Comments on: Hippisley Hut: Wireless interception at the outbreak of World War One

By: Alexandra Hippisley

Alexandra Hippisley — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 20:15:53 +0000

He is my great grandfather! So proud…..and he looks exactly like my youngest brother Christopher Hippisley.
Wished we could buy Hippisley Hut back into the family, and Ston Easto. park for that matter.
A R Hippisley

By: Mike Matthews

Mike Matthews — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 12:07:54 +0000

Great piece on Bayntun and many thanks for acknowledging my website. There are one or two little details that I didn’t know about which I’d like to add to my biog of Bayntun if that’s okay? I’d also like to add one of the old postcards showing the station at Hunstanton and would be grateful if you could clarify copyright with these. Perhaps you could email me.

By: orie1518

orie1518 — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:42:45 +0000

In reply to Robert Orth. Thanks for your comment, Robert. I have not come across your relative Petty Officer G. J. Brown RNVR in my research but did not conduct research to that level of depth. He sounds very interesting though! So what have you come across about him?

By: Robert Orth

Robert Orth — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 06:44:19 +0000

Fascinating story. I wonder if in your Hunstanton WW1 research you came across a Petty Officer G. J. Brown RNVR. As an employee of the GPO he spent WW1 at Hunstanton. He is said to have received signals from the front and relayed them to Whitehall. He was an expert on using the Baudot machine. I’m interested because he was my maternal grandfather. I last saw him in Nottingham in 1963 on my way to Canada.
Best regards
Robert Orth Ph.D.