Above : The rambling route to first radar station – "The road from Poona to Pokhari camp just got wilder as we progressed along it."
H.E.T. recalled : "Old-time Governor's residence. We stayed in the first floor. The second floor was suffering from the effects of monsoon rain, although I made myself an office in the drier rooms."
Above : the radar camp	Below : the radar camp inmates, Xmas 1945
Above : Rare photographs of the "Cropper's Witnesses" group featured at the RAF Mahableshwar India JazzFest 1946 – Alan Chandler, clarinet, Joskins on charpoy, Hari ‘Achmed' Turner on packing case bass, Greenie on drums (and refreshments) with the ‘Rev' Nick Cropper telling-how-it-is. (Sponsored by the guy advertising Y-Fronts). Below : The Rev Cropper in working togs (left) and his impressive RAF dress uniform (right)
The camp theatre group in action	Some RAF ghosts!
Some of the locals

Purundha Fort On one peak of Purandhar is a Hindu temple. The GEE technical site is on the other peak, complete with Nissen hut and portable aerial, carried up an almost vertical slope by Madrasi Regiment engineers and assembled in situ. You can see some of the battlements of the fort directly underneath. The two pictures on the right show a shrine along the way and one of the Fort's gates.

Below : The domestic site viewed from the road to the Fort; we're living in the large building, which looks as though it was constructed from materials prised from the fortifications.

Pokhari Camp : Views around the plateau