Andrew Chatterton
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I was about 42.
No, no, not at all.
So we're walking up.
So this would have been the route towards the house.
But what I'm going to do is we're going to go back on ourselves in a minute and we'll head towards the bunker.
So we're heading up towards where the house would have been.
But this is the... I'm puffed out.
Oh, what's this?
This is the guardhouse.
So when you're coming up here, this is the extra checks.
This is where the guards would have been as you'd come up.
Make sure there's no one infiltrating.
Here's what the house was.
It's got some of the auxiliar speaker on there.
So that was a local resident.
This is one of the sisters.
That's a quote from one of the sisters.
So this is, so at a time when the Home Guards had barely any weapons, because after Dunkirk, most of the weapons were left behind.
Churchill said, we got a bit of paperwork saying, all men in the auxiliary units must have revolvers.
And so they massively prioritised over the Home Guard.