I spent much of my childhood in Bletchley, and I remember that during the war, Auntie & Uncle , who lived opposite, had a boarder lodged with them , who worked at Bletchley Park. They Never knew quite what he did there, but he was a wizard with mending watches and clocks, and he would take them to work, "for the quiet times" and clean, and repair them, and everyone had the best working clocks in the area!!!
These people were (rudely) called "Actually's" by the locals - they all spoke with "Oxford "accents, and prefaced everything with "Actually,..." I often wonmder if he worked on the Enigma machine, or other coded information. I expect so - it was all so 'Hush-Hush.'
I went to school in Bedford, and would catch the train there every day from Fenny Stratford station (as it was closer to where we lived). Fenny has the old Roman road - Watling Street going through it.
Oh Dear ...memories...!
from Liz in Melbourne, Oz,
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