Halley Bay - 1964

The new hut, built in 1964

Erecting the new hut, February 1964. The heavy steel framework was hoisted into place using a keg at each end of the building, the cables from their winches connected to an A-frame. Cunning! Photo: © Lewis Juckes

Completed hut, March 1964, with graffiti already there. The porch in the middle of the long side had the door, and when that drifted up (fairly soon) we used a hatch on top of it. Later a shaft was added to the outside at each end. The close one was where the auroral observer clambered up each hour at night to make his observations, from his little darkened enclosure in the met office below. The one at the other end, by the radio shack, carried aerial cables out. The (relatively) untrodden snow on the right is over the 1961 hut, and the drum is to mark the area where one should not walk for danger of falling through and into the cavity above the roof. Photo: © Lewis Juckes