Flashback: 1985

The original logo that I drew back in and around 1985 is still out there. Check it out! The original version was green and yellow; the colors of the Norwich City Football Team. Norwich is where we lived and where Dad worked. Outside of that, this is 100% the logo I drew all that time ago. Apparently, this was used by an old colleague of Dads and good friend of the family who worked at the University of Bath. I should probably claim some royalties for this! Regardless, the old snail has been updated for the modern age. Enjoy!



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  1. Amazing that this has been in use so long.

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  2. It's crazy that we found it. I certainly didn't have it anymore. I used this old version to create the new one that we are using.

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  3. I'm the old colleague who worked in Bath and continued to use the logo until retirement in 2015 (the snail has now retired from academia too). I worked with Roy in Norwich from 1983 until his move to Texas (to the same physics department I had worked in from 1976-83!). After the 1985 workshop we hung the snail on the wall (changing the word 'workshop' to 'research'), where it stayed until the Norwich Physics Dept was closed down in 1999. When I moved, with the slow positron lab, to Bath in 1999, I took the snail with me and he adorned the lab wall in Bath for another 16 years. When we decided to adapt him for his new surroundings, a postdoc of mine designed a new version in Bath colours (mostly blue) - but he was a stickler for zoological accuracy and insisted that the Bath snail had eyes on the end of stalks and the 'e' on the other side of the shell.... I have a photo of the lab with both snails displayed - I shall send it to Michael if I fail to add it to this site. After the postdoc left I decided to revert to the old snail, albeit in new colours, which I much preferred. Members of the group in Bath always used the logo in conference talks, and the snail (never named) often escaped from the logo and appeared here and there in powerpoint presentations. I now live in Warminster, less than 2 miles from your route to Lands End, and so I hope to see you cycling by. Good luck!

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    1. I had a t-shirt. I wonder what happened to it....

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    2. I hope you find it, and how you are well Simon.

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  4. Fantastic! Thanks for providing the full backstory Paul. It's a pleasure to hear from you. The Snail has gone international now. Hope to see you on the ride. Perhaps we can arrange for a lunch stop close to you.

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