| Description | Contains a mixture of family and professional phtoographs, newspaper cuttings, letters, telegrams, postcards and other ephemera pasted into the volume or adhered with photo corners, and annotated.
Inscription on the first page summarises the contents as follows:
'Love - and Astronomy - in a cold climate
R's meteoric rise in Phase 2 of his career, against a background of the 250' steerable dish being constructed at Jodrell. H produces family'
Contents listed as:
'The Wedding and Honeymoon in St Anton, Austria.
Watson-Watts Radar Awards.
Jodrell Bank - initial grant.
Stamford House - Cotta. Marion born, 1954.
URSI Australia 1952, Hollad 1954, Boulder 1957.
IAU Dublin 1953, Jodrell 1955, Dublin 1955, Cosmic Rays - Mexico 1955.
Italy 1955 - the first time.
Twins born 1956.
Holidays in Seaforth, Anglesey, Guernsey.
The first Sputnik.
Paris Symposium 1956 & 1958.
Caping in the Rain - Brittany and Loire Valley 1958.
Intimations of Australia in the press.' |