built in 1938 from brick with a flat reinforced concrete roof. Stenigot was one of twenty sites along the east coast of Britain which had been chosen as "Advanced" stations by September 1937. The transmitter [PRN 47954] and receiver blocks (qv) [PRN 47955] and towers [PRN 47956] - of which the transmitter tower (qv) is the most complete to have survived on any of the Chain Home stations - had been completed by 1939. The transmission and receiving of radio waves were essential functions of radio direction finding equipment (radar), and the operation of both were based in buildings surrounded by blast walls for defence against air attack. "Type A" sites were modelled on the layouts established at Bawdsey Experimental Station. and models established at Bawdsey Experimental Station. For the full description and the legal address of this listed building please refer to the appropriate List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. {1} | Subjects: | Building | Temporal: | 1938 - 1950 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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