Hello Anne, it was really fascinating to read your recent Daily Mail article. My brother & I are also ‘radar kids’, and have very happy memories of being brought up in Malvern. Our father, Harry Gaunt, must be one of the last of that generation: at the age of 103 he still lives locally in…… Continue reading Sue Thomas remembers her Dad, Harry Gaunt
Category: Nigel Nichols
My father was an MOD policeman
My father was an MOD policeman in the 1960’s at RRE. As a child I remember him wearing the Police uniform which was similar to the civilian Police. He was trained at Hendon and I remember the stories he would tell me of the scientists in the establishment. One certain person was Nigel Nicholls who…… Continue reading My father was an MOD policeman
Remembering Nige Nicholls – he of the basket of shopping on his head
One well-known scientist was an ordinary family bloke during the week but dressed very bizarrely at weekends and used to walk through the town with a shopping basket on his head and his children tethered by rope behind him. As you’d probably expect with so many quirky, clever people corralled into one place, eccentric often…… Continue reading Remembering Nige Nicholls – he of the basket of shopping on his head
`Radar Families' 