Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) is one of the national scientific research laboratories in the UK operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). It began as the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, merged with the Atlas Computer Laboratory in 1975 to create the Rutherford Lab; then in 1979 with the Appleton Laboratory to form the current laboratory.
Aerial view of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
The team at the ALMA project's European Front End Integration Centre at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK.
Didcot is a railway town and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, located 15 miles (24 km) south of Oxford, 10 miles (16 km) east of Wantage and 15 miles (24 km) north west of Reading. Historically part of Berkshire, the town is noted for its railway heritage, Didcot station opening as a junction station on the Great Western Main Line in 1844. Today the town is known for the railway museum and power stations, and is the gateway town to the Science Vale: three large science and technology centres in the surrounding villages of Milton, Culham and Harwell.
Didcot town centre, including the modern art installation The Swirl
All Saints' parish church, parts of which go back to the 12th century
White Cottage, the oldest house in Didcot
A Thames Travel bus on route 98 on Greenwood Way in the new Great Western Park estate