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From :RobinMy Uncle and Aunt were part of the TRE Team at Malvern during the War and up tothe 1970s. Graham Russell was one of the research scien;sts married to mymother's sister Val. They were originally based in Swanage and Graham wasrecruited by TRE from GEC At Leicester where they both worked and were married.They oQen talked about the night they were spirited away from Swanage in theearly hours of darkness to Malvern and were billeted in lodgings in the town.Graham Russell was also one of the team under Sir Bernard Lovell and constantlyflew night missions from Bristol tes;ng airborne radar. As they had no children Ispent every summer at their new home in Daventry Avenue one of the houses thatwere built for the scien;sts and staff at TRE. Graham built me a morse code set andtaught me how to send messages. He later worked on radar guidance systems forBloodhound and Blue Streak missiles before re;ring due to ill health due to exposureof micro wave and infra Red technology. I do have photos of them and will post aQera trawl through the loQ Robin Davison(Looking forward to those Photos, Robin! - Anne)Added later:Hi AnneI’ll dig some out We have some of the house in Daventry Avenue and I’ve also found myUncle Graham Russell listed working for Matravers team.I’ll have a dig around and sopleased I’m not the only one proud of what my family were involved with.BestRobinAnd more:Graham Russell worked with another radar scien;st Les Weaver who was married to Hilary.Les bought a 1954 Ford Popular Reg PUY226 and had it un;l 1965 when it was bought fromhim in June for me having just passed my driving test.Les and Hilary Weaver used to play bridge at home quite oQen with Graham and Val Russelland all the Research Team seemed very close and more of a family than work matesAnd later:My Uncle Graham Russell worked with Tom Kilburn on the development of computers andI remember my uncle bringing home very small components and transistors to replacevalves when he made me a portable hand held morse code radio.Graham said that Tom had believed that computers would run the world eventually and hewas so right!
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