Alnwick Instation

The site is north of Alnwick in Northumberland not far from the old A1 main road close to the medieval tower at Heiferlaw. It is west of the tower inside the remains of a stone/iron age earth work, surrounded by large trees. The Zero Station is almost at the end of the Wooler to Alnwick pillbox stopline.

The interior has been white washed and there are several shelves for the wireless equipment. There are two smaller rooms at either end of the Station and one larger central room. Inside, there are still some pipes with holes cut in them, these were used to collect messages from. The escape tunnel is a long concrete pipe that heads away to the north of the site. At the end of the tunnel there is what looks more like the normal Auxiliary OB pipe entrance. It has a piece of broken drain cover over it. One of the trees close to the Station has a groove in the bark where the coax cable was run and hidden for the aerial. Tim Wray adds, "Heiferlaw Bank Station in Northumberland - this was seen in use during the Wartime by members of the Doxford Patrol, including Mr G Hedley Dixon. Apparently the men seen going below ground wore insignia bearing the numbers '490'"

Janet Purves-Smith, from 1943, was billeted in a private house in Alnwick on arrival and later moved with the Scout section and the other station operators to Doxford Hall north of Alnwick.

The site is now sealed.