A History of RAF Saxa Vord
Friday, 5 February 2010
Presentations to Civilians Part 2
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This is a follow-up to the piece I published on 8 December 2009 . If further material becomes available there may well be a Part 3. ...
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
AOC's Inspection 1968 (amended 21 Oct 2010)
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Every year RAF stations were subjected to an Inspection by the Air Officer Commanding (in Saxa’s case that would be AOC 11 Group or one of...
Saturday, 30 January 2010
SHE -Setters Hill Estate
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For the first 10 years of RAF Saxa Vord there were no official Married Quarters for anyone not of senior rank. The average officer, NCO or...
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Power to the People (amended 11 Jan 18)
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RAF Personnel, posted to Unst when the camp opened in 1957, were entering a different world. Most of them would have come from towns and ci...
Monday, 25 January 2010
If God had not made the Island of Unst then the MOD would have had to invent it.
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The title of this section is the first sentence of a large article in the Scottish Daily Express in October 1969. There is no doubt that th...
Sunday, 24 January 2010
Transmitter/Receiver Sites at Closure
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Once again I'm grateful to John McMeechan for the use of these photos, taken of the Tx/RX sites in May 2006. (Left click on photos to en...
Top Site after Closure
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The radars have gone, though from a distance little has altered. There are no servicemen on site but civilian contractors visit to maintain...
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