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Jodrell Bank gets Unesco World Heritage Status
« on: July 07, 2019, 01:35:10 PM »

Loved it when I visited many years ago, but still having to resist the rhyming slang

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-48893080
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Re: Jodrell Bank gets Unesco World Heritage Status
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2019, 01:43:53 PM »
Don't satellite tv broadcasts and gps satellites muck up its reception?
(Or gp satellites for pedants.)
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Re: Jodrell Bank gets Unesco World Heritage Status
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2019, 07:14:13 PM »
Quote from: Steve H on July 07, 2019, 01:43:53 PM
Don't satellite tv broadcasts and gps satellites muck up its reception?
(Or gp satellites for pedants.)

Yeah. But when that happens they put this endless video of a man using a potter's wheel on the monitors ...

It adds national heritage to World Heritage

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Re: Jodrell Bank gets Unesco World Heritage Status
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2019, 11:26:05 PM »
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