History

‘Bawdsey Research Station’ Commemorations 2010

In recognition of the historic events that took place in 1935 and 1940 which played a significant part in Britains war effort, commemorative events will take place at Bawdsey Manor during 2010.

During its time as a radar research centre and as an operational station for Chain Home radar, it was known by the acronym BRS – Bawdsey Research Station. It was here that Sir Robert Watson-Watt and his colleagues turned the ideas on which the well known experiment at Daventry (26 Feb 1935) was based into a full operational system, without which the outcome of the Battle of Britain would almost certainly have been quite different.
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The Internet is 20 this month

In March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee handed a document to his supervisor entitled Information Management: a Proposal. The paper described what would, the following year, become the world wide web. Read More...