Andrew Chatterton

He would then take that information to a draper's shop.

So the key man in Matlock was a draper.

And out the back of the draper's shop in a fake alcove

um was a wireless set there were two women miss mrs swan and miss keys were the wireless set operators um there was a grenade with the pin stapled to the table so you could just grab so with a grenade you pull out the pin and then and then strike the pin was stable to the table so you could just pull out the grenade knob it behind you if the germans had seen you or use it to destroy your wireless set and yourself

These wireless sets were portable, so this is kind of ongoing resistance.

This isn't like special duty branch.

And they would then radio that information onto another control station or the guys in charge of Section 7, one of them was called Richard Gambier Parry,

who was in charge of Section 8, which was the communication section.

So he was all about really powerful wireless assets.

So we think that part of it would be a chain of this information, either going to an unoccupied zone.

So in France, there was the occupied bit of France, and then there was Vichy France, the bit...

the collaborator Pétain ran the bit the Germans went in because the Germans didn't have the manpower to occupy the whole of France at that stage.

We think probably that they thought the same would happen in Britain so there'd be an occupied zone and then an unoccupied zone.

We think that's probably it, Scotland might have been unoccupied.

So this information would carry on to the unoccupied zone and then go to Canada or something like that where there was a government in exile.

Peter was also, one of his roles was to find a stable or an outhouse where he could send or take enemies of the occupation.

So if you were a resistance fighter or if you'd done something against the German forces and they're after you,

the resistance could take them to the safe house or the safe stable and then pass them along a line of other escape lines and up to the unoccupied zone.

And Peter met, he was 14, right?

And he met other 14, 15 year olds in Birmingham who were