| Based high on the Lincolnshire wolds, aproximately 5 miles South-East of Louth, RAF Stenigot opened in 1940 as a WW2 Radar station.
The site operated for this purpose until 1959, before being redeveloped as a Nato communications relay station. The site finally closed around 1991 after advances in modern technology made the facility redundant. The original site contained 4 giant tranmitter masts, and 2 generator/receiving blocks. 3 of the masts were dismantled and replaced with large parabolic dishes when the site was redeveloped in 1959. The newer buildings built during this time were buldozed and the dishes uprooted in 1996 when the site was finally disposed of, however many of the older structures still remain. The original radar mast has been retained by the MOD, standing in a fenced off compound, and is used for training purposes by the aerial erector school at RAF Digby. Apparently its possible to see Lincoln Cathedral, the North Sea and even the Humber bridge from the top of the tower, which stands 110m (365ft) high! A public footpath runs around the back of the existing compound and down to what's left of the old communications site, which allowed me access to take these photos. |
Stenigots last surviving radar mast 535x385 |
Close up of the mast 400x535 |
Former RAF houses by main entrance, now in private ownership. Note the old pillbox to the left of the photo. 535x400 |
Main entrance, with the old guardroom to the right 535x400 |
Generator room/receiver block with water tower to the left 535x400 |
Entrance to generator room/receiver block 535x400 |
Remaining receiving equipment 535x400 |
Various old electrical junction boxes 535x400 |
Derelict room 535x400 |
Derelict room, with my collegue Jay in background 535x400 |
Round the back of the generator/receiver building 535x400 |
Old water tower 535x400 |
Underneath tower, judging by the drips I'd say this still has water in it 535x400 |
Pill box, with remnants of the old comminications site in background 535x400 |
Surviving pill box 535x400 |
interior of pill box, with wrecked electrical junction box 535x400 |
Uprooted parabolic dishes, with the old secondary generator/receiver block in background 535x400 |
Supports for one of the old towers, with the existing tower in background 535x400 |
Me stood in one of the dishes (blimey these are big) 535x400 |
Another shot of me, with the exisiting tower in the background 535x400 |
Entrance to the second generator/receiver block 535x400 |
View around the back of the secondary block 535x400 |
One of the rooms inside, mind the hole in the floor! 713x535 |
Another derelict room inside the secondary block 535x400 |
