Jodrell Bank named UK's greatest unsung landmark

Jodrell Bank named UK's greatest unsung landmark

ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Sep 5 2006, 07:12 PM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	BBC 9/5/06: "Aye to the telescope" "The [BBC] Magazine's search for Britain's greatest unsung landmark is over. The thousands of votes have been counted and Jodrell Bank in Cheshire is the winner." [snip] "[T]he telescope was one of the first scientific sites in the world to truly engage with the general public. It is currently waiting for funding so it can build a new multimillion pound visitors' centre. " Much more info: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5314172.stm -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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djellison View Member Profile	Sep 5 2006, 07:21 PM Post #2
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	disclaimer : I was born in Chester, a few miles from Jodrell Bank I voted for this - the other's on offer were all well and good - but JB is an astonishing place - bigger even than the large DSN assets Doug

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ljk4-1 Jodrell Bank named UK's greatest unsung landmark Sep 5 2006, 07:12 PM

djellison disclaimer : I was born in Chester, a few miles fr... Sep 5 2006, 07:21 PM

DonPMitchell I hope you have all read Sven Grahn's classic ... Sep 5 2006, 09:50 PM

ljk4-1 I remember the first time I visited the VLA in New... Sep 13 2006, 03:13 PM

Steffen Is their new visitor complex ready ? Sep 15 2006, 09:22 AM

PhilCo126 Here's the website: http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/ ... Sep 23 2006, 08:00 PM

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