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No 90 (Signals) Group - October 1950


[Central Signals Area | Southern Signals Area | Inactive Stations]

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

 

Unit Location/Address Notes
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
Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))
  • Somerset
  • Derby
  • Lincolnshire
  • Kinnaber, Montrose
  • Maidstone, Kent
Radio Engineering Unit RAF Henlow Station in TTC
RAF Station Watton    
Central Signals Establishment RAF Watton  

 

Central Signals Area

HQ - Bletchley

Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Blackbrook Haydock, Lancashire  
North-West Signals Centre RAF Blackbrook  
RAF Station Chicksands Shefford, Bedfordshire  
Standby Signals Centre RAF Chicksands  
W/T Station Dagnall  
Meteorological Communications Centre Dunstable  
W/T Station Greatworth  
South West Signals Centre Hawthorne  
RAF Signals Office London (Kingsway)  
RAF Central Signals Centre RAF Stanbridge  
W/T Station Stoke Hammond  
W/T Station (C & M) Weyhill  

 

Southern Signals Area

HQ - RAF Welford

Unit Location/Address Notes
M/F D/F Station Acklington Northumberland
M/F D/F Station Andover Hampshire
GEE Monitor Barkway  
M/F D/F Station Belfast  
M/F D/F Station Bircham Newton Norfolk
GEE Master Bullbarrow Hill Dorset
GEE Slave Clee Hill Ludlow, Shropshire
GEE Master Daventry Northamptonshire
GEE Slave Folly Lincolnshire
GEE Slave Gibbett Hill Hindhead
GH Station High Street, Darsham East Sussex
M/F D/F Station Leuchars Fife
M/F D/F Station Lympne Kent
M/F D/F Station Pendeen Cornwall
M/F D/F Station Plympton Devon
M/F D/F Station Sealand Chester
GEE Slave Sennen Penzance, Cornwall
GEE Master Sharpitor Yelverton, Devon
GEE Slave Stenigot Louth, Lincolnshire
M/F D/F Station Stornoway Isle of Lewis
M/F D/F Station Sumburgh Shetland
GH Station Swingate Dover, Kent
M/F D/F Station Talbenny, Pembrokeshire
GEE Monitor Trerew Newquay
GEE Slave Truleigh Hill Shoreham, Sussex
GEE Slave West Prawle Devon
M/F D/F Station Wick Caithness
GEE Slave & Monitor Worth Matravers Swanage

 

Radar Stations being re-equipped

 
Location Function Remarks
Castle Rock CH  
Danby Beacon CH  
Douglas Wood CH  
Drone Hill CH  
Drytree CH  
Folly CH  
Haycastle Cross CH  
Hill Head CH  
Nether Button CH  
Ripperstone GCI  
Sango CH  
Sennen CH  
Staxton Wold CH  
Trelanvean CH  
Treleaver GCI/CEW and/or CHEL  
Trerew CH  
Trewan Sands GCI  
West Prawle CH  
Wrafton GCI  

 

No 90 Group, Inactive Stations

 
Inactive Station Parent Station Status
Deopham Green Watton S
Fersfield Watton S
Shipdam Watton S
Thorpe Abbots Watton S
Tibenham Watton R

S = Surplus to long-term requirements

R = Retention is currently required

Source - SD161 (121st Edition) - October 1950

[Central Signals Area | Southern Signals Area | Inactive Stations]

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