1969 Putteridge Club House

In the late 1960s the club house, The ATC headquarters in Crescent Road in Luton, used by The Luton Radio Club was sold for redevelopment. The club secretary at the time, Don Pinnock, G3HVA, found an empty building in The Putteridge Estate. It was the old laundry building which was in a very poor state of repair. During 1968 and 1969 a group of volunteers spent a lot of time making it habitable, including installing a generator, but the club only ever held a couple of meetings. At the end of 1969 the Luton VHF Group held it's one

 

The club house at Putteridge

This is the old laundry at Puttridge in December 1969 where we entered a 2m contest. Note the 2m antenna and the smoking chimney. The chimney was an old metal telephone pole fitted to an enclosed fire in one of the rooms

View of the club house accross the fields

The club house was on the edge of the Putteridge estate. It was the laundry for the estate. There were two other farm cottages on the same plot.

Barry clearing the snow

Barry Jackson, G8FFM, clearing the snow away from the drive so that we could get the cars parked.

Barry and Phil in the shack

Barry Jacjson, G8FFM and Phil Thompson, G3TUI I think, in the shack at Putteridge