Radar Recollections - A Bournemouth University / CHiDE / HLF project
 
 
 

TRE Worth... Then and now PART TWO

There may be little remaining of the TRE site at Worth Matravers but the importance of the work done here in helping to turn the tide of battle in favour of the allies has not altogether been forgotten. There is a memorial in the shape of a radar dish overlooking the sea at St Alban's Head and very near to 'D' site…
Radar Research memorial
Radar Memorial

" THIS MEMORIAL COMMEMORATES
THE RADAR RESEARCH
CARRIED OUT AT
WORTH MATRAVERS
FROM 1940 - 1942
WHICH WAS CRUCIAL TO
THE WINNING OF THE WAR
AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN
TELECOMMUNICATIONS"

 The radar memorial at St Alohelms Head
T.Bowen & H.Brown
The 'Square & Compass'
Taffey Bowen & Hanbury Brown enjoy a lunchtime pint at the 'Square & Compass' pub, summer 1940. The 'Square & Compass' pub today
   

Then as now, the local 'pub' plays an important role in the life of the village….

The 'Square and Compass' was affectionately known as the 'Sine and Cosine' by the men at TRE. This was an obvious allusion to the fact that radar physics is deeply connected to geometry.
   
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