Nice time-lapse shots of The Dish. Did you happen to catch it in use, or was the motion some sort of demo or maintenance mode?
I was pleased to see that the Parkes telescope was conceived and partly designed by two great British scientist/engineers, "Taffy' Bowen, who was one of the developers of radar, and the famous Barnes Wallis, who designed the bouncing bomb used in the "Dambusters" raid.