Interview with Patricia Frances Flinn (nee Sharp b.1929) about moving to Bletchley, Robert Maxwell and social life.

Patricia Flinn remembers an incident involving Robert Maxwell and his henchman at the Conservative Club; in her opinion, Maxwell was ‘not a very nice person’. She recalls going to Christmas ‘do’s with her husband’s firm, High Precision, at Wilton Hall, the raffle and a good meal. She recalls Mr Hapgood and Basil Rose, the two company bosses.

She and her husband didn’t have much of a social life – the cinema, trips to Bedford, and her husband and children played or watched football. But equally they didn’t go anywhere very much when they lived in London. Buses are quite good where they live; but some London incomers felt isolated and only stayed one year.

She recalls buying goods on credit, and getting the grammar school uniform for the children from the Co-op. Both she and her husband thought that the move to Bletchley was the best thing they had ever done. They were able to settle there, with their family round them; they would have had no hope of a getting a house in London.