Easter Days Out
Bawdsey RADAR
Lettering Arts Centre
The Transmitter Block, Bawdsey
Snape Maltings
Open on Easter Sunday and Monday this unique exhibition, with its interactive displays, tells the story of the “Invention that Changed the World”. It reveals how scientists, engineers and technicians came together at Bawdsey in the 1930s in total secrecy to prove that radio waves could locate aeroplanes, ships and other targets. Bawdsey became the world’s first operational radar station in 1937 and played a pivotal role in the Battle of Britain in 1940. The display features the lives of the people who developed the technology and the radar operators, mainly women (WAAFs), whose dedication helped to bring victory in WW2. Since then RADAR has played a vital role not just in air traffic control and marine navigation but police RADAR guns as well as weather forecasts using RADAR maps. Perhaps less well known is RADAR astronomy where the surfaces of the moon and planets have been mapped and satellites monitored. With the recent advent of WiFi, RADAR is used to passively monitor the flow of human traffic in buildings. In our homes, at the heart of the microwave oven is the cavity magnetron, a device originally developed for airborne RADAR.
A new exhibition opening this month champions the rare art of letter carving by East Anglian apprentices. Masters and Apprentices; The Transfer of Passion, features the work of seven apprentices plus work by their masters and teachers including well known East Anglian sculptors and letter carvers such as Charlotte Howarth and Gary Breeze. A full Lettering Arts Trust apprenticeship lasts for two years, but the design, drawing and layout of letters themselves can take years to master. East Anglian letterer apprentices include Stuart Buckle and Louise Tiplady, whose work will be displayed alongside that of their teachers, showing their breadth and variety, a testimony to the patient way precious and fragile letter carving skills have been passed on. Joanna Lumley commented on the work of the Trust: “to see the beauty of the lettering, and the ingenious skilled loveliness in the way the works are presented, somehow links us to eternity”.
INFORMATION The exhibition is open from 12.30-4.30pm Admission £4, children free www.bawdseyradar.org.uk
INFORMATION www.letteringartstrust.org.uk
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