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Radar Station on Deal-Dover Road

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CAT:
All I can find is a reference that states 'During the Second World War a camp was established for personal working at the Swingate radar station. The camp originally consisted of huts but these have all now been demolished' 2013 verbal reference by John Guy

Dave Smith:
Castle261. The name Dunkirk rang a bell but we were on a school outing, by coach from Gillingham, and definitely on the way to Sandwich.  I see from the map that Dunkirk is near Faversham, so actually the Deal/Dover road is nearer than that but we certainly didn't go to Dover. Definitely a very flat area like Richborough. It could possibly have been Spring 1939, well before we were evacuated.

castle261:
The only one I past when cycling in 1944 - was at Dunkirk - on the way to Margate.

Dave Smith:
Army, RAF, Naval, they'd all have been a fairly standard layout, with Nissen huts the accommodation. I remember that in the Summer of 1938 there were very tall radar masts erected by the side of the Sandwich Road, probably Richborough. Of course, we didn't know what they were at that time & assumed, some sort of radio masts. As it turned out, one of our saviours in the Battle of Britain.

bmacm:
This photo is from Dec 1940 of the corner of Deal Road (A258) and Dover Road (to Westcliffe). It's from google earth historical imagery. Looks like an army camp.

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