Posts added:
Wykeham, Yorkshire
Lockton, Yorkshire
Great Ayton, Yorkshire
More posts will be added soon.
More coming soon.
Jan
15
Jan
15
Re-designed!
After the site was brought down by hackers, i temporarilly put it back online, but it looked rubbish and many of the pages were corrput or invalid. I have now redesigned the site completly, and i hope you like it!
Sep
23
We are back!
After a short stint of being down – it seemed like the whole site was lost. But a lot of work and now the site is back, although it has had to be re-designed. There will be more content coming soon!
Aug
31
Bank Holiday ROC Post Open Days
On Sunday 28th August – Chop Gate Post had an Open Day. On Monday 29th August – Skipsea ROC Post also had an open day.
Obviously, i attended Chop Gate, but i also made an effort to go to Skipsea – it was nice to see someone elses post.
Speaking about Chop Gate – i would like to thank everyone that attended and donated – your donations were appreciated and have been spent on an official ROC standard for display on open days. If you attend next year then you will be able to see it!
Pictures of both events will be going up on the site shortly…
Aug
12
Chop Gate Open Day – August 28th
If you are visiting the post on this day – please park in the village hall car park. To get to the post, turn left out of the village hall, and walk up the main road past the pub and the school. Where another main road joins the main road on the left hand side, turn left. If you look to your right you will see a small chapel, and a track leading up the side. Follow the track and turn left. Walk past the sheds and you will see the post. The post will be clearly signposted on the day, but ya’know just in case.
The post is locked and alarmed when not in use and nothing of any value is left inside of the post when it is not set up.
Please contact us if you require more information .
Jul
02
Contact from former Group Officer Rick Sullivan
Dear Attack Warning Red,
When I became Group Officer in 1983, the training meetings used to take place on the ground floor of Alex Brotton’s house, he being a redoubtable Chief Observer and highly-respected member of the community, which I think was called ‘South View’. Amongst that crew of mostly farmers was his successor, Arnold Wood who had a place further up the valley, and another real character called George Garbutt who also farmed locally, was a well-known pillar of the community and ran a discotheque despite being in his sixties. A sad but in some way uplifting experience was attending the funerals of George and Alex and seeing the turnout of mourners which underlined the respect the community had for them both. A salute by an open grave may not be much but it came from my heart and twas for all who had the honour to know them.
I mentioned David Hugill earlier who lived in the cottage at the bottom of the public footpath that went up the hill and eventually led one to the Wainstones overlooking the area on both sides. It was a slight detour off this tree-shrouded path that took one to the monitoring post. I always found David to be a laid-back and cheery individual who probably had the words ‘Chop Gate’ running through his body as did so many of this tight-knit crew.
I also knew Des Brown, another NCO and forthright crew member, well as I lived within a short distance of his daughter in Guisborough when Des, by that time, was living in Great Ayton. Again, Des’s roots were in the village and he, like many of the others, was prominent in local sport and a player in the cricket and, I think I’m right in saying, football team as well and as befits a rural Yorkshire community!
As a new officer I found myself made welcome at their post meetings whenever I dropped in and with such a vast wealth of experience before me, I was able to tap in to much valuable knowledge and information. Being the fine people that they were, if I was going astray in my duties at any time I could also be sure of being given blunt and sage advice which I always reckoned I should ignore at my peril.
Yes, my memories of Chop Gate are very fond and it was a blow when we were stood down that meant I may never be a part of thatfine group of observers again nor would I see the view from the post that looked down Bilsdale. Hopefully I will at least manage the latter now.
Rick Sullivan
Former Obs. Lt. and Group Officer 55/60 Cluster
No 23 Group, Durham, R.O.C.
Jun
28
Chop Gate ROC Post Open Day
Sunday 28th August
10am till 4pm
Please keep a look out for more info.
Jun
08
ROC Post Air Raid Siren Video
Please Click Here to see more warning equipment used by the ROC!
The Siren at Chop Gate. Copyright Rob Eland.
Jun
08
Chop Gate Open Day 29th May – Success!
The Open Day at Chop Gate Post was another great success with over 80 people coming to look. Donations were enough to also purchase our own siren. Photo’s are in the restored posts section.
May
06
Brandsby Post
Brandsby Post has just been added to the restored posts database. Keep a look out for more restored posts!