Jodrell Bank

My dad took our family to Jodrell Bank when i was little – probably close to 30 years ago. Things have changed with a brand new visitors centre and new exhibition centre, but the most impressive thing there is still the Lovell Telescope. It was impressive when I was a little boy, and it was even more so now. That thing is huge. Seeing it on the television diminishes it somewhat. What a feat of engineering. Whilst we were there eating our picnic alongside it, the telescope would regularly turn on its tracks – impressive.

Now the geek in me can’t help but look at a radio telescope and think one thing – ‘the end is near but the moment has been prepared for. but alas, it transpires that Doctor Who didn’t film there. Shame.’