"""One of the few remaining relics at Dungeness, apart from some residents, is the odd shaped structure pictured above. As children we called it the ‘Decca Research Station’ but in fact it was the Marconi structure or ‘sheds’. Built around the late 1890’s Guglielmo Marconi (best known as the ‘man who invented radio’) it was used for research and development in the transmitting of radio signals – and in 1899 Marconi became the first person to send a message across the English Channel. The structure still stands in a forlorn state. The current owner had applied for planning permission to re-build on the site with something ‘sympathetic’ to the area and a structure attempting to emulate what it was too replace. Nothing heard to date about any further development and in the meantime it deteriorates rapidly."""
Taken from Dungeness.Org.Uk
