War Stories - RAF Stenigot Explore...

After finding an old hard drive while I was looking for something else, I came across some pictures that I had thought I'd lost for good, and even better, these were the raw files so I can reprocess and share to the hive community.

Back in 2015, myself and a couple of friends decided to take a trip into deepest darkest Lincolnshire to photograph what's left of the tropospheric dishes at RAF Stenigot, they were in the middle of no where, thankfully my mate who was driving knew where they were so we weren't hunting around all day for them.

When we got there we could see them from the road but we had to walk down a farm track to get to where the remains of the dishes were, if I remember right it wasn't too bad a walk, but the views were lovely in rural Lincolnshire, one of my favourite counties.

As we got to the location, we were presented with a sign stating "Danger Bull In Field", I thought that we'd come all this way and not being able to go up to them would be a wasted trip, so I checked out the area, looking around had a good look and noticed sheep in the field, but no signs of a bull, so I traversed the gate and went in, my mates were a bit scared to do so until I took the lead lol.

One thing we did have to watch out for though was the infinite amounts of sheep shit (or meadow muffins as I call them), around the dishes.

We were in, one thing the photos don't do justice was the actual size of these dishes, you could walk on them but it made a right noise, and you couldn't get to the top of them due to the incline, so about have way up was as far as you could get.

We'd not been the first people there and to say the dishes were in the middle of no where there had been plenty of human activity.

It was sad to see the dishes in this condition, these were once the forefront of communication technology but was left to scrap, they are tropospheric scatter dishes that once formed part of the Ace High communications network, used from the 1950's to pass military messages. Standing on a former radar station in the Lincolnshire Wolds near Donington On Bain.

I'm so glad that we got to photograph these, part of our military history that has now gone forever, with what I have been told is that the dishes have now been completely scrapped and are no longer there, which is such a shame as I would have loved to have gone back to reshoot them. So these dishes now only exist in pictures.

I really hope you like this explore, it was a great day.

All the best :-)