During the Second World War Douglas Fisher FRPS was a young photographic technician. He worked at TRE Worth Matravers and at Malvern, alongside the 'boffins' who were responsible for the major technical breakthroughs which resulted in the effective deployment of radar technology which contributed so significantly to the eventual outcome of the War.

We have been generously sponsored to digitise a collection of some 8000 negatives dating from this period, many of which were taken by Douglas Fisher, thereby making them available for publication and research.

In recent months we have been able to publish examples of the material through CHiDE's publication, Transmission Lines, and have been rewarded with some fascinating reactions and recollections from those who were engaged on the work and in the places depicted.

We are currently working with a selection of the images on a pilot study to demonstrate the added value of images in the process of eliciting technical oral histories with a small sample of personnel who were employed at TRE Worth Matravers in 1940 - 42. We shall be creating a video recording of the experiment which we hope will support future funding applications to enable a larger scale project to be conducted.