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No 90 (Signals) Group - May 1948


[Central Signals Establishment | Central Development Unit | Northern Signals Area | Central Signals Area | Southern Signals Area]

HQ - 'Danesfield Court', Medmenham, Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Unit Location/Address Notes
Signals Development Unit RAF Henlow Station in TTC
No 1 Chrystal Reprocessing Unit RAF Henlow Station in TTC
No 1 Radio Equipment Calibration Centre RAF Henlow Station in TTC
Detachment of POW Camp, West Drayton RAF Iver  
Communication Development Section RAF Ruislip Station in Maintenance Command
RAF Station Thame    
C & M Party RAF Thame  
RAF Station Watton    
Central Signals Establishment RAF Watton  
Radio Teleprinter School RAF Watton  
Overseas Packing Unit RAF West Drayton Station in TTC
POW Camp RAF West Drayton Station in TTC

 

Northern Signals Area

HQ - RAF Sutton Bridge

Unit Location/Address Notes
M/F D/F Station Acklington, Northumberland  
Bard Hill AMES Salthouse, Holt, Norfolk  
Barkway AMES Royston Hertfordshire  
Bawdsey AMES Suffolk  
M/F D/F Station Belfast, Northern Ireland  
Bempton AMES Grange Farm, Bempton East Yorkshire  
Benacre AMES (C & M) Wrentham, Lowestoft, Suffolk  
M/F D/F Station Bircham Newton, Norfolk  
RAF Station Blackbrook Haydock, Lancashire  
North-West Signals Centre RAF Blackbrook  
RAF Station Cheadle
  • No 5 D/F Station
  • No 8 D/F Station
  • No 3 D/F Station
  • No 2 D/F Station
  • No 4 D/F Station
Stoke on Trent
  • Highbridge
  • Marston Montgomery
  • Mere Branston
  • Montrose
  • Sutton Valence
 
Clee Hill AMES Ludlow, Shropshire  
Daventry AMES Northamptonshire  
Dimlington AMES Hull  
Great Bromley AMES (C & M) Colchester  
Happisburgh AMES Norwich  
Hopton AMES Great Yarmouth  
Humberston AMES Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire  
D/F Station Lands End  
Langtoft AMES Peterborough  
M/F D/F Station Leuchars, Fife  
Neatishead AMES Wrexham, Norfolk  
Patrington AMES Hull, East Yorkshire  
M/F D/F  Station Sealand, Cheshire  
Skendleby AMES Spilsby, Lincolnshire  
Stenigot AMES Louth, Lincolnshire  

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Stoke Holy Cross, Swainsthorpe, Norwich  
M/F D/F Station Stornoway, Isle of Lewis  
M/F D/F Station Sumburgh, Shetland  
RAF Station Sutton Bridge    
M/F D/F Station Talbenny, Pembrokeshire  
C & M Party Tealing  
Trimley Heath AMES Suffolk  
Trimmingham AMES Norfolk  
West Beckham AMES Holt, Norfolk  
M/F D/F Station Wick, Caithness  
Winterton AMES (C & M) Great Yarmouth, Norfolk  

 

Central Signals Area

HQ - Bletchley

Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Chicksands Shefford, Bedfordshire  
European Signals Centre RAF Chicksands  
Air Ministry Monitoring Centre RAF Chicksands  
W/T Station Dagnall  
Meteorological Centre Dunstable  
W/T Station Greatworth  
RAF Signals Office London (Kingsway)  
RAF Central Signals Centre RAF Stanbridge  
W/T Station Stoke Hammond  
W/T Station Weyhill  

Southern Signals Area

HQ - RAF Welford

Unit Location/Address Notes
M/F D/F Station Andover  
C & M Party Bodmin  
Boniface Down AMES Ventnor, Isle of Wight  
Bullbarrow Hill AMES Dorset  
Canewdon AMES Rochford, Essex  
Fairlight AMES Hastings  
Folly AMES    
Gibbett Hill AMES Hindhead  
Gloucester Terminal Signals Office RAF Gloucester  
Hawkshill Down AMES (C & M) Walmer  
South West Signals Centre Hawthorne  
Kidbrooke AMES London  
M/F D/F Station Lympne  
North Foreland AMES Broadstairs, Kent  
Pevensey AMES (C & M) Sussex  
M/F D/F Station Plympton  
Poling AMES (C & M) Sussex  
Ringstead AMES Dorset  
Rye AMES (C & M) Isle of Wight  
M/F D/F Station St Buryan  
St Margarets Bay AMES Dover  
Sandwich AMES Kent  
Sennen AMES Cornwall  
Sharpitor AMES Yelverton, Devon  
Sopley AMES Christchurch, Hampshire  
Swingate AMES Dover  
M/F D/F Station Tangmere  
The Verne AMES Portland, Dorset  
South West Gee Chain Trerew, Newquay  
Truleigh Hill AMES Shoreham, Sussex  
Ventnor AMES Isle of Wight  
Wartling AMES Pevensey  
Westcliff AMES Portland, Dorset  
West Prawle AMES Devon  
Worth Matravers AMES Swanage  

Source - SD161 (92nd Edition) - May 1948


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