Archive for July, 2007

Danby Beacon Radar Station

From 1939 to 1954 this piece of moor played a key role in World War 2.

This site detected and led to the shooting down of the first enemy aircraft to fall on England on 3rd February 1940, a Heinkel 111which later crashed at Bannial Flatt Farm near Whitby.

Danby Beacon Radar Station Danby Beacon Radar Station Danby Beacon Radar Station Plaque

This website covers the layout of the site in a lot more details

Hunters Sty Bridge Westerdale

Grinkle Mine and Ridge Lane Tunnel

New Bank Drift, Eston

Errington Woods, Smallpox Hospital

Hutton Gate Station

Sandsend Tunnel

Yearby Icehouse

Port Mulgrave machinery

Grinkle Mine Sirocco Fanhouse

Boulby Sound Mirror

Roxby Hall

Saltburn Viaduct

St Hildas Well