IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Bawdsey, WOODBRIDGE, IP12 3BH

Adjacent to the Bawdsey Manor estate.

Soft sandstones, easily eroded by the sea. The high shingle bank provides some protection from the waves.

Rows of posts disappearing into the distance.

The Transmitter Block Museum is near the base of the mast https://www.bawdseyradar.org.uk/

Taken from Ferry Road, on to which the Suffolk Coast path has been diverted at the moment due to coastal erosion.

The last surviving mast of the original Bawdsey 'Chain Home' radar station, although now carrying modern equipment that may be associated with the coastguard - the circular VHF direction-finding aerial on top is characteristic of HM coastguard stations.

The MCGA mast at Bawdsey in the distance.

Photo taken from near to the site of the WW1, WW2 coastal defence battery of Brackenbury Fort. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackenbury_Battery View north east up the coast to: 2. Walton Castle https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2415620 A Roman era Saxon Shore Fort, built between AD 276-285 and stood circa 30 metres above sea level before being destroyed by sea erosion in the 18th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_Castle,_Suffolk Beyond the site of the castle are the shoals at the mouth of the Deben which shift continuously and ... 2. Martello Tower T https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/353802 The golf links in which the Martello Tower stands were the site of Operation Outward, a British World War II program to attack Germany by means of free-flying balloons. A total of 99,142 Outward balloons were launched; about half carried incendiaries and half carried trailing wires. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Outward 2. Bawdsey Manor https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/62110 Immediately behind Tower T is Bawdsey Manor purchased by the Air Ministry in 1936 to establish a research station for developing the Chain Home RDF (radar) system. RAF Bawdsey was a base through the Cold War until the 1990s. A remaining radar mast can be seen on the skyline to the right of the manor house. There is radar museum in the manor grounds https://www.bawdseyradar.org.uk/ 3. Orfordness Lighthouse https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2600984 To the right of the headland at Bawdsey on the skyline the lighthouse is visbible. It was demolished in July 2020, just after this picture was taken. To the left of the lighthouse are various of the buildings including the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment on the Ness. The Radar Tower is identifiable. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/287811 Until I got this picture home and could blow the picture up to full size I did not know that I had a photo of the lighthouse and I had not been aware that it even was possible to see it up the coast past Bawdsey.