MORE fascinating stories about Malvern’s crucial role in the development of high technology are now being revealed in the town centre.

Following the success of its first exhibition in 2016, Malvern Radar And Technology History Society (MRATHS) has unveiled an all-new series of posters in Church Walk, outside Waitrose and Wilko.

Among the things that visitors will learn from the exhibition are:

•The link between President Donald Trump and Malvern’s wartime radar research;

•Why a bee carried a radar aerial on its back;

•Why RAF radar plotters were working 24 hours a day at Malvern in 1954;

•How a radar team under Bernard Lovell - later creator of the famous Jodrell Bank radio telescope - helped win the war against enemy submarines in 1944;

•How Malvern scientists worked out how to make the silicon chips used in electronics on an industrial scale.

The exhibition was opened on Saturday morning by Malvern mayor Cynthia Palmer.

She said: “MRATHS’s previous Church Walk exhibition raised awareness of the fine heritage of scientific work in Malvern and I hope the new display will inspire young people to take up similar careers and also lead to a permanent exhibition in the town.”

Malvern’s link with the electronics and defence industries began in 1942, during the Second World War, when the Telecommunications Research Establishment and the Air Defence Research and Development Establishment both moved to the town from locations on the south coast.

At the end of the war, the establishments remained in the town, changing names from time to time, putting Malvern on the high technology map, and forming the precursors of today’s QinetiQ.

The exhibition runs until October.