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Site
Site plans and photographs
R1
R2
R22
PLA (Proton Linear Accelerator)
Building plans
NIMROD
Excavating NIMROD
Nimrod operational Tannoy announcement
R3 building plans
Diagnostics and timing sequence
First operation of Nimrod to full energy
The failure of Nimrod main magnet power supply and alternators
Bubbly personalities
Investigating the digital preservation of raw Bubble Chamber data
ISIS
First neutrons
Neutron and muon source
Animated overview
Inauguration of ISIS
Space
NASA Ground Station
NASA 12m Antenna
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT)
Lasers
R1 extension (1977)
Inauguration of the laser facility (1977)
Titania (1994-1999)
A history of high-power laser research and development in the United Kingdom

Site plans and aerial photographs

NIRNS site map (30 August 1962, Ref 010123 Site Layout NIRNS) Aerial view of Rutherford Laboratory looking east; the "floating island" effect is most odd (1966) Aerial view of AERE Harwell and Rutherford Laboratory (1967, RAF Photography)

Aerial view of Rutherford Laboratory looking south-east (8 July 1975, RL19794) Aerial view of Rutherford Laboratory looking south-east (1972, R12150) Aerial view of Rutherford Laboratory looking north-west (1972, R12151)

A curious set of badly-faded photographs from August 1974 taken by Hunting Surveys Ltd, Elstree Way, Boreham Wood, Herts flying west to east. A note on the back says "This has been printed by an electronic controlled exposing machine to produce the maximum detail in highlights and shadows."

4436 (20 August 1974) 4438 (North is to the bottom of the photo; DIDO and PLUTO reactors centre bottom, 20 August 1974) 4439 (DIDO and PLUTO reactors centre bottom, 20 August 1974) 4440 (Star-shaped Harwell Electron Accelerator slightly left of centre, 20 August 1974) 4441 (Small white squares are prefab roofs, 20 August 1974) 4443 ("P"-shaped Tandem accelerator building next to Hangar 8, 20 August 1974) 4444 (20 August 1974) 4444 colour-corrected using AI 4445 (20 August 1974) 4446 (Small white squares are prefab roofs, 20 August 1974)

84FC3142 Aerial photo looking north-west (July 1984) 84FC3143 Aerial photo looking west (July 1984) 84FC3146 Aerial photo looking north-west (July 1984) 84FC3147 Aerial photo looking north (July 1984) 84FC3148 Aerial photo looking north-west; prefabs in the foreground (July 1984) 84RC3052 Aerial photo looking south-west (July 1984) 84RC3053 Aerial photo looking south-west (July 1984) 84RC3056 Aerial photo looking north-west; R68 in the foreground (July 1984) 84RC3057 Aerial photo looking north-west (July 1984) 84RC3060 Aerial photo looking west (July 1984) 84RC3062 Aerial photo looking west (July 1984) 84RC3062 Aerial photo looking west; R18 in the foreground (July 1984) 84RC3064 Aerial photo looking north-west; R68 and R20 in the foreground (July 1984) 84RC3066 Aerial photo looking west towards the Library Bridge (July 1984) 84RC3068 Aerial photo looking west; R1 in the foreground, DIDO and PLUTO in the distance (July 1984) 84RC3069 Aerial photo looking north-east; R25 in the foreground (July 1984) 84RC3071 Higher altitude aerial photo looking west; prefabs in the foreground (July 1984) 84RC3074 Higher altitude aerial photo looking north-west (July 1984) 84RC3076 Higher altitude aerial photo looking north-east; Nimrod spoil-heap in the foreground (July 1984) 84RC3077 Higher altitude aerial photo looking north-east; Nimrod spoil-heap in the foreground (July 1984) 84RC3095 Aerial photo looking west along the runway/Fermi Avenue (July 1984) 84RC3096 Aerial photo looking west; East Car Park in the foreground (July 1984) 84RC3097 Aerial photo looking south-west (July 1984) 84RC3098 Aerial photo looking south-west; entrance to Harwell's Bus Park bottom right corner (July 1984) 84RC3099 Aerial photo looking south-west; entrance to Harwell's Bus Park bottom right corner (July 1984) 84RC3100 Aerial photo looking west along the runway/Fermi Avenue (July 1984) Aerial view of Rutherford Laboratory from the south (1984, 84RC3105) Aerial view of Rutherford Laboratory looking almost north; R25 and R68 in the foreground (1984, 84RC3108) 84RC3110 Aerial photo of west of site; BEPO chimney, Didcot Power Station and Tandem van de Graaff in the distance (July 1984) 84RC3114 Aerial photo of building roofs, looking south-east (July 1984) 84RC3115 Aerial photo looking north-east back down Fermi Avenue; BEPO chimney, Didcot Power Station and Tandem van de Graaff in the distance (July 1984) 84RC3119 Aerial photo of site; R20, Library Bridge and R1 in the foreground (July 1984) 84RC3123 Aerial photo of site; R18 in the foreground (July 1984) 84RC3125 Aerial photo of site; the computer extension of R1 in the foreground (July 1984) 84RC3128 Aerial photo of site looking south; four cooling fans of Nimrod Water Tower in the foreground (July 1984) Aerial view of Rutherford Laboratory looking north-east towards Didcot (1984, 84RC3132) 84RC3133 Aerial photo of site above R6 Experimental Hall looking north-east towards the back of R2 and Didcot Power Station (July 1984) 84RC3135 Aerial photo of site above Nimrod/ISIS mound looking south-east (July 1984) 84RC3136 Aerial photo of site looking south (July 1984) 84RC3137 Aerial photo looking west along Fermi Avenue (July 1984) 84RC3138 Aerial photo looking north-west towards Atlas Computer Laboratory (July 1984) 84RC3139 Aerial photo looking north-west towards Atlas Computer Laboratory (July 1984) 84RC3140 Aerial photo looking north towards Atlas Computer Laboratory and BEPO chimney (July 1984) 84RC3141 Aerial photo looking north-east towards Atlas Computer Laboratory; BEPO chimney, Didcot Power Station and Tandem van de Graaff in the distance (July 1984) Aerial view of Rutherford Laboratory looking almost north (1984, 84FC3142) Aerial view of Rutherford Laboratory looking north-east towards Didcot (1984, 84FC3147) 89RC3070 Aerial photo looking over ISIS Experimental Hall north-east towards BEPO chimney, Didcot Power Station and Tandem van de Graaff (1989)

93RC3384 Aerial photo looking west (August 1993) 93RC3386 Aerial photo looking west (August 1993) Panoramic aerial view of Rutherford Laboratory from the east (1993, 93RC3392. R71 has now been built. The small square pointed roof of the Security Lodge can be seen opposite the Atlas building with the silos of DIDO and PLUTO in the distance) 93RC3415 Aerial photo looking west, DIDO and PLUTO in the distance (August 1993) 93RC3416 Aerial photo looking west, R22 Restaurant in the foreground (August 1993) Rutherford Laboratory and Harwell from the south (1995, 95RC1959. An unusual shot taken from the top of the ISIS mound. The RAL dish and Restaurant are visible together with the sprawl of R68 and the cooling chimney of BEPO in H10 at Harwell. The white goalpost-like structures to the west are ionosondes. The blue chimney next to the one behind H10 is a nasty scratch on the photo) On Fermi Avenue heading towards Rutherford Laboratory (1995, 95RC1962. The E-reg Vauxhall Astra means it was registered between August 1987 and July 1988)

03RC3569-03RC3580 Aerial views of construction of Diamond Light Source (November 2003) 03RC3581-03RC3588 Aerial views of construction of Diamond Light Source (November 2003) 04EC3762-04EC3773 Aerial views of construction of Diamond Light Source (November 2004) 04EC3774-04EC3784 Aerial views of construction of Diamond Light Source (November 2004) Rutherford Laboratory and Diamond from the south (2004. Diamond is almost complete but the landscaping still needs to be done. Across the road to the north of Diamond is the Harwell Bus Park and to the east of that the Tandem Van de Graaff generator with H8 and H7 behind. The two big Harwell chimneys have gone along with H9, but the Rutherford Security Lodge is still there)

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