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No 90 (Signals) Group - January 1953

[Central Signals Area | Radio Navigational Aids Wing | Inactive Stations]

HQ - Medmenham, Marlow, Buckinghamshire (Directly responsible to the Air Ministry)

 

Unit Location/Address Notes
No 351 Signals Unit Anstruther  
No 222 Signals Unit Bawburgh  
No 409 Signals Unit Buchan  
RAF Station Cheadle
  • No 399 Signals Unit
  • No 36 Signals Unit
  • No 772 Signals Unit
  • No 661 Signals Unit
  • No 219 Signals Unit
  • No 224 Signals Unit
 Stoke on Trent
  • Hammersley Hayes
  • Highbridge
  • Marston Montgomery
  • Mere Branston
  • Montrose
  • Sutton Valence

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  • Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))
  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
  • D/F Station
RAF Station Chigwell    
No 253 Signals Unit RAF Chigwell  
No 744 Signals Unit RAF Chigwell  
Radio Engineering Unit (Detachment) RAF Chigwell  
Ground Radar Calibration Unit RAF Chigwell  
No 4 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Chigwell  
No 891 Signals Unit Cold Hesledon  
No 993 Signals Unit Foreness  
No 1 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Grangemouth  
Radio Engineering Unit RAF Henlow Station in TTC
Radio Fitting Party, Hong Kong RAF Henlow  
Radio Fitting Party, Nairobi RAF Henlow  
No 1 Radio Equipment Calibration Centre RAF Henlow Functionally controlled by AM (DAIS)
Radio Standards Centre RAF Henlow Functionally controlled by AM (DAIS)
No 977 Signals Unit Inverbervie  
No 802 Signals Unit Kelvedon  
Special Signals Unit RAF Kidbrooke  
HQ, No 70 Wing RAF Medmenham  
Radio Instruction Unit RAF Medmenham Functionally controlled by AM (D Rad Eng)
RAF Station Norton    
No 3 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Norton  
No 2 Ground Radio Servicing Sqn RAF Pucklechurch Station in Home Command
No 495 Signals Unit Shipton  
Central Signals Establishment RAF Watton  
No 116 Sqn RAF Watton  
No 192 Sqn RAF Watton  
No 527 Sqn RAF Watton  
RAF Station Wythall    
No 591 Signals Unit RAF Wythall  
GCA Operators' School RAF Wyton Station in Bomber Command
GCA Sqn RAF Wyton Oxford

 

Central Signals Area

HQ - Bletchley

Unit Location/Address Notes
North-West Signals Centre RAF Blackbrook  
No 869 Signals Unit Bletchley  
No 81 Signals Unit RAF Chicksands  
No 124 Signals Unit RAF Chicksands GH
No 889 Signals Unit RAF Chicksands GH, functionally controlled by HQ Bomber Command
Meteorological Communications Centre Dunstable  
No 810 Signals Unit Edlesborough  
Gloucester Telecommunications Office Gloucester Station in Home Command
No 962 Signals Unit Greatworth  
South West Signals Centre Hawthorne  
RAF Signals Office London (Kingsway)  
RAF Central Signals Centre RAF Stanbridge Section of Technical Wing, RAF Bletchley
No 593 Signals Unit Stoke Hammond  
No 285 Signals Unit Weyhill  

 

Radio Navigational Aids Wing

HQ - RAF Wythall

Unit Location/Address Function
No 131 Signals Unit Andover M/F D/F Station
No 635 Signals Unit Barkway GEE Monitor
No 631 Signals Unit Belfast (Comber) M/F D/F Station
No 206 Signals Unit Bircham Newton M/F D/F Station
No 411 Signals Unit Bullbarrow Hill GEE Master
No 92 Signals Unit Clee Hill GEE Slave
No 699 Signals Unit Daventry GEE Master
No 561 Signals Unit Folly GEE Slave
No 796 Signals Unit Gibbett Hill GEE Slave
No 62 Signals Unit Leuchars M/F D/F Station
No 334 Signals Unit Lympne M/F D/F Station
No 288 Signals Unit Pendeen M/F D/F Station
No 480 Signals Unit Plympton M/F D/F Station
No 534 Signals Unit Ponteland M/F D/F Station
No 428 Signals Unit Sennen GEE Slave
No 899 Signals Unit Sharpitor GEE Master
No 4 Signals Unit Stenigot GEE Slave
No 214 Signals Unit Stornoway M/F D/F Station
No 233 Signals Unit Sumburgh M/F D/F Station
No 104 Signals Unit Talbenny, M/F D/F Station
No 564 Signals Unit Trerew GEE Monitor
No 894 Signals Unit Truleigh Hill GEE Slave
No 380 Signals Unit West Prawle GEE Slave
No 200 Signals Unit Wick M/F D/F Station
No 407 Signals Unit Worth Matravers GEE Slave & Monitor

 

Radar Stations being re-equipped

 
Unit Location/Address Function
No 858 Signals Unit Castle Rock CH
No 401 Signals Unit Netherbutton CH (C & M)
No 548 Signals Unit Ripperstone GCI
No 969 Signals Unit Sango CH (C & M)
No 502 Signals Unit Treleaver GCI/CEW and/or CHEL
No 437 Signals Unit Trewan Sands GCI

No 90 Group, Inactive Stations

 
Inactive Station Parent Station Status
Clett (Radar) HQ, No 90 Group S
Deopham Green Watton S
Fersfield Watton S
Loth (Radar) HQ, No 90 Group S
Shipdam Watton S
South Ronaldsay (Radar) HQ, No 90 Group S
Tannoch (Radar) HQ, No 90 Group S
Thorpe Abbots Watton S
Tibenham Watton R
Watness (Radar) HQ, No 90 Group S
Whalehead (Radar) HQ, No 90 Group S

S = Surplus to long-term requirements

R = Retention is currently required

Source - SD161 (148th Edition) - January 1953

[Central Signals Area | Radio Navigational Aids Wing | Inactive Stations]

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