Stenigot [Archive] - The Airfield Information Exchange

CDP

20-10-2008, 23:21

I suppose the most obvious place to start would be to find out when the dishes were decommissioned and taken down and work back from there? Is that too obvious? It is late and I'm a bit tired (my excuse!). Despite the number of times either Noel and myself have been in the area doing something aviation-related or I've been out that way doing something rallying-related, it's one site a few of us would love to visit. It'll happen one day.

It's a cracking oblique though and you don't see many. Nice one!

Chris

norwichpaul

21-10-2008, 08:13

Excellent shot

kebecker

26-10-2008, 16:58

Stenigot during the 80's

http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n330/kebecker2/Picture010.jpg

Ossington_2008

04-11-2008, 19:29

I've found the pack it should have been in. Taken in Mar 94.

derekfrost

09-12-2008, 14:26

They're still shown on maps.google but look as though they've been taken off their mounts and left on the ground.

Arcade Al

12-12-2008, 00:27

They're still shown on maps.google but look as though they've been taken off their mounts and left on the ground.

They have indeed. Just about the whole site has been flattened. :(
The Ace High array dishes were cut down years ago but are still lying on the ground (as far as I know) at the present time. There is also a surviving Chain Home receiver block and one mast.

Jerry has some pics of this place I think?

Subbrit links:
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/s ... index.html
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/s ... ndex1.html

kebecker

12-12-2008, 04:02

another 80's shot

http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n330/kebecker2/Picture017.jpg

Jerry

12-12-2008, 13:39

Flashearth link:

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.32702 ... =0&src=msl (http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.327028&lon=-0.116365&z=16.8&r=0&src=msl)

NJR

31-05-2009, 20:50

Some aerials of Stenjgot taken May 2009.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t145/ryan7480_bucket/Sun24thMay2009146.jpg

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t145/ryan7480_bucket/Sun24thMay2009156.jpg

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t145/ryan7480_bucket/Sun24thMay2009166.jpg

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t145/ryan7480_bucket/Sun24thMay2009172.jpg

NJR

PNK

31-05-2009, 21:11

Those old Sky dishes are difficult to get rid of.

Arcade Al

31-05-2009, 23:50

What are they up to there? Looks like they are making new mast bases!
Certainly some serious digging going on...

JCB

01-06-2009, 10:26

REF

01-06-2009, 10:56

What are the bunkers shown in the first and last photos??

Arcade Al

01-06-2009, 14:14

There is certainly some digging going on but it looks to me more like they are digging out and crushing the concrete from all the old mast foundations and buildings as part of a big clean-up the site.

Right yes that would make much more sense. There were originally 4 Chain Home TX masts of which only one remains.
Shame they seem so intent on obliterating what little is still extant.

Richard; the bunker next to the toppled Ace High dishes is the Chain Home receiver block,
the longer bunker is the CH transmitter block.
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/s ... ndex1.html (http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/stenigot/index1.html)

P Bellamy

02-06-2009, 00:25

Rough and ready Sketchup model plonked into Google Earth.:

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k227/ramc181/Stenig1.jpg

RX Block and four 350' masts at the far end, TX Block and four (very basic) 420' masts at the near end.
Stenigot had bases for four TX masts, but I don't know whether it was built to the reduced version with three, when that was found to be sufficient elsewhere.

All the best,
PB

Arcade Al

02-06-2009, 09:17

I had assumed that the 4th mast base had been dug up some time previously for the later buildings, Paul?

JCB

02-06-2009, 12:24

Paul: That is a stunning rendition of the Stenigot configuration.

P Bellamy

09-06-2009, 21:05

I had assumed that the 4th mast base had been dug up some time previously for the later buildings, Paul?

The mountings for the three missing transmitter masts are visible in the previous coverage in Google Earth.

All four receiver mast bases, or the sites of them, are just about visible in the current GE image.
The northern RX mast base is visible as a soil mark, the southern RX mast's footings are amongst the Ace High footings but can be identified by their size and alignment.

I'm working on a better TX mast model in Sketchup, but as all I have are the height and base width dimensions to go by it's very much "by eye". I have the drawings for the antenna array that hung between the masts, but I'm not going to that extent. :wink:
I tried adding that last year on my model of Vetnor and it was a nightmare.

