Of particular interest are the Treligga photos as the airfield is local to me. The quadrant "office" had another storey added to it post war (to view sea targets?) and the photo of the the 2 Spitfires (or are they Seafires?) and the Auster? parked outside the accomodation blocks/equipment sheds shows that the grass strips at Treligga were capable of being used by fighter aircraft.
I'm not 100% certain the QS is Treligga, although I'm tired and just off to bed so I may have got the orientation wrong. The two storey tower is a mystery but the height was not for sea ranges and more likely for viewing a two targets simultaneously. The ORS target would probably have a spotting point but not a quadrant as it was purely photographic. The R/P targets may have had quadrant measurements but where was the other one? Treligga started as only air to ground plus ELG. Bombing and R/P came later. Will have another think tomorrow
Great photo of a quadrant though.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
Was it Treligga that had a target painted on the rocks below the cliffs?
Nice pics, although the information provided doesn't quite tally up with the captions in some of the photos.
The aircraft behind the (I suspect) Seafires is a DH Hornet Moth.
I'm not 100% certain the QS is Treligga, although I'm tired and just off to bed so I may have got the orientation wrong. The two storey tower is a mystery but the height was not for sea ranges and more likely for viewing a two targets simultaneously. The ORS target would probably have a spotting point but not a quadrant as it was purely photographic. The R/P targets may have had quadrant measurements but where was the other one? Treligga started as only air to ground plus ELG. Bombing and R/P came later. Will have another think tomorrow
Was it Treligga that had a target painted on the rocks below the cliffs?
Nice pics, although the information provided doesn't quite tally up with the captions in some of the photos.
The aircraft behind the (I suspect) Seafires is a DH Hornet Moth.
Not aware of a painted target. Agree the info. doesn't quite tally with the captions and someone really needs to do some proof reading of some of the other entries.
Yes a DH Hornet Moth-missed the fact that it is a biplane. There is also the tail of a 4th aircraft in the background (another Hornet?)
The reason for the doubt on the quadrant was that it looked like sea behind it with waves hitting the rocks (the white at the bottom of the cliff). As all the Admiralty built quadrants were to the same overall design it may another St Merryn range. It all hinges on whether that was sea in the photo or not.
The 1990 photo shows the access to the top floor which I hadn't seen before.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
I visited this site a few days ago.
I believe it was a Royal Navy Radio Transmitter Station which www.vcefile.net/
was used to control the Western Approaches during WW2 and then stayed in service up until the 1960's.
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