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No 90 (Signals) Group - July 1949


[Central Signals Establishment | 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
Communication Development Section RAF Ruislip Station in Maintenance Command
RAF Station Watton    
Central Signals Establishment RAF Watton  
RAF Station Shepherd's Grove   Satellite of Watton

Northern Signals Area

HQ - RAF Sutton Bridge

Unit Location/Address Notes
M/F D/F Station Acklington, Northumberland  
Bard Hill AMES (C & M) Salthouse, Holt, Norfolk  
Barkway AMES Royston Hertfordshire  
Bawdsey AMES Suffolk  
M/F D/F Station Belfast, Northern Ireland  
Bempton AMES (C & M) Grange Farm, Bempton East Yorkshire  
Benacre AMES (C & M) Wrentham, Lowestoft, Suffolk  
M/F D/F Station Bircham Newton, Norfolk  
Clee Hill AMES Ludlow, Shropshire  
Daventry AMES Northamptonshire  
Dimlington AMES (C & M) Hull  
Great Bromley AMES (C & M) Colchester  
Happisburgh AMES (C & M) Norwich  
Hopton AMES (C & M) Great Yarmouth  
Humberston AMES  (C & M) Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire  
D/F Station Lands End  
M/F D/F Station Leuchars, Fife  
M/F D/F  Station Sealand, Cheshire  
Skendleby AMES (C & M) 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  
Trimmingham AMES (C & M) 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 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
 
RAF Station Chicksands Shefford, Bedfordshire  
Air Ministry Monitoring Centre RAF Chicksands  
W/T Station Dagnall  
Meteorological Centre Dunstable  
Gloucester Terminal Signals Office RAF Gloucester  
W/T Station Greatworth  
South West Signals Centre Hawthorne  
RAF Signals Office London (Kingsway)  
European Signals Centre Shefford, Bedfordshire  
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  
Boniface Down AMES (C & M) Ventnor, Isle of Wight  
Bullbarrow Hill AMES Dorset  
Canewdon AMES Rochford, Essex  
Fairlight AMES (C & M) Hastings  
Folly AMES    
Gibbett Hill AMES Hindhead  
Hawkshill Down AMES (C & M) Walmer  
M/F D/F Station Lympne  
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 (C & M) Dover  
Sennen AMES Cornwall  
Sharpitor AMES Yelverton, Devon  
Swingate AMES Dover  
The Verne AMES (C & M) Portland, Dorset  
South West Gee Chain Trerew, Newquay  
Truleigh Hill AMES Shoreham, Sussex  
Ventnor AMES (C & M) Isle of Wight  
Westcliff AMES (C & M) Portland, Dorset  
West Prawle AMES Devon  
Worth Matravers AMES Swanage  

Source - SD161 (106th Edition) - July 1949

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

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