Andrew Chatterton
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Podcast Appearances
We're really, really just scraping the surface.
It's such an amazing story already.
Yeah.
So we are at Coleshill House.
Near Swindon, the headquarters of the auxiliary units.
Yeah, so we're here.
This was the headquarters of the auxiliary unit.
So this is where the guys from these patrols all around the country would come and train and learn how to assassinate people and blow things up.
and destroy tanks and railway tracks.
Unfortunately, the house burnt down, the main house burnt down, but there's still loads of stuff to see.
So we're going to have a little wander around.
The house burnt down in the 1950s, yeah.
It was owned by two sisters who stayed here for the duration.
They had two dogs.
They're a bit batty.
They fed their dogs like paracetamol and whiskey to keep them calm because obviously there's loads of explosions happening all the time.
I know the feeling.
I like it.
I like it.
But I'm sorry.