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Breaking the Code: A WAAF at Bletchley

While scanning the Cathode Ray screens with their brilliant green blips and the circles marking off the...

HUT 6, Bletchley Park

In 1942 I went to work at Bletchley Park, - Bletchley Park, BP, Station X, Ultra, Enigma - they were names...

Radio & TV Trade; and Evacuation from Slough

My father regularly acquired bundles of softwood off cuts from a factory situated on Slough trading estate...

I was One of Churchill's Geese

My brother, a qualified surveyor, joined the Royal Engineers and I eventually went into the A.T.S.. This...

The Convent at War

His long career in the Air Force included flying in both wars and being posted abroad so we had no settled...

Memories of a WAAF Teleprinter Operator at Station X (Bletchley Park)

In December 1941 I was posted to Broadway, near St James's Park: the plaque at the front door read...

My Father's Secret: Bletchley Park and Beyond

Until the end of his life, he maintained that he could remember little to nothing about his time at...

The Breaking of the Enigma Code

Was this pre-invasion, bearing in mind that four towns in the North East of England had been shelled in...

Yes, Mum, There Really Was a Secret: Bletchley Park

Until the end of his life, he maintained that he could remember little to nothing about his life at...

Childhood Recollections: In London and Bletchley

Marjorie, the eldest, ended up at the famous Bletchley Park working with the code-breakers whilst Eileen,...

New Zealander's in Worminghall

The pilot, Eddie Robertson, managed W-Willie — the Lancaster, as best he could and they crash-landed...

Joining the RAF

I lived in North Devon and my Mother had arranged for me to be met at Waterloo Station by my Aunty who...

The Sound of a Lancaster Engine

I remember 'Bunny' who had worked as a hairdresser at Elstree Studios who would wash our hair over...

A Crash Landing in a Beaconsfield Street.

A Crash Landing in a Beaconsfield Street. Before me,for what seemed like a long length of time but could...

Children of the Park

The park itself had extensive woods and beautifully kept lawns which surrounded a decent size lake that at...

My Wartime Experiences

When I was 7 I remember waiting to see Father Christmas on Christmas Eve, and hearing the door open and...

From Rags to Riches part 2

Christmas 1946 Wynne's Mum and Dad asked me if I would like to spend Christmas with them at their home...

Excitement and Fear as a Young Lad.

A lot of them went back to London when the bombing didn't start and during the Blitz in 1940 when the...

Recollections of the Second World War part 8

We learned later that this was a ruse to mislead the Germans into thinking they had put enough fuel on...

Primary schooldays WW2

Chelsfield was only a few miles from Biggin Hill which was a fighter defence air station guarding London....

My Childhood War in Reading and Bath

My brother Patrick Wason was in the Navy, my sister Margaret Wason in the WRAF and my Dad's youngest...

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 5: No. 1 Heavy Repair Shop (HRS) RASC High Wycombe September 1940 - January 1941

Luftwaffe night raids had hit London in September and October 1940 and his mam and dad wondered how safe...

My Evacuated Years-Rayners Lane to Denham

We that's Mum and Dad and my older brother by five years were all to be evacuated, not the usual...

Children of the Park: Memories of Bletchley Park

When Lord and Lady Leon died the whole of the Park was taken over by the Government, and eventually the...

Life at Bletchley Park

The Testery was able to decrypt the partially decrypted messages produced by the Newmanry so that all the...

Wartime memories of my childhood in Bedford Part 3 - My father's (Major C V Clarke) invention of a trench digging machine and th

The one establishment under the Ministry of Defence that he set up was this research and development weapon...