Having read about it in the June 2014 edition of Physics World, we went in search of the memorial plaque to Roger Bacon. Thanks to the helpful staff in the Westgate car park, we were able to locate it behind the tree in the top picture on the outside wall of the Westgate shopping centre. Turns out that Roger bacon divides opinion. He was a very early writer on optics and calendar reform. He drew on the work of Islamic scientists. He is credited with being an early advocate of testing claims by doing experiments. It is this latter that seems to have caused most of the arguments in recent years.
