Filed under: Dispatches, Elizabeth Masterton, Gazetteer, Happidrome 4 | Tags: buildings, decay, Drytree, Elizabeth Masterton, heritage, radar, research, writing, WW2
Elizabeth Masterton has been working with researcher Benjamin Oldcorn to unravel the mysteries of some of the derelict buildings on the RAF Drytree site. The RAF Dry Tree/Goonhilly NNR Building Identification Project report was commissioned by Natural England to form the basis of new interpretative material for visitors to the site. The report includes the buildings earmarked for inclusion on a new walking route around the site, and doesn’t cover everything, but it’s a good start. Please do get in touch if you have any information regarding RAF Drytree or identifications for any of the buildings we’ve missed.
Photos by Benjamin Oldcorn.
Filed under: Gazetteer, Rupert White | Tags: buildings, bunkers, computing, dark, inside, Mapping, tests
Rupert White has created an interactive 3D model of the interior of the R-Block, entitled ‘Digidrome’ (stills shown above). You can navigate around the building via the following link:
http://www.rupertwhite.co.uk/virtual_worlds/Digidrome.html
(requires download of a free web player)
Rupert has suggested that aspects of ‘Digidrome’ could evolve or adapt over time…other objects could be introduced into it in response to suggestions by artists or visitors. Theoretically any text, 2D image file or 3D object or could be introduced. If you any ideas of what you’d like to manifest in the building then contact us.
Map of all the chain home stations, the first radar stations (pre rotating radar beams). They worked together creating a chain of interconnecting beams which covered the whole British coast line. Dry Tree is marked merits two separate labels.
Filed under: Gazetteer | Tags: arthur, buildings, goonhilly, heritage, satellite
These images are taken from the BT Archive and show the demolition of the RAF Drytree radar buildings, and the construction of Aerial No.1, “Arthur”. The construction of Arthur was undertaken by the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company in December 1961. The building being destroyed is possibly a powerhouse for the radar base. All images are copyright British Telecommunications.
Filed under: Gazetteer
350ft steel transmitter tower (East Coast variant) and 240ft wooden receiver tower (drawings sourced from ‘Twentieth Century Fortifications in England:Volume VII I Acoustics and Radar’ by Colin Dobinson, Council for British Archaeology, 2000)ant
Filed under: Elizabeth Masterton, Gazetteer | Tags: buildings, Electricity, ephemera, heritage
Copyright John Hinde (UK) Ltd.
Copyright Margaret Thomson
Copyright Bob Croxford
Filed under: Caitlin Desilvey, Gazetteer | Tags: botany, buildings, decay, growth, ivy
Filed under: Caitlin Desilvey, Gazetteer | Tags: botany, buildings, decay, growth, moss
Corrugated moss inside Tiny Bunker 1 at Drytree
