Meetings take place at 7pm at the Science Centre, Malvern College, College Road, Malvern WR14 3DF and also virtually.
Future meetings are planned:
All held on Wednesdays starting at 7pm.
- 14th January 2026 – The Atomic Bomb Missions; Methods and Myths – Alan Gray
- Wednesday 11th March 2026 – AGM Battle of the Beams
- Wednesday 13th May 2026 – Lasers – Andrew Scott
- Wednesday 8th July 2026 – Riding on the wind: A Radar Perspective of insect flight – Joe Riley
- Wednesday 9th September 2026 – Tactics, Politics and British Engineering: The Rise and Fall of TSR – David Greig
- Wednesday 11th November 2026 – Last Stand in Worcestershire(TBC) – Phil Kendrick
To find the Science Centre see the bottom of this page.
Refreshments will be available afterwards, in the science centre.
Please invite anyone else you feel might be interested – there is plenty of room.
Details of Previous Meetings can be found here
Science Centre
Please park in College Road and walk south (away from the town centre) turn left just past the main college building and then right. The science centre is ahead of you. There is a small amount of parking next to the building – please keep this free for those with limited mobility. The disabled entrance is to the left of the building; go up two floors in the lift. See map below.
Map
The Q&A section of the January 2026 edition of “Aeroplane” asks if anyone knows the location of any surviving Wurzburg radar parts captured in the Bruneval raid in 1942. The MRATHS website states “They were evaluated at the Telecommunications Research Environment (TRE) on the South Coast and we believe later brought to Malvern. MRATHS would like to locate these parts. Do you know where they are now?” I have replied to Aeroplane’s Q&A compiler, Barry Wheeler, advising this and mentioning the Bruneval information on the MRATHS website and also “The Technology Station”. Has MRATHS had any luck in locating any Bruneval radar parts since the website page was produced?
Thanks for your enquiry. Sadly we have not solved this puzzle. We get leads occasionally but no luck so far.
Mike
My husband has a fascination with ww2 history and is well read on the subject. I’d love to give him a relevant gift at christmas, and was hoping you might be interested in giving him a private tour of the new museum at the station? It would be a fund raiser as of course I would give a suitable donation for your time. ( as I understand admission is free) Pleae let me know if this is possible? of any other ideas you might have!…? Thank you
Dear Felicity,
Our museum is undergoing refurbishment during the winter, but we can arrange to open for you in early January if that would be of interest?
I will contact you privately to arrange something. Mike
Dear Sirs/Madam,
I manage a community friendship group and wonder if you do private tours or talks.
Dear Jenny,
Thank you for your interest. We do run a number of events during the year including guided walks. These are usually run as part of Another programme broader such as The Malvern Walking Festival or the Malvern Midsummer. In 2022 we hope to run a special event celebrating the 80th anniversary of Scientists being evacuated to Malvern.
I will email you separately.
I have walked my dog around the edge of the Qinetiq (RSRE) for years. However over lockdown I have not walked that way for well over a year.
I first realized the absolutely anlilation of the site. It’s all gone apart from a huge piece of blast proof concrete. Who is deciding to wipe out our past accomplishments. It’s a travesty.
Look forward to your reply.
Caroline Green
Hello Caroline,
100% of ex-RSRE staff would agree with your sentiments!
The events leading to the ‘travesty’ are now fairly historical. Circa 1990 the government of the day decided it would be cheaper to privatise the work done by its R&D establishments – RSRE being just one of its many. Via, first, the controlling hand of Defence Research Agency (DRA) followed by the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) morphed into QinetiQ plc over a 10 year period. The company began trading in June 2001, its name then replacing DERA.
QinetiQ is flourishing on the northern half of the old RSRE site, this being one of the company’s three major UK locations. We must hope that this continues, thus maintaining Malvern’s place as a leading centre of the country’s high-tech work.
Ron Henry
I am interested in finding out any information about radar development at Malvern during ww2 as my father worked there from 1939 _ 1945 thank you. Brian Dan’s email address is joudanks@outlook.com