A Brass Band plays to a large group of people and passers by in Billingham Town Centre.
Brass Band, Billingham Town Centre
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Monthly Archives: October 2019
St Mary Magdalene Church
St Mary Magdalene Church in Yarm. The church was re-built in 1730 and restored in 1878.
Was this your local Co-op?
Where was branch 31? Does anyone remember visiting this Co-op?
Any memories or accounts of people working on the telescope at Jodrell Bank?
This is the Mark II radio telescope under construction by Head Wrightson in 1963. When completed it was transported to its home at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire. Jodrell Bank (www.jodrellbank.net) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2017 the Mark II was designated as a Grade I listed building, the highest grading awarded to buildings of “exceptional interest”.
The Mark II is part of the MERLIN array of radio telescopes. (That’s Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network in case it comes up as a pub quiz question and you want to impress your team mates). The array consists of up to seven radio telescopes observing phenomena such as galaxies, quasars and interstellar gas clouds. We knew Head Wrightson’s work went around the world, but we can see it also reached far out into the universe…
If you worked on the telescope or knew people who did please let us know!
Corporation Bus Model
This is a hand finished model of an “O” bus that my brother recently got for me. It was made by a gentleman who lives somewhere in North Yorkshire. It looks quite authentic with the spattering of mud along the sides and rear. Also detailed is the address of the General Manager and Engineer, WC Wilson, whose department was in Church Road. Presumably that was in the new Council Offices. Has anyone any idea of the capacity of these buses and what was engine and horsepower?
Photographs and details courtesy of Fred Starr.