Krepostnoi
Increasingly disenchanted
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Applecross is a magical place - it's a minor coincidence you should mention it: just earlier this very day I was genuinely dreaming of going back there. Somewhere near there is an old RAF station - a 1940s radar base or something, or maybe a sonar listening post (was that even a thing? And if so, wouldn't it be more up the navy's, um, street?) - with a nice information board. I was struck by the recollections of a serviceman from Halifax (bear in mind that at the time I read it I was living in the Calder Valley) who had been stationed there during the war, commenting on the spooky atmosphere. I especially recall the detail that his NCOs - tough, no-nonsense Glaswegians, as he described them - would not readily go on-site at night.Pretty sure I've been to that first one, the one near Lake Vyrnwy. That bend in the road looks extremely familiar. I really want to visit the one in Applecross now!
I haven't been able to identify the exact site since* - you reach it by taking the road north round the coast from Applecross, rather than going back over the pass. Memory vaguely suggests it might have been co-located with a lighthouse (which was probably one of Robert Louis Stevenson's dad's - that's my other abiding trivia fact from the journey). I'd love for further illumination, if anyone can oblige?
* should I be ashamed to admit that I have made the attempt a few times, courtesy of Google Earth? ETA - God, I'm slow on the uptake -is this a transdimensional radar station to add to the gas stations of that ilk?
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