Entrance to former meteorological station, Pease Pottage
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Entrance to former meteorological station, Pease Pottage
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 30 Mar 2021
This was sold off to Lighthouse Systems, who offer systems and software for the manufacturing industry. When it was operated by the Meteorological Office, high altitude weather balloons were launched here, which must have caused increasing problems as Gatwick Airport traffic grew. A video of short clips of what went on here in 1956 may be seen here: https://www.britishpathe.com/video/meteorological-radio-sonde-balloon .
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Image Location
Latitude
51.081731
Longitude
-0.211551