The Stena Line Ferry from Ireland making its way to Pembroke Dock viewed out of the open window frame from the Chain Home Low Radar Station at Strumble Head, just a stones throw from the lighthouse.
The site is a World War II radar station that formed part of the Chain Home Low network, specifically designed to detect low flying aircraft. The station became operational in early 1940 providing cover over Cardigan Bay and the southern Irish Sea, and was decommissioned in June 1946.
The surviving structures include a transmitter/receiver block with adjacent latrines and aerial gantry base, standby-set house, associated buildings and guard house and an Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) interrogator cubicle and aerial base. The major buildings are mostly built of red brick, often with flat reinforced concrete roofs.
It was re-opened again as a bird observation point in 1988 and is renowned as a place to watch seabirds and track migration.
Over the last decade or so it has also achieved renown for monitoring cetaceans and other marine creatures.
