Reader helps solve mystery on the hill

Maybe it's because it was clearly Top Secret that only one reader has come forward to tell us more about a mysterious wartime structure at the top of Nedge Hill, Stirchley.

We featured the structure, a brick building with a wooden roof which had collapsed inwards, in our weekend Picture Detectives slot. The photo was taken 10 years ago and we are not sure if it's still there today.

In the past it has been suggested to us that it was an "RAF fixer station". We appealed for further information, and that led to Mrs Joan Forrester, of Wellington, giving us a call.

"I can't give you much information about it, but there was a station up at the top of the Nedge which was a radar station, I think. The RAF were up there at one time and one of the chaps was billeted with us at Stirchley Grange," she said.

"He could not ever say anything much about it. But that was where he went every morning. His surname was Rabjohn - I can't remember his first name - and he came from Bristol.

"His wife lived with us as well, and then he was moved. I think he was sent abroad."

Mrs Forrester, whose name at the time was Joan Phillips, said: "It was during the war, in about 1942 to 1943." She never went to see the structure at the time.

"I don't think you were allowed. There was a great big water reservoir that the Home Guard guarded at the top of the Nedge - my brother was in the Home Guard," she added.