| Name: | Floodlight (destroyed), Chapel Lane, Little Baddow |
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| SMR Number: | 20889 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TL 767 073 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL70NE |
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| Parish: | LITTLE BADDOW, CHELMSFORD, ESSEX |
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Summary
Floodlight
Full description
An aerial photograph taken in May 1946 shows an experimental “floodlight” standing in the corner of a meadow to the E of Chapel Lane. Its generator building can be seen a few yards away to the SE. <1>
Nothing of it now survives although the meadow appears much as it did in 1946.
<1> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1496-4007, May 1946 (AP). SEX65380.
Monument Types
- FLOODLIGHT (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Events
- Visit by Fred Nash - Feb 2005 (Ref: Nash CHL Feb 2005)
Protected Status
- Historic Environment Character Zone: Chelmsford 5.8
- Historic Environment Character Area: Chelmsford 5
Sources and further reading
| <1> | AP: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1496-4007. May 1946. |
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