 Hello, thank you for joining me. It's day two of our Iron Curtain vehicle rally around Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Got this nice little bumper practice I put on my car and quite a lot of the other cars got it So here's my larder. We've met this morning at the Marriott Hotel near Kew University I didn't stay here. I stayed down at the North Staffordshire Hotel by Stoke-on-Trent station Just because I wanted to stay at a railway hotel. Some people have camped, some people stayed here Local so we've come from various different places, but we're all meeting here And we're gonna go for a drive up to Johnall Bank. So I've never been there before. I'm really looking forward to this Let's just have a quick look at the cars we have here. We've got two two-stroke Trabant We've got a Fiat 126 or a Polsky Fiat Moskowicz another Trabant so nice to have a Russian car Wartburg More Trabant, more Wartburgs And keeping them with the Russian theme. We have a Zafra jet and we also have a Tharker So I'm not sure if this car's coming with us, but it's certainly not Eastern Block But it'd be a nice addition. I'm Irish minor So I always pray if I hadn't got into Eastern Block cars I might possibly be driving around in one of them or a marina But I got into Eastern Block cars here at the bar because there's a Zafra jet So what we're gonna do once we've all finished talking and we're all ready We're gonna go for a road run up to Ords-Jodell Bank. So it's gonna be a good day Bodgerall Bank The telescope is where you can just see a bit of it, but we're gonna have a proper look at that later So here we have a fantastic line up of cars. My lard are joined by a few Wartburgs, Trabant, some Moskowicz and DKW and a Zafra jet. And you might see a bit more of the Hesiterscope Just there you can see the club members of the IFA club are taking pictures of their cars Against this backdrop So what we're gonna do, there might be one or two more cars to join us yet. You never quite know We're gonna go and have a look around the Jodrell Bank. I think I can hear a train Can't see it. Okay. There's a there's a railway line just the other side of that field I could just hear a train going fast, but I don't actually think it's gonna be trains in this video But we might hear the old train pass now, and then there we are. You get more see more of the the telescopes there Behind us. So yeah, what a great line up of eastern block cars So now we're gonna go and have a look around the site I've just paid my entrance fee to Jodrell Bank Telescopes over there, but as you come in through the ticket booths, they take you in this direction So I thought we'd have a walk this way into the arboretums because I always do like any form of gardens or arboretums So we will obviously go and see the telescope, but first I understand they're doing some building work They're building another discovery centre. So it's not finished yet, but it looks like quite an interesting piece of architecture So what I thought we'd do is take you around here. We'll have a look at that Then we'll go and see the telescope itself. So that's why there's all this Harris fencing around here The building we're looking for is behind behind there something so It's funny because you think you come to the telescope, but I feel like I've come to an arboretum I have come to Arboretum Come for a so, you know if you come here It's not you don't just come and look at the telescope You actually get quite a nice walk outside in amongst the trees, which you know if something I always enjoy doing We are going to head off in that direction I felt it was all going. I just wanted to show you just seeing this plant here Look at that. I just thought Not a short part is but it looks really nice. So yeah, and then we fell head off down here Where towards where the building work is taking place? So as we come along this path just here You can see this path looks fairly new. We've got various astronomy pictures on display So a bit of an outdoor art gallery some Very nice pictures and I quite like these benches. They're kind of a cross between a Bench and a summer house because obviously it is a bench Couldn't really call it summer house, and it's not really a rain shelter because if I sat here I'm kind of sheltered, but my legs Are outside, but I think they're quite nice benches. I wouldn't mind the end of the garden Anyway, let's go and have a look at this this building work. They're doing because from the pictures I saw it looks quite interesting. I can see some work. I can see Big concrete Building with a fence on the roof So I think the idea is you're actually gonna be able to whether you'll be able to it's gonna have a grass roof so we're talking of you know something very modern and Striking something that will sort of Blend into the landscape Nicely so as we get to here You can see Harris fencing and everything. Well, look at that. That's the Building they're building so it looks as though Almost looks a bit like I don't have anyone when I was little used to watch telly tub is it looks a bit like The telly tubby house So whether we're actually be able to walk over the roof. I assume that will all be grass. I'm not sure but I Think that's quite cool. So then they have got a