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Two generations down
I’m lucky enough to have a quite extraordinary grandfather. Charles Kenneth Moore was born in Cheshire a little more than a century ago before being brought up hundreds of miles to the west in the Canadian province of Quebec.
During the 1930s and the early years of the Second World War he was part of a small team of engineers at Biggin Hill who contributed to history with the invention of radar. Following the war, he co-authored a bibliographic guide to electronic engineering that ran through several editions before, at the age of sixty, after a disastrous eye operation at his local hospital, he suddenly went blind.
He spent the last fifteen years of his life writing children’s stories and articles for the Manchester Guardian. He died in 1983, the year that I was born.
I thought it may be apt to add a couple of his articles to this site, firstly because it’s nice to maintain a connection, secondly because the written word is incredibly enduring and the articles still carry weight, and finally as a nudge to any elder members of our society who claim that they are too old to get to grips with this digital revolution. You are, as he writes, never too old to learn a new trick.
Filed under: News | Tagged: grandfather, guest blogger, radar, writing
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