EAW004789 ENGLAND (1947). The village and the marshes, Cliffe, from the south-west, 1947

Cliffe Co-op with function room above.

Methodist Church. Peggy Mussellwhite and Colin Whiffing married here on the 3rd April 1954.

Horse drawn harrow(?). This was part of Baldock's farm and the horse was either King or Daisy

Parker's Store

Faint vertical lines show the MUSA Antenna stretching across the marsh. Built in 1939, Cooling Radio Station was at the UK end of a point-to-point, shortwave signal beamed from Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The site of the station was carefully selected as the antenna, MUSA (Multiple Unit Steerable Antenna), upon which it depended to receive the incoming transmission, had to be: directly aligned with Lawrenceville; two miles long; comprised of an array of 16 individual rhombic antenna; have an area of three miles in front of the MUSA that would be free from radio interference. The 16 rhombic antenna were strung between 60ft high telegraph poles; each side was 315ft long with internal angles of 140 degrees. The signal from each antenna was sent to the station via a core coaxial cable sheathed in a watertight copper tube and buried in a central trench. See : English Heritage Research Department Report Series No 110-2010, ISSN 1749-8775, COOLING RADIO STATION, HOO PENINSULA, KENT - An Archaeological Investigation of a Short-Wave Receiving Station by Derwin Gregory and Sarah Newsome. See also image EAW052580