‘We’re delighted to be awarded SEGD Best of Show - it has been a privilege to tell this extraordinary and quintessentially British story of how an amateur astronomer pioneered a new field of science in the Cheshire countryside. Use of the original telescope skin lends the First Light Pavilion particular gravitas, weaving the heritage steel into the fabric of the exhibition in a unique and poetic way. A serious historical artefact that has been salvaged for this remarkable display, the dish fragments reveal not only their own story, but the story of our place in the Universe. The history the dish was witness to now plays out across its surface.”

– Roger Mann, co-founder and director

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