It was my Birthday earlier in the week. Thank you to those who wished me Happy Birthday! 👍

Myself and the wife decided to skip work. We then set the mobile phones’ to airplane mode and pay my favourite place, the Lovell Telescope a visit.  It is a testament to one man’s vision, Sir Bernard Lovell. Along with the man who turned that vision into reality, Sir Charles Husband.

You have to book a time slot to visit and for the film show, which we did. Thoroughly enjoyed the IMAX style free and paid shows in the Space Dome. On this visit we skipped the First Light Exhibition (take too long to get around). Then made a beeline to the Planet Café. This time for a piece of cake and a deluxe hot chocolate. The hot chocolate was filled with mini marsh mallows and cream (very nice) 😎.

We walked around the telescope, taking pictures. Alongside the telescope, we looked at the prints of restored Gemini photographs and some short films in the Space Pavilion.  One of the films shows the innards of the telescope. With some lucky staff walking in the bowl of the telescope!

Note to self, must visit more often. 😎

Thoroughly recommended that you pay a visit if you are in the area.   The children will also enjoy interacting with the exhibits.  As it is in the middle of the Cheshire countryside, it is quiet as well as radio quiet. For those who are green fingered there is also the Arboretum to walk around, weather permitting.

The photograph conveys what three thousand tons of steel looks like, precisely guided.

See the website for details.  https://www.jodrellbank.net/visit