Interview about Bletchley Station, wartime incidents and memories of the railways.
Wendy Crook talks about her three months work at the platform 1 cafe on Bletchley Station in the evenings, remembering that customers were ‘few and far between’ and it could be lonely. She remembers the manageress, ‘a stickler’. She was sad to see the old station buildings demolished, but cannot recall when it happened. Her father and father-in-law both drove only steam engines; they were in different unions, which sometimes led to arguments. She comments that the railways were at that time one of the better large employers. When war was declared, the family had to return to Bletchley from their holiday because her father was in a reserved occupation: she remembers bombs dropping on Bletchley one night, as her father was driving a train into the station.
Creator
Cook, Wendy
Contributor
Hill, Marion
Reference number
WLM/031/001
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