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Jon Agar

As a historian of Jodrell Bank, I agree! And the reason it is important is that it has been made to mean different things to different people at different times. Who's up for a mega thread on how and why? (I'm off for lunch now, but I'll do it after. I'll need the energy...)

John Grindrod

Really one of the most important postwar sites in Britain

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Patrick McCray

Great book...I recall reading this with gusto when I was writing my telescopes book.

Jon Agar

In 1945, Bernard Lovell returns to Manchester University physics department. He has spent the war working on radar. Through his wartime contacts he brings war surplus radar equipment, and sets them up in a university botanical station in Cheshire: Jodrell Bank His small team study meteor echoes

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Jon Agar

So, from its origin, Jodrell Bank is intertwined - through materials, through social relationships - with the Second World War, and therefore its storied, even mythologised, associations of science, national survival and national identity That is, if such a meaning needs to be made...

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Jack Kirby

What happened to the botanists subsequently?

Canaries Caption It

Hope lunch was good - now educate us dammit..

Margot Finn

Fab thread Jon (or is it a novella...)