I asked Rainford, who was then the Deputy Bursar if the university had any land away from the university with no electrical interference. So he said, 'Yes, we've got a place near Hodgekiss. We've got a place at High Legh. Why don't you have a look at that?' So I went to High Legh. This was in the autumn of 1945, and it was a day of misty rain and I immediately returned, because there are high voltage lines over this particularly piece of land in High Legh, and they were already sizzling with electic sparks. So I returned, and the next day or the day after, again I said to Rainford, 'No good. Do you have anywhere else?' And he said, 'Well, there's a man over there, you see that man smoking a pipe? He is in charge of the... the university botanic grounds of a place called Jodrell Bank. See if you can interest him'. His name was Sansome.

Now, another remarkable piece of good fortune. Sansome, I hadn't met him before but I told him that I'd just arrived back with this apparatus and he was fascinated. He'd seen that and wondered whatever it was. He turned out to be a keen radio man, and I said, 'Look, I understand you have some land about 20 miles south of Jodrell. Is there any chance of having your permission to take this equipment out there where there is no electricity and seeing if I can free myself of interference?' I reported this to Blackett and Blackett spoke to the Vice Chancellor who was then Sir John Stopford, later Lord Stopford, fortunately a very distinguished scientist, a medical man in fact, another piece of good fortune, having a sympathetic Vice Chancellor.

Now, Stopford quite reasonably thought and had anxiety that those of us who had been away dealing with massive things for six years probably would never be able to return to research and teaching and university. Furthermore, he took the point of view that... that the main point for those of us coming back would be to help restore teaching and get on with the university. So with some reluctance he said to Blackett, 'Why don't we agree that Lovell can take these trailers there for a couple of weeks and then find out what he wants and then come back into the university?' So I again summoned Hey and he arranged for the army to come back and tow my trailers out to Jodrell Bank.