Get daily celeb exclusives and behind the scenes house tours direct to your inbox We have more newsletters Get daily celeb exclusives and behind the scenes house tours direct to your inbox We have more newsletters George Clarke impressed TV viewers by building an impressive tribute to his late father. During a special episode of George Clarke's Amazing Spaces, 50 year old George and his sidekick Will Hardie aimed high, creating a hand-built observatory in honour of George's star-loving dad. Drawing inspiration from an 1830s camera obscura, a 1950s observatory, a futuristic planetarium, and even a box of fruit, they reached for the stars with a remarkable design that merged a Victorian astronomer's library with a spaceship body.
But creating a rotating observatory roof, a chart table that rises from the floor and a collapsible telescope, pushed their skills almost to breaking point. In the end, though, the result was truly out of this world. On the show, George explained: "A 1950s child, my dad was brought up in a golden age of astronomy," adding that his dad had "always wanted his own backyard observatory".
Born in Sunderland in 1974, his father, who worked as a printer, died when he was young and his mother remarried. His biological father passed away in a water skiing accident in 1981 when he was aged just 26 and George just seven. In the programme, Will and George headed to Bristol to see the planetarium at We The Curious for inspiration for the tribute observatory.
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