huge arboretum I thought you must it's closed day because they're doing some tree work I was told which is a bit of a shame, but you know from someone who has worked and in country I imagine Understand things like that have to happen and they can't take chances So we're not going to go into the algorithm today, but if you do come here on a day when that's open I'm sure you can have a very pleasant walk in that direction. So this is there So it's like, yeah, it's an entrance there. There's a big hole there. That's probably another entrance So I have to come back here everywhere. I go these days It's like all I have to come back and see that when that's done But you know, that's that's nice because whenever I go somewhere It is always nice to come back and you know revisit in a few years time. So we will come here again I'm gonna now follow this path down through this open part of the arboretum And we're gonna go and see what we have come here to see the main the really really big thing the Telescope so let's walk forward to find the telescope at Jodrell Bank So just had a look at the Arboretum we're now going to go into here into the orary because this is quite cool What they've got here look up there. There's like a model of the solar system. That's the Sun That's the earth and that little white dot is the moon and we can actually Set the solar system in motion because as you can see right now It's a stationary solar system. The solar system isn't stationary. There's a big lever here I mean, it's always nice to get my hands on Turning this lever if you look up there So it's starting to turn I'm just like It's now been set to automatic Right above me it feels really weird looking up at the earth as if I'm in space, but yeah, this is there's the earth with the moon spinning around it and You can see various other planets up here I assume that's pretty duper to that one because it's the biggest I also do find it quite fascinating if you look Above the clockwork mechanism that is setting the solar system this Orary solar system we have in motion. I find that quite fascinating seeing all those tiny little cogs Which is operating it, but there's on the arm where earth and the moon is There's you know quite a few of them. So that's pretty cool So what we're going to do now is I'm going to continue looking around the site and We're going to go and have the most important thing here the Jodrell Bank That was very interesting in there seeing that model of the solar system I did also really like the clockwork side of it. I do find things like that fascinating But now let's go and see what we actually came here to see Jodrell Bank. Well, when I say Jodrell Bank Isn't actually this telescope. It's called the Lovell's telescope. Jodrell Bank is the site the place we are now the Research Center is Jodrell Bank and the telescopes called the Lovell's telescope. It's not the only telescope here There's quite a few smaller ones but it's The Lovell's telescope you can see from everywhere. If you look across the field you may just be able to see There's a couple more telescopes over there. So let's go and have a look It's an amazing piece of well. It's an amazing structure. It's pretty impressive what it's done So yeah, it's a really fascinating piece of history and it's still in everyday use It's not just a piece of museum history. It's something that's you know every day. It's working It's it's you know, it's been here since the 1940s. So it basically the reason it came into being was I say it's the Lovell's telescope a man called Sir Bernard Lovell He was doing research into what goes on in space And the problem he was finding was he was doing it Manchester University at the time A tramway went went right through the middle of Manchester University not today's modern metro link But the original Manchester tramway and when the trams pandagraphs arched on the wires that interfered With his research his telescopes were picking that up. So he needed somewhere a bit more quiet So someone said well, I know some land up at Jodrell bank. You'd be able to do a bit of research there for a couple of weeks So, you know that happened and then this happened. Um, so It's really quite fascinating But one thing I want to show you if you have a look um once everyone else has had a go I've got to do this. See there's a mirror there And a mirror there Their sounds they're not optical mirrors Um as in you're not going to look in them and see yourself, but their sound moves So if you talk like those people are there They will be able to hear those people. So what we're going to have to do We're going to have to wait, um or I will wait and I I shall have a go at that myself And then we'll get on with the rest of the video That was quite fun. I enjoyed doing that. So let's now go and have a good look at this telescope. So Bernard Lovell was given permission Eventually to build this telescope. He was given a certain amount of money to spend and he was told not to overspend, but you know as with um Projects inevitably he did overspend, but you know what happened was they weren't best pleased that he had overspent on This huge piece of equipment, but he redeemed himself because during the time When there was you know the space race and um America