Grubb Parsons and David Sinden

[Glasspusher]

Back in 2011 I set up a web site to raise awareness about the great British telescope making firm of Sir Howard Grubb Parsons and Co., usually referred to simply as Grubbs. David Sinden was the last chief optician at the firm, and went on to set up his own business, the Sinden Optical company. My web site covers the work of both Grubbs and David Sinden. The original site was setup using Google sites. Since then Google have seen fit to improve there online web site  facilities. Web sites produced using the old format would be done away with unless migrated to the new format sites. Unfortunately during the migration of my site some information was lost. I am working to re-build the web site and add new information.

Those interested in the work of Grubbs and David Sinden can find the web site here: https://sites.google.com/site/grubbparsons/home

If any body has any relevant memories or information which they would like to include on the web site it would be most welcome.

Thanks for looking.

John

[Mick J]

Just getting a 404 URL not found

[iantaylor2uk]

Incidentally, when I visited the University of Central Lancashire's Alston Observatory a couple of weeks ago, the 1920's 15" refractor there had a Grubb clockwork equatorial drive (inside the white metal base)

 

 

[Gfamily]

The Wayback Machine seems to have archived a copy from 2014 - there may well be later copies. 

https://web.archive.org/web/20140320080000/https://sites.google.com/site/grubbparsons/home 

[jambouk]

Yes, I get the same error code when trying the link in the original post.

There is a scan of the equipment they built for the Stockholm Observatory on archive.com

https://archive.org/details/40-ft.RevolvingDomeForStockholmObservatory/mode/2up

I have a couple of copies of their catalogues which I keep meaning to scan and put on archive.com

Ian Glass in South Africa I think is also interested in Grubb Parsons, I communicated with him in 2016 about them.

 

[Glasspusher]

Sorry about the 404 error, not sure what is going on. I will look into it.

John

[Glasspusher]

OK, hopefully that problem is now fixed and the site should be visible. Please let me know if you can see it now, thanks.

John

[Gfamily]

42 minutes ago, Glasspusher said:

OK, hopefully that problem is now fixed and the site should be visible. Please let me know if you can see it now, thanks.

John

Thanks John

It mostly works, though the links on the 'grubb-parson/documents' page 

https://sites.google.com/site/grubbparsons/home/grubb-parsons/documents

Show as "Google Drive - you need access " messages

[Glasspusher]

Thanks for that. Hopefully the changes I have made will enable those documents to be seen by all.

John

[Gfamily]

On 15/02/2022 at 15:04, Glasspusher said:

Thanks for that. Hopefully the changes I have made will enable those documents to be seen by all.

John

Yes, working now.

Thanks

[dph1nm]

John

The link to the Durham University Grubb Parsons lecture series is now here

https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/physics/major-lecture-series/grubb-parsons/

cheers

NigelM

[Glasspusher]

Thanks for that, I will add this during my next update.

John