Talk:Bawdsey Manor

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Bloodhound site at Bawdsey, Suffolk
Once years ago, either in the late 70s or around 1990, I was going for a hike along the Suffolk coast starting at Bawdsey after crossing on the passenger ferry from Felixstowe Ferry. I climbed through one of the holes in the badly-maintained fence and walked along the beach. I was rather surprised to see an RAF person in full uniform walk onto the beach and carefully watch me as I walked past on the shoreline. That must have been when the Bloodhound missiles were in place and active, although I knew nothing about them or their existence at all. Years later I gingerly peered over anti-blast earth banks down into the large retangular below-ground-level site. The missiles were no longer there, but all the other parafenialia (sp?) was. Don't know if thats still there. I suppose if I had done that while they were there I would have been arrested at gun point. The missile site is somewhat to the north of the manor, and next to the beach (but hidden behind earth banks). Nearby at Bawdsey was and probably still is an underground military complex, although no longer used. Bawdsey was also connected with the development of radar, and several Napoleonic Martello towers are nearby. Other military history a few miles north and south as well. 80.0.102.191 (talk) 22:49, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Alexanders College
The Bawdsey Manor Estate has, since 1993, been the home of Alexanders College, an independent co-educational boarding school. The Manor provides some facilities, for dining, school assemblies and plays, while adjacent buildings provide classrooms, laboratories, sports facilities and residential accommodation. On the Bawdsey Manor page at present, it mentions that the manor is used for "courses", but it would improve the page to mention that these are provided by an Ofsted- and British-council inspected school that teaches the National Curriculum of England and Wales. There is more information available at the school website. Psigrist (talk) 10:33, 30 January 2015 (UTC)