Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
No 90 (Signals) Group - December 1950
[Central Signals Area | Southern Signals Area | Inactive Stations]
HQ - Medmenham, Marlow, Buckinghamshire (Directly responsible to the Air Ministry)
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Station Cheadle
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Stoke on Trent
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Functionally controlled by AM (DD of S (B))
|
Radio Engineering Unit | RAF Henlow | Station in TTC |
Central Signals Establishment | RAF Watton |
HQ - Bletchley
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
North-West Signals Centre | RAF Blackbrook | |
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 |
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 | Administered by |
Castle Rock | CH | Radio Engineering Unit |
Danby Beacon | CH | Radio Engineering Unit |
Douglas Wood | CH | Radio Engineering Unit |
Drone Hill | CH | Radio Engineering Unit |
Drytree | CH | RNA Wing |
Folly | CH | RNA Wing |
Haycastle Cross | CH | RNA Wing |
Netherbutton | CH | Radio Engineering Unit |
Ripperstone | GCI | RNA Wing |
Sango | CH | Radio Engineering Unit |
School Hill | CH | Radio Engineering Unit |
Sennen | CH | RNA Wing |
Staxton Wold | CH | Radio Engineering Unit |
Trelanvean | CH | RNA Wing |
Treleaver | GCI/CEW and/or CHEL | RNA Wing |
Trerew | CH | RNA Wing |
Trewan Sands | GCI | Radio Engineering Unit |
West Prawle | CH | RNA Wing |
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 (123rd Edition) - December 1950
[Central Signals Area | Southern Signals Area | Inactive Stations]
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