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
PLA: Installation in Building 412 (1956-1957)
Me and my PLA Part IV (1957)
PLA Instruments (1950s/1960s) : PLA instruments and components largely collated by Bernard Loach
Nimrod
Magnet Sector engineering at Metropolitan Vickers
40 photographs of Nimrod : Collated by Chief Engineer, Percy Bowles
Excavation of Nimrod (1957)
Construction of Nimrod (1959)
Nimrod Injector (1959)
Nimrod Vacuum System (1961)
Nimrod: Machine equipment (1960s)
Nimrod: Various photographs (1960s)
Nimrod: Construction and set up (1959-64)
Album No1: Early Nimrod experiments (1964-1966) : Equipment and set-up of early experiments on Nimrod; also an aerial view of RHEL
Nimrod Engineering Group: Magnet Album no.2 (1967) : Technical photographs of magnets, plunger and target mechanisms
Use of iron blocks in Nimrod experimental area (1967)
BC and PPT (1971) : Bubble Chamber and Polarised Proton Target
Upgrading the Nimrod Injector (1974) : Upgrading the Nimrod injector which became the ISIS injector
VEC, PLA and Nimrod (c.1963) : Photos selected by Bernard Loach
Buildings
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
Buildings R25 and R26 (1962)
Miscellaneous building work (1962-1964) : CEGB substations, R1, R5, R6 and R18 extensions, R22 Restaurant and Lecture Theatre
Events
RHEL Senior Management and Open Day exhibits (1964)
Nimrod inauguration (24th April 1964)
Press Contact photos (April 1964) : Contact photos from various press outlets for open week
Open day exhibits (19 May 1966) : Exhibits for Open Day 19 May 1966
RHEL Open Days (July 1970) and Rutherford Centenary (October 1971)
Rutherford Centenary (29th October 1971) : Royal Society Celebrations: Rutherford Centenary visit to RHEL
Opening of the Library (26 November 1974) : Opening of the R61 Library and unveiling of the commemorative plaque by Gerry Pickavance
Other accelerators
Accelerator at TRE (1947 to 1950) : The 10 MeV accelerator at TRE, Malvern
Various accelerators (1950s-1960s) : Harwell VEC (Variable Energy Cyclotron), AERE Linear Accelerators, various accelerators and cyclotrons, Harwell Tandem Electrostatic Generator, CERN PS inauguration ceremony, linac at University of Minnesota, Alvarez linac at Berkeley
Photos of Bubble Chambers (1959-1964) : Includes 16-inch Imperial College, 4-inch Oxford University, British National Hydrogen Bubble Chamber and Saclay Bubble Chambers plus BNHBC Press Visit
The Saclay Bubble Chamber and hydrogen supplies (1967)
Other photographs
Loose photographs up to 1964 : Loose monochrome photographs mostly in the HL series
Loose photographs from 1965 onwards : Loose monochrome photographs mostly in the SRC series plus unknowns/undated
Loose colour photographs : Loose colour photographs
Miscellaneous : Album of miscellaneous photos including Oxford Electrostatic Generator Project, Electrical and Mechanical Workshops, Design Office, Resin Lab and Magnetic Tape Analysing Room (1962-1964)
Slides : Boxes of photographic slides of the PLA, Nimrod and site