Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, 15 June 2002

The observatory occupies a large site at Lord's Bridge, about five miles south west of Cambridge. Familiar to anyone who has studied S281, as the electronic "hop field" where Jocelyn Bell-Burnell discovered pulsars in the sixties. The site which incorporates a disused station is also home to the Ryle telescope, an array of very large dishes mounted on railway lines, working together in aperture synthesis mode.

The One Mile Telescope comprising moveable dishes mounted on special tracks.

Photographs by Paul Ruffle.