Andrew Chatterton
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So... Wow.
If up... I mean, honestly, that screw would have needed tightening.
It would.
And also, this is a bit obvious that it's been turned.
So, that's the... That's the... And I don't remember...
So it was still in private hands.
After the war, it was handed back to the owners.
They then sold it.
And then the house burned down in the early 50s and went into National Trust.
And so it's been kind of known about.
It's only in the last 15 years or so that they've made something of it.
And actually, most of the local... If you ask in Highworth and Swindon, most people have no idea.
Absolutely no idea.
Right, so this is where... So the last runner would have the message written on a bit of rice paper about the Germans coming through Highworth, say.
They'd then drop it.
This is where the fake gate bolt would have been.
Fake gate bolt.
So what would happen... There would have been a hollow bolt in there and you could have pulled it out and then... The note would have gone in there, look.
In the last episode, you said he was going to be a collaborator anyway.
So for a German, you know that messages are being, or the information is being gathered and sent, right?