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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 35 NE 75 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Sandwich Signal Station |
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Summary
Possible site of the former Sandwich wireless telegraph signal station.
| Grid Reference: | TR 3511 5869 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR35NE |
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| Parish: | SANDWICH, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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The possible site of Sandwich wireless telegraph station located from NGR 35106 58699. Although there is no visible evidence the former signal station is located on a golf course and the undeveloped landscape means that there is potential for survival of concrete platforms below ground. An Admiralty Order (ADM137/4680) confirms the use of wireless equipped aircraft in a spotting capacity for coastal gun batteries and identifies Sandwich as one of the ground receiving stations.
Records in the Marconi Archives in the Bodleian Library in Oxford (MS 337) includes plans and elevations of the Sandwich wireless station. The plans evidence that there was an Engine House, Operators Hut and a crew quarters hut which was proposed but not constructed (MS 339). The block is weather boarded with four windows, a single door and ventilator in each gable end. Six bunks are shown in a separate ‘Sleeping Room’, which also has a ‘Wash Place’. A lobby provides access to the ‘Mess Room’ with a range, larder, table and flap table. In the ‘Officers Room’ is a store, bunk, stove and table. (1)
<1> Oxford Archaeological South, 2016, First World War Wireless Stations in England. (Bibliographic reference). SKE31551.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1> | Bibliographic reference: Oxford Archaeological South. 2016. First World War Wireless Stations in England.. |