Edited to add the updated model:

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k227/ramc181/Stenig2.jpg

All the best,
PB

PETERTHEEATER

10-06-2009, 06:55

If only I had the time and capabilty to do that modelling!

I continue to admire your efforts. Well done.

Richard Drew

10-06-2009, 07:46

http://www.atlantikwall.co.uk/atlantikwall/atlantikwall_picts/rings_radar/pics/21.jpg

Ringstead Bay Dorset also used the Tropospheric Scatter System things?

http://www.atlantikwall.co.uk/atlantikwall/atlantikwall_html/ring_radar_html/south_of_england.htm

Jerry

19-09-2009, 10:47

After a quick visit whilst working nearby, I stopped by Stenigot to get a few photos, many thanks to Brian for permission to walk the site.

The majority of the site has been flattened:

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc143/Gingie28/Steni/DSCF2527.jpg

The dishes and a transformer building:

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc143/Gingie28/Steni/DSCF2528.jpg

And the remaining tower:

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc143/Gingie28/Steni/DSCF2503.jpg

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc143/Gingie28/Steni/DSCF2530.jpg

Jerry

19-09-2009, 10:48

The dishes:

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc143/Gingie28/Steni/DSCF2526.jpg

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc143/Gingie28/Steni/DSCF2515.jpg

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc143/Gingie28/Steni/DSCF2517.jpg

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc143/Gingie28/Steni/DSCF2516.jpg

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc143/Gingie28/Steni/DSCF2514.jpg

REF

20-09-2009, 18:18

Shame to se it as it is. It is somewhere I'd still like to visit if I get the oppertunity.

I guess it won't be long before the dishes and bunker are demolished too.

Thanks for posting the pics.

PETERTHEEATER

21-09-2009, 09:35

The dishes will go for scrap but I bet the bits will have to be exported to a smelter in China!

Vespretta

08-12-2011, 23:10

Just to resurrect this old post, I was talking to a local today who tells me the dishes were bought from the MOD with the idea of using them as a sheep shelter (wonder if it was for the 1, 000+ sheep that were recently stolen there!) but by all accounts they are unmovable and the pikeys can't get them in their Transit vans so they have been left as they are due to lack of interest. There was said to have been plans recently to cut them up on site for disposal but permission for this was not granted. There was also talk of burying them...I don't know how much of this is true as it may just be local gossip but I do know the locals hate them and class them as a serious eyesore, personally I love the Stenigot dishes and hope they stay for many years!

Or did the Millennium Falcon crash in Lincolnshire! :lol:

Hawkeye001

08-12-2011, 23:22

Ive not heard all this Stephen but it doesnt surprise me in the least lol.

Carnaby

09-12-2011, 10:09

Stenigot was featured yesterday on 'The One Show' The Aerial Erectors' School took the presenter to the top of the mast. Impressive views

canberra

09-12-2011, 21:29

I dont know which trade in the RAF were the bigger drinkers the aerial erectors or the motor boat crews!

buccaneer66

09-12-2011, 21:32

I think may mate who was an aerial erector would claim that title mad sod only joined so he could climb those huge masts.

netcompsys

16-09-2012, 15:01

A photo of Stenigot's remaining CH tower, with the Belmont TV transmitter mast in the background on misty day early last year

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kevin

netcompsys

03-05-2013, 22:52

Some Photos while passing by this evening

Aces High dishes with remaining CH Transmitter tower behind
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Remaining CH Transmitter tower (water tower is on Anglian Water site)
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Remaining CH Transmitter tower
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Remaining CH Transmitter tower from below
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CH Transmitter Block
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Aces High dishes
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Water Tower
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Piquet Post
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Pillbox
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[click on the thumbnail for larger images]

kevin

Arcade Al

04-05-2013, 00:18

I seem to recall reading that the water tower that survives was not on the original site, and that there was another site water tower that is long demolished?

Will happily stand corrected though...

netcompsys

04-05-2013, 22:23

The comment you refer to is in a caption of a photo on subrit which includes the word "probably"and explains that this is based on the fact that this is immediately outside the current site fence.

However it is a large structure and it is difficult to see what this water tower might have been for other than to service the site in one of its incarnations.

Kevin