Children Of Bletchley Park

Synopsis

<table class="detailList" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="labelCol"> </td> <td id="00N40000001lfG4_ilecell" class="data2Col inlineEditWrite" colspan="3"> <div id="00N40000001lfG4_ileinner">I was born in the Royal Naval and Marine Maternity Hospital, Portsmouth on the 1st of October 1938. <br /><br />Our family moved to No 2 Cottage Bletchley Park in 1940 until 1949. <br /><br />After we left the Park Mum and Dad moved in to The Plough Inn at Simpson, near Milton Keynes. <br /><br />It was in 1950 through to 1955 I attended the Royal Hospital School in St. Vincent house at Holbrook. <br /><br />I joined the R N and served on HMS Birmingham in the Med and HMS Dryad as a RADAR and Voice Radio Operator at HMS Tamar in H K on C.WS. <br /><br />After the RN I had various jobs eventually I took a job as a Radiologist and became a QA/QC P/Engineer in Industrial N.D.E and Industrial Efficiency, working all over the world for 50 years, now we live in South Africa in a beautiful wooden house with a tree growing through the roof. <br /><br />When I retired my Sisters (The Mighty Twine) asked me to put together something about our lives in Bletchley Park during <br />WWII, this was the beginning of my starting to write and gave me a hobby I had never thought of taking up. <br /><br />During my life, I have had a few hobbies’, which included drawing <br />Cartoons and photography as a semi-pro taking pictures of Weddings, Portraits’ and Models, happy to say I did manage to <br />make a living doing these and enjoyed what I was doing.</div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>