I’ve been asked to enquire if anyone remembers a transmitter site near Uxbridge in the 1950s and 1960s. The gentleman says he always called it Greenford Green. He describes it thus: Greenford Green* was located on a small hill (not far from Northolt Airfield) and had a large array of ariels suspended between several high …
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Martin used to arrange regular reunions, I haven’t heard from anyone in ages but wondered if there was any interest in a reunion in 2023? The Inn is open, I have a good rapport with the park owners, I’d be happy to see what can be arranged if there is any interest email admin @ …
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As you might expect the costs of running the site have increased again and I have funded this from my own pocket with some support form friends and well wishers along with the good folk at Greatworth Park. I can no longer keep this site running in its current form and with its current costs …
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We made it onto twitter. If anyone is still out there and fancies following the updates the twitter handle is @RAFGreatworth
There has been a long standing issue with verification emails and password reset emails which it has taken me some time to track down but I believe that I have now resolved the issues. I have disabled email verification. I get a lot of unverifiable requests and requests from unusual email addresses and it has …
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If you happen to be reading this and are one of the family I met by the old ruined shack whilst I filming on Tuesday 31st would you please get in touch. You can use the admin address from the website to reach me.
When Philip did the earlier aerial videos for us the one bit he didn’t really get was the route down to the old barracks. I now own my own little drone having gotten the bug whilst trying to get the earlier footage so yesterday I was able to get a small flight from the edge …
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I developed this site at very short notice and tried to keep all the functionality that Martin had built into his original site over the years. For expediency I chose to use what I considered the most simple and straightforward options at the time and this came at a cost. In 2018 I paid this …
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I thought some of the members might be interested to see how HS2 will impact the old site. The image below is a section of the plans around that area, I cant put the whole plan up its too big for me to scan, but this excerpt shows the way the line, marked as four …
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I promised sometime ago that I would bring you some amazing new images of the old site as it is today and here they are. There are quite a few, choose to run through a slideshow or look at them as thumbnails and open them up individually. Most of all I hope you enjoy them. …
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