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Further reading □ Overview □ PLA □ PLA: Installation in Building 412 (1956-1957) □ Me and my PLA Part IV (1957) □ PLA Instruments (1950s/1960s) □ Nimrod □ Magnet Sector engineering at Metropolitan Vickers □ 40 photographs of Nimrod □ 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) □ Nimrod Engineering Group: Magnet Album no.2 (1967) □ Use of iron blocks in Nimrod experimental area (1967) □ BC and PPT (1971) □ Upgrading the Nimrod Injector (1974) □ VEC, PLA and Nimrod (c.1963) □ Buildings □ Miscellaneous buildings (1958-1964) □ Building construction (1962-1963) □ Buildings R25 and R26 (1962) □ Miscellaneous building work (1962-1964) □ Events □ RHEL Senior Management and Open Day exhibits (1964) □ Nimrod inauguration (24th April 1964) □ Press Contact photos (April 1964) □ Open day exhibits (19 May 1966) □ RHEL Open Days (July 1970) and Rutherford Centenary (October 1971) □ Rutherford Centenary (29th October 1971) □ Opening of the Library (26 November 1974) □ Other accelerators □ Accelerator at TRE (1947 to 1950) □ Various accelerators (1950s-1960s) □ Photos of Bubble Chambers (1959-1964) □ The Saclay Bubble Chamber and hydrogen supplies (1967) □ Other photographs □ Loose photographs up to 1964 □ Loose photographs from 1965 onwards □ Loose colour photographs □ Miscellaneous □ Slides
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Further reading ⇓

□ Overview
PLA
□ PLA: Installation in Building 412 (1956-1957) □ Me and my PLA Part IV (1957) □ PLA Instruments (1950s/1960s)
Nimrod
□ Magnet Sector engineering at Metropolitan Vickers □ 40 photographs of Nimrod □ 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) □ Nimrod Engineering Group: Magnet Album no.2 (1967) □ Use of iron blocks in Nimrod experimental area (1967) □ BC and PPT (1971) □ Upgrading the Nimrod Injector (1974) □ VEC, PLA and Nimrod (c.1963)
Buildings
□ Miscellaneous buildings (1958-1964) □ Building construction (1962-1963) □ Buildings R25 and R26 (1962) □ Miscellaneous building work (1962-1964)
Events
□ RHEL Senior Management and Open Day exhibits (1964) □ Nimrod inauguration (24th April 1964) □ Press Contact photos (April 1964) □ Open day exhibits (19 May 1966) □ RHEL Open Days (July 1970) and Rutherford Centenary (October 1971) □ Rutherford Centenary (29th October 1971) □ Opening of the Library (26 November 1974)
Other accelerators
□ Accelerator at TRE (1947 to 1950) □ Various accelerators (1950s-1960s) □ Photos of Bubble Chambers (1959-1964) □ The Saclay Bubble Chamber and hydrogen supplies (1967)
Other photographs
□ Loose photographs up to 1964 □ Loose photographs from 1965 onwards □ Loose colour photographs □ Miscellaneous □ Slides

Opening of Rutherford Laboratory Library (26 November 1974)

SRC18056 Gerry Pickavance, Prof Burcham (Chairman of the Nuclear Physics Board) and Library Designer Phil Crane (Building and Civil Engineering Group) admiring the tray SRC18057 Gerry Pickavance and Prof Burcham with plaque and tray SRC18058 Dr and Mrs (Alice Isobel) Pickavance SRC18059 Admiring the plaque "This Library was opened / on 26 November 1974 / by / Dr TG Pickavance, CBE / Director of the / Rutherford Laboratory / 1957-1969)" SRC18061 Guests SRC18062 Guests; right: Jack Howlett (Atlas Computer Laboratory) SRC18064 Guests SRC18068 Unveiling (from Rutherford Laboratory Bulletin) SRC18069 What do I do with the curtain? Panorama of R61 Library. Was this the photograph used for the presentation tray?

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