Norman Lockyer Observatory

'The Norman Lockyer Observatory in Sidmouth, Devon is a historic working optical observatory and an educational centre for science, especially astronomy, meteorology, amateur radio and sciences of the coast and countryside. The Society promotes public awareness of and interest in science, and supports science education in schools, colleges and universities ...

'The Observatory was established in 1912 by Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer to continue his astronomical research when his South Kensington observatory was closed. Now it provides a facility at which individuals and groups may participate in projects and pursue recreational study of science in a practical way ...

'The Norman Lockyer Observatory Society has a membership of around 300, covering a wide range of ages and backgrounds. It exists in part to further the members' interests in astronomy, radio and science in general and to give them access to a number of telescopes, historic and modern, at the Observatory. It also exists to keep the Observatory operating, to maintain and develop these facilities and to open them to the public.'