and Russia wanted to be first to land on the moon the Russians Launched their mission now. There were various crash landings on the moon But the Russians were the first to actually land safely on the moon not with people but with a machine and they took pictures And what happened was with this telescope? He managed to interfere and basically intercept and get those pictures that the russians wanted kept secret so We were able to publish the pictures the russians pretty weren't best pleased And uh, he kind of redeemed himself for overspending We should have a look how big it is so you can see now you can see this bit here. So it turns like this it can Oscillate or rotate around It's really quite fascinating. See this it looks like a building up there. There's one of them on each side now They don't look that big from down here, but if you think about it That's one two three four five and then quite a bit more storage So that's like three houses on top of each other. So, you know it's massive It's you can see it from just about everywhere, you know, if you go up to somewhere like mo-cop folly You'll be able to see this and if you go up various other hills Around here such as shutlings low. I'm pretty sure on a clear day. You can see it. You can't miss it It's a pretty big telescope. Um, as I said, there are other telescopes on the site So there's one there and this building here might not be the prettiest of buildings But it's a fairly important building because it's the control room So in there now, I can't actually see them, but there is someone in there now Controlling it and every now and then it does actually move And this path here might look like just a path from the building to The telescope itself. It's actually there's actually tunnel buildings here It carries all the wires and everything from the building To telescope if you have a look here You can see like a light brick Down into the tunnel Close and look now I said earlier on in the video We were in the car park and I heard a train go past said there wouldn't be any railways in this video Well, there's not what you're thinking when I say railways, but if you have a look at this You can see there is a sort of a railway because it's on its wheels sit on rails. So it's a Perfect circle of a railway and the question is do we say It's one very very wide railway, you know, it's in probably more than twice the width of brunels Seven foot and a quarter inch board gauge. I think the what the widest railway in britain That's currently out of action is the kengorn funicular railway, which is two meters wide Um, I went on that a few years ago But as I say, it's currently out of action. So that was the widest rail in britain I mean, yes, I know it's not a conventional railway and it doesn't carry fasten just made to be But then if you actually look at it Is it a really wide railway or is it actually two parallel narrow gauge railways because There's two sets of rails On each side and you can probably just see here on the feet you can see these rather large wheels So is it two narrow gauge rails with rather heavy-duty rails and then another narrow gauge railway In fact, probably there's a third in the middle, but I kind of quite like to think of it as from here It just looks like one ridiculously wide railway And if we come out here you can see into the dish itself The dish of the telescope so I don't know too much about audience and that's how it works But you know, you cannot fail to be impressed by the sheer Scale of it. Um, I mean, yes, I've seen tower blocks and taller structures, but just it's like You know a bit like when I was little I used to like playing with connects. It's like a giant Kenex kit You know what if I was um, if I still had my connects If I was still 12 years old, I know when I get home I would be getting out and I probably would start trying to make a model of this It's just amazing that I'm standing right here now in the middle not in the middle but looking up at the dish of the level telescope. I think it's an amazing Feet of engineering. I mean, I'm not too interested in space and that but I appreciate, you know Some people are but I just think it's to me the most interesting thing is the structure It's just so huge and the fact it's it's in use all the time Earlier on it was turning around Doesn't it when you stand it? It's not like it goes spinning round like a round about it moves really quite slowly But it's it's visibly obvious And you couldn't seem to the dish earlier the dish was more If we say now it's like this it was perhaps more like that So it's a fascinating building. So I think um, that brings us to the end of today's video And for this weekend this ifa weekend we've had up in the stoke on Trent area Thank you very much to the organizers not just for this weekend But for the one we had up in the northeast a few weeks ago Thanks to the ifa committee for organizing two fantastic weekends There will be some more of these weekends coming in the future. So we'll um, I'll enjoy Visiting them and making more videos and um, so thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like share subscribe and comment and um from must be The biggest telescope certainly in the uk Thank you very much for watching. Goodbye