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Something to do with Filingdale I'll bet :lol:
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It always looked so much better when it had the golf balls :(
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My dad worked there. As did I as a contractor. Interesting place, this was when they had the radomes.
I used to hand my camera in at the guardpost on entry but keep another with me in the complex.
I was working in the support site, communications with the US. The staff there spent most of their time yakking with their wives back home.
It was a dangerous job though - lethal flying-









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myglaren wrote: 12 Oct 2019, 18:25
It was a dangerous job though - lethal flying-




-golfballs :(
In the event of WW3 that site would be extremely high up on list list of {insert name of current hostile state / EU :-D } targets - if the radar operators were lucky they would have had enough time to issue a warning to HM Govt. and then put the kettle on..... only those with a liking for incredibly weak tea would have had time for a sip :wink: Although the modern site is full of blast doors and protection, as one of the operators told us - 'For all the protection it offers, we might as well be sitting in a shed on the Moors' 8-[ [-o<
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myglaren wrote: 12 Oct 2019, 18:25 My dad worked there. As did I as a contractor. Interesting place, this was when they had the radomes.
I was working in the support site, communications with the US.
Can you remember if the old (golf ball) site ran at 60Hz ?
Apparently their party trick is/was not to tell new incumbents that the site is at 60Hz so their plug-in clock-radios would quickly tell the wrong time :lol:
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The "Concorde" picture reminded me of another viaduct I came across, this one actually bridges a county border. 50 points if you can name the two counties concerned!! :-D
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bobins wrote: 12 Oct 2019, 18:48
myglaren wrote: 12 Oct 2019, 18:25 My dad worked there. As did I as a contractor. Interesting place, this was when they had the radomes.
I was working in the support site, communications with the US.
Can you remeber if the old (golf ball) site ran at 60Hz ?
Apparently their party trick is/was not to tell new incumbents that the site is at 60Hz so their plug-in clock-radios would quickly tell the wrong time :lol:
No, never came across that.

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mickthemaverick wrote: 12 Oct 2019, 19:15 The "Concorde" picture reminded me of another viaduct I came across, this one actually bridges a county border. 50 points if you can name the two counties concerned!! :-D

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They all look rather similar.
My dads allotment was almost under the last arch of this, next to the gasworks.
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I am hoping Mick that the colour of the brick is indeed a giveaway to its location. If I am right Queen Victoria refused to go across the bridge in the Royal train, and went by horse and carriage instead upon its opening.

I will dig up the posts about it from the archives. Of course I may well be miles off the mark...first thoughts without looking anything up.

The counties in question would be Hertfordshire and the one above it probably Cambridgeshire at a guess!

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This was one of the posts Mick
NewcastleFalcon wrote: 14 Feb 2018, 18:05 There could be a BSA Starfire and a Vauxhall Victor estate in the background too!

My picture of Locomotive 90000, (formerly 63,000 of course!) shows it travesring the Welwyn Viaduct at Digswell on the East Coast Main Line. Quite a structure loads of arches, bricks fired from clay dug on the site, and Queen Victoria on it's opening refused to go over the viaduct got out the train, and took a horse drawn carriage at ground level and rejoined the train when it had got over the bridge!

One of Hertfordshire's finest.

The viaduct carries the East Coast Main Line, which has to narrow from four tracks to two to cross the viaduct, making it a bottleneck restraining capacity over this strategic transport route.

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Yes Steve I guess they do all look similar so a little clue to the trans county one. It has 82 arches!! :)

No sorry Neil, you are barking up the wrong tree with the Digswell viaduct, which is only a few miles from me and I frequently drive under it! :)
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I think that one has been featured on the forum previously.
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We are not still calling Rutland a county are we Mick?

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The viaduct required about 30 million bricks, most of which were fired onsite.

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I did query that myself but it appears that it is one of those "We think it is and we live here, so there" jobs. So for the purposes of this hunt, yes we are!! :-D :-D

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Rutland, for 50% of the time, is the smallest county in the UK. It shares the honour with the Isle of Wight.
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