Photograph albums
The archives contain a fairly large number of photograph albums. These have been compiled over the years by a variety of people for a variety of purposes.
Overview
PLA: Installation in Building 412 (1956-1957)
Me and my PLA Part IV (1957)
Magnet Sector engineering at Metropolitan Vickers
Construction of Nimrod (1957)
Miscellaneous buildings (1958-1964) : Includes NIRNS housing, Coseners House, construction of Atlas Laboratory, R34 Nuclear and Radiochemistry
Building construction (1962-1963) : Includes construction of the VEC building at Harwell and R2 at RHEL
Nimrod: Machine equipment (1960s)
Nimrod: Various photographs (1960s)
Album No1: Early Nimrod experiments (1964-1966) : Equipment and set-up of early experiments on Nimrod; also an aerial view of RHEL
Various accelerators (1950s-1960s) : Harwell VEC (Variable Energy Cyclotron), AERE Linear Accelerators, various accelerators and cyclotrons, Harwell Tandem Electrostatic Generator, CERN PS inauguration ceremony
Miscellaneous building work (1962-1963) : CEGB substations, R1, R5, R6 and R18 extensions, R22 Restaurant and Lecture Theatre
RHEL Senior Management, Open Day exhibits, Photos used on exhibits (1964)
Nimrod inauguration (24th April 1964)
Nimrod Engineering Group: Magnet Album no.2 (1967) : Technical photographs of magnets, plunger and target mechanisms
Displays for RHEL Open Days (July 1970) and Rutherford Centenary (October 1971)
BC and PPT (1971) : Bubble Chamber and Polarised Proton Target
Rutherford Centenary (29th October 1971) : Royal Society Celebrations: Rutherford Centenary visit to RHEL
Miscellaneous : Miscellaneous loose photographs
Photographic slides : Boxes of photographic slides of the PLA, Nimrod and site