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| The Kettering Group | Tyneside, UK 2021 Jan 31 Sunday, Day 31
Maintained by: Robert Christy Zarya Home Kettering Group Home Kettering Group Equipment in Detail: The Tracking Station Radio Receivers Radio Aerials Additional Radio Equipment Timing Calculating and Computing Recording Archives Miscellanea Racal RA-217 Brochure Elsewhere on the Web: British Pathé News Film Contemporary 1966 film of the tracking equipment | Cornucopia A few items do not fit into the technical categories but were nevertheless important to the activities and history of the Group.
Item | Purpose | Note | Currently Residing
Kettering Group Necktie | Commemorative item - Possession of one given personally by Geoff Perry confirms full membership of the Group. | Dark Blue with Kettering Group logo in colour. | Various
Kettering Group Paperweight | Commemorative item, distribution unknown. | Clear glass, circular approx 75mm diameter, 20mm deep, Kettering Group logo etched on upper surface. Distribution unknown. | Various
Kettering Group Pin Brooch | Commemorative item - Possession of one given personally by Geoff Perry confirms full membership of the Group. | Silver metal with Kettering Group logo in colour. | Various
Coffee Percolator | Sustenance | Perceived as a permanent fixture - smell pervaded the laboratory during mornings, pupils were allowed occasional use when tracking early-morning recoveries or working holidays and weekend....... but mainly reserved to the teachers | Probably destroyed
Physics Laboratory 'A', Science Block, Kettering Grammar School | Housed the tracking station | Formerly located in the School's Science Teaching Block on Windmill Avenue, Kettering | Demolished 2007
MBE | National Honour presented to mark Geoff's work - 1973 New Year Honours List | Personally presented by HM the Queen Family Item | Geoff Perry Collection.
Jackson-Gwilt Medal | Presentation by the Royal Astronomical Society | Personal presentation in 1974 to mark Geoff's work Family Item | Geoff Perry Collection.
Royal Aero Club - Prince of Wales Trophy | Presentation to mark work of the Group during 1983 | Presented at the Science Museum, London in December 1984 - several Group members present | Unknown.

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