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Further reading □ OverviewAccelerator at TRE (1947 to 1950)PLA: Installation in Building 412 (1956-1957)Me and my PLA Part IV (1957)Magnet Sector engineering at Metropolitan Vickers40 photographs of NimrodExcavation of Nimrod (1957)Construction of Nimrod (1959)Miscellaneous buildings (1958-1964)Building construction (1962-1963)Nimrod: Machine equipment (1960s)Nimrod: Various photographs (1960s)Nimrod: Construction and set up (1959-64)VEC, PLA and Nimrod (c.1963)Album No1: Early Nimrod experiments (1964-1966)Various accelerators (1950s-1960s)Miscellaneous building work (1962-1964)RHEL Senior Management, Open Day exhibits, Photos used on exhibits (1964)Nimrod inauguration (24th April 1964)Press Contact photos (April 1964)Photos of Bubble Chambers (1959-1964)Photographs of open day exhibits (19 May 1966)Nimrod Engineering Group: Magnet Album no.2 (1967)The Saclay Bubble Chamber and hydrogen supplies (1967)Use of iron blocks in Nimrod experimental area (1967)Displays for RHEL Open Days (July 1970) and Rutherford Centenary (October 1971)BC and PPT (1971)Rutherford Centenary (29th October 1971)Opening of the Library (26 November 1974)Upgrading the Nimrod Injector (1974)Loose photographs up to 1964Loose photographs from 1965 onwardsLoose colour photographsSlides
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OverviewAccelerator at TRE (1947 to 1950)PLA: Installation in Building 412 (1956-1957)Me and my PLA Part IV (1957)Magnet Sector engineering at Metropolitan Vickers40 photographs of NimrodExcavation of Nimrod (1957)Construction of Nimrod (1959)Miscellaneous buildings (1958-1964)Building construction (1962-1963)Nimrod: Machine equipment (1960s)Nimrod: Various photographs (1960s)Nimrod: Construction and set up (1959-64)VEC, PLA and Nimrod (c.1963)Album No1: Early Nimrod experiments (1964-1966)Various accelerators (1950s-1960s)Miscellaneous building work (1962-1964)RHEL Senior Management, Open Day exhibits, Photos used on exhibits (1964)Nimrod inauguration (24th April 1964)Press Contact photos (April 1964)Photos of Bubble Chambers (1959-1964)Photographs of open day exhibits (19 May 1966)Nimrod Engineering Group: Magnet Album no.2 (1967)The Saclay Bubble Chamber and hydrogen supplies (1967)Use of iron blocks in Nimrod experimental area (1967)Displays for RHEL Open Days (July 1970) and Rutherford Centenary (October 1971)BC and PPT (1971)Rutherford Centenary (29th October 1971)Opening of the Library (26 November 1974)Upgrading the Nimrod Injector (1974)Loose photographs up to 1964Loose photographs from 1965 onwardsLoose colour photographsSlides

Miscellaneous loose colour photos (from mid-1980s)

86FC2958 R22 Restaurant by night (May 1986) 92FC3615 R22 Restaurant and red roses (July 1992) 92FC3616 R22 Restaurant and planting (July 1992) 94FC4892 R22 Restaurant (August 1994) 94FC4982 R22 Restaurant (August 1994)

85FC5729 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory R59 Security Lodge by night (December 1985) 86FC2950 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory main entrance R59 Security Lodge (May 1986)

94FC3696 R61 Library Bridge (June 1994) 94FC3697 R25A, R61 and Library Bridge (June 1994) 98RC1064 R61 Library Bridge with Moon (January 1998) 99HC4861 Panorama of R61 Library Bridge (Hasselblad camera, October 1999)

90FC1601 R71 Building model (1990) 90FC1603 R71 Building model (1990) 91RC5451 R71 Entrance Porch and builder's equipment (1991) 91RC5452 R71 Entrance Porch seen from inside (1991) 91RC5859 R71 Front Elevation (1991) 91RC6212 R71 Front Elevation (1991) 94RC1952 North wing of R71 in the snow (1994) 94RC2243 North wing of R71 in the snow (15 February 1994) 98RC1665 R71 by night (February 1998) 98RC1667 R71 by night (February 1998) 98RC1669 R71 by night (February 1998)

85FC5546 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory entrance looking towards Atlas Computer Laboratory and cherry trees (1985) 85RC5552 Atlas Computer Laboratory by night (November 1985) 91RC2574 Atlas Computer Laboratory and cherry trees (April 1991) 93FC2191 Atlas Computer Laboratory and cherry trees (April 1993)

92RC3083 Fish-eye view of ISIS Hall 3 from crane (April 1992) 94FC3590 Flags outside ISIS Main Entrance (June 1994) 94RC5970 View of ISIS Hall 3 from crane (November 1994) 99HC4867 Flags outside ISIS Main Entrance and Experimental Hall (Hasselblad camera, October 1999)

94RC2653 Paul Williams cuts the SERC cake (1994) 95RC2144 Gordon Walker cuts the CLRC cake (1995)

87RC1530 (1987) 87RC1531 (1987) 87RC1532 (1987) 87RC1533 (1987) 87RC1534 (1987) 87RC1535 (1987) 87RC1536 (1987) 87RC1537 (1987) 87RC1538 (1987)

In 2001 Adam Hart-Davis presented a BBC documentary called What the Victorians did for us which included an experiment to recreate a Nipkow Disk -- a 1920s attempt at a functioning television. These photos are taken in the RAL mechanical workshop; Adam is talking to Chris Osland who built the device.

01RC3173 (2001) 01RC3174 (2001) 01RC3175 (2001) 01RC3176 (2001) 01RC3177 (2001) 01RC3178 (2001) 01RC3179 (2001)

90RC7444 Juan and Bill juggling for Children in Need (1990) 93FC2193 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory entrance (1993) 93RC5385 Even Directors need to know how to safely carry packages; Paul Williams pays close attention to Jim Wells (1993) 98RC3931 Two pupils from Helston School in Cornwall with (centre) Dr Chris Davis, Head of the Ionosondes Group at Rutherford Laboratory, and some of the equipment used to monitor radio waves (1998) 99HC4858 Panorama of site looking north; R1, R71, BEPO chimney and Tandem van de Graaff in the distance, R22 Restaurant (Hasselblad camera, October 1999)

1960s
HLC49475 Diagram: Mk.III target mechanism (March 1967) HL64676 Assembling the superconducting magnet (15 November 1968)
1970s
Model of the R3 Nimrod Motor Alternator set
1980s
82RC3259 Director's Garden Party at Coseners House (29 June 1982) 82RC3259b Director's Garden Party at Coseners House (29 June 1982) 86FC4346 Dish at Chilbolton Observatory (September 1986) 87RC3955 and 87FC4496 Wind energy composite (Shots for report covers for Wind Turbine Group, July/August 1987) 88FC1629 Portrait of Lord Rutherford (photo from 23 February 1988) 88RC2450 Restaurant Servery (27 April 1988)
1990s
90RC3682 Experimental wind turbine (Blade installation at wind energy site, May 1990) 97RC3071 Coseners House, Abingdon (July 1997) 98RC1510 Dish at Chilbolton Observatory by night (February 1998) 99HC4863 Solar panel (Hasselblad camera, October 1999) 99HC4864 Solar panel and experimental wind turbines (Hasselblad camera, October 1999)
2000s
01RC1171-01RC1179 Vulcan Petawatt upgrade (January 2001) 01RC1161-01RC1170 Vulcan Petawatt upgrade (January 2001)

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