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Oral history recording of Betty Watts (b.1920).

WLM/023

Interview with an instructor at the Bletchley Park Post Office Training School recalling memories of Bletchley in the 1940s and 1950s.
Interview about Bletchley Station, Bletchley Park and life in the town in the 1950s.

WLM/023/001

Betty Watts recalls her journey to Bletchley and her first impressions of Bletchley Station. She thought Bletchley the ‘dullest place I’d ever been.’ Her memories include the Thursday market, the bad bus services and lack of amusements and she comments on some of the changes to the town. Talking of rail travel, she comments that ...
Oral history audio recording of Sylvia Chase (b.1930).

WLM/024

Interview about memories of Bletchley Station from 1966 onwards, and use of the railway. Topics include the station buildings and places to shop.
Interview about use of Bletchley station and the railway from the 1960s.

WLM/024/001

Sylvia recalls her hazy first impressions of Bletchley Station when they arrived from Watford in the dark: a ‘country town rail station.’ When living in Bletchley they used trains a great deal, her husband commuted to Watford, shopping in Oxford and Bedford, and visiting relatives in Sussex. She recalls the special cheap tickets to London ...
Oral history audio recording of John Parsons (b.1939).

WLM/025

Interview covering memories of steam trains, and motor rallying. Topics include repair to a fire tender when the Flying Scotsman visited Bletchley in 1972.
Interview about memories of Bletchley and the railways.

WLM/025/001

John Parsons talks of his memories of steam trains when he was a boy: ‘the soot in your eyes’ and sitting on paper so that you wouldn’t feel sick. He notes that trains were the only form of transport for most people, at that time. While running his garage, in 1972, he recalls being called ...
Oral history audio recording of Marion Haines.

WLM/026

Interview recalling regular trips on the route between Bletchley and Buckingham. Topics include Bletchley Station and railway staff.
Interview about local train journeys in the Bletchley area from the 1940s.

WLM/026/001

Marion Haines remembers coming to Bletchley from Verney Junction, aged 5 or 6, to visit friends and weekly family trips to visit her grandparents in Buckingham. On leaving school she started work in Bletchley so commuted by train until the Buckingham line was closed. She has memories of some of the Bletchley Station staff: Bill ...
Oral history audio recording of Margaret Goy (b.1941).

WLM/027

Interview covering topics such as train travel in the 1960s, Bletchley Station and comparison with train travel currently.
Interview comparing train travel in the 1960s and today.

WLM/027/001

Margaret Goy recalls the cafeteria at Bletchley station; she used to take her children there when they travelled to visit family in London. They used trains regularly, on days out and to visit family; prices were very good. Asked about memories of railway staff, she comments that in the past there was always a guard ...
Oral history audio recording of Sybil Wright.

WLM/028

A brief interview from a more recent arrival in Bletchley about the town and railway station.
Interview about Bletchley Station and the local railways.

WLM/028/001

Since she moved to Bletchley in 1993, Sybil Wright has used Bletchley Station regularly, usually to visit her brothers in Twickenham; following a recent heart attack she has travelled less. She comments that: ‘the service is quite good,’ and particularly notes that the new imported German trains are really excellent. She recalls that when she ...
Oral history audio recording of Monica Austin (b.1935).

WLM/029

Interview with a long-term Bletchley resident about her use of the railways from Bletchley, mainly in the 1930s and 1940s. Topics include travel to Wolverton Grammar School, shopping trips to Bedford and family holidays in Yarmouth and Swansea.
Interview about use of steam trains from Bletchley station in the 1930s and 1940s.

WLM/029/001

Monica Austin recalls her ‘happiest moments’ of train travel were trips to Bedford for shopping and to visit her aunt, when she was a small child during the war. In war-time she would see lots of soldiers about on trains and stations; and railway station name signs had been removed, to confuse foreigners. She also ...
Oral history audio recording of Pamela Essam (b.1938).

WLM/030

Interview about life in the family of an engine driver, their use of the railways from Bletchley and memories of the station.
Interview about use of the railways from Bletchley, and issues relating to engine driver work.

WLM/030/001

Pamela Essam recalls going to meet her engine driver father at the railway station, sometimes watching him on the engine turntables and occasionally having a ride in the cab. She remembers an American troop train going through the station once when she was there: ‘they threw sweets & gum at us through the window’. ...
Oral history audio recording of Wendy Cook (b.1932).

WLM/031

Interview with the daughter of an engine driver. Topics include work conditions for drivers, Bletchley Station during the war, and the demolition of old Bletchley Station buildings.
Interview about Bletchley Station, wartime incidents and memories of the railways.

WLM/031/001

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 ...
Oral history audio recording of Pauline Redhead (b.1940).

WLM/032

An interview covering memories of the railways in Bletchley. Topics include engine drivers heating food in the cab; playing near the line and trainspotting on the Sixty Steps as a child; the Royal Train; their journey on the Honeymoon Special.
Interview about childhood memories of the railway in Bletchley, and the Honeymoon Special.

WLM/032/001

Pauline Redhead recalls taking tea to her uncle, an engine driver, in a billy can; he heated up his food by putting it on a shovel and heating it up on the coals. She talks of the railway just being part of life; they used the train to go to Northampton and Bedford; as a ...
Oral history audio recording of Dorothy Hendry (b.1934).

WLM/033

An interview covering memories of the wife of a signalman in Bletchley from the 1950s onwards. Topics include memories of Bletchley, living at Railway Terrace, family holidays by train, the Great Train Robbery and the Beeching cuts.
Interview about memories of life as a railway family in Bletchley from the 1950s, and related events.

WLM/033/001

Dorothy Hendry remembers her first visit to Bletchley Station and to the town: a ‘quaint little town’. On moving to Bletchley they first lived in Railway Terrace, which she describes as ‘a nice community’, everyone was connected with the railways. Talking of family life there, she mentions the Newfoundout, the old railways sheds and the ...
Oral history audio recording of Malcolm Ravensdale (b.1950).

WLM/034

Interview with a railway employee who worked at Euston House in administrative and technical posts from 1970 to 2004. Topics include his job, colleagues and fellow-commuters, incidents on the railways, union activity and Bletchley Station.
Interview about work as a rail administrator and manager at Euston House.

WLM/034/001

Malcolm Ravensdale talks of his job in the Chief Passenger Manager’s Department at Euston House, in administrative and then technical roles, planning the weekend activities on track maintenance. He describes several incidents that occurred on the railway during his working life, and how problems were solved, for example some incidents of people falling out of ...