These early pictures were kindly sent by David Hopcroft.

Humber Radio Trusthorpe December 1927.

Charlie Anderson surveying the flooded Operating Room in 1953 .

Operator Charlie Anderson taken in 1936
He later became Officer In Charge

The Main Transmitter 1927

R/T Transmitter
The first filled to Coastal Stations

The Main Operating Position

These first nine pictures below of the buildings and masts were taken on 20th May 2001 almost a year after closure.
At this time the land and buildings were up for sale.

The first nine pictures are all © Robert Maskill G4PYR and should not be used elsewhere without permission.

The Humber Radio Station sign

Main station building taken from the road

The masts at Humber Radio

Station buildings

View of one of the masts

Station building

The station from across the main road to Mablethorpe

Station buildings and masts

View of the station from the sea wall

The following pictures are © David Hopcroft and should not be used elsewhere without permission.

The old operating room taken in the late 1970's

Computerisation taking control Top are the processors and operating position below

View of the old transmitters

View of the old transmitters

The lowering of one of the antenna masts

Shot of the Ops room taken in the early 1980's

Humber Radio Site October 2006 , boarded up and awaiting redevelopment.
© David Hopcroft

The Ops Room
1st April 1952

The Ops Room
April 1969

This sign dates from opening in 1927 and was superceeded by the 'big yellow thing' mid '80's

The Single Frequency Ajax Transmitters feeding the filter which allowed all three transmitter to use a wideband aerial.

What replaced the 'Humans' The computer controllers.

The operating room in 1994

Click HERE to download (In PDF format) the Humber Radio story by David Hopcroft the last manager of the station,
my thanks to him for permission to reproduce the story on this website

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