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Where I grew up, me and my friends knew that it wasn’t carrots that made you see in the dark. It was radar. We knew it was a wartime myth made up by Churchill to protect the lives of our very families in WW2. Because it was our dads, and also many mums, who developed…… Continue reading Heroes of a different hue.

BRILLIANT BOFFINS! -the extraordinary, brainy, and often oddball men and women of Malvern. There were lots of them in Malvern from time to time, because of the huge US camp (near Hanley Swan?) My mother became briefly engaged to a handsome young US Army captain, a medical student working in a MASH unit, who took…… Continue reading And what about the Americans?

BRILLIANT BOFFINS! -the extraordinary, brainy, and often oddball men and women of Malvern 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…… Continue reading Does anyone remember this chap?

BRILLIANT BOFFINS! -the extraordinary, brainy, and often oddball men and women of Malvern The story of radar and Malvern isn’t just about the men though – there were many brilliant women too. One such was Joan Cullen, who invented “WINDOW”. (The Americans later dubbed it “chaff”). One of my best friends at Hillside school was…… Continue reading Karen Burt (nee Hilsum) – Brilliant Boffin

BRILLIANT BOFFINS! -the extraordinary, brainy, and often oddball men and women of Malvern The story of radar and Malvern isn’t just about the men though – there were many brilliant women too. One such was Joan Cullen, who invented “WINDOW”. (The Americans later dubbed it “chaff”). She got a BSc from Cambridge before they ever…… Continue reading Joan Curran – Brilliant Boffin

Radar and Malvern’s Secret Scientists The country’s Telecommunications and Radar Establishment (TRE) came to Malvern in May 1942Two thousand scientists and their families had to be accommodated in Malvern virtually overnight.They lived either in a large former hotel in the centre of Malvern, or were billeted with families.For a while the Winter Gardens were converted…… Continue reading The unbelievable Truths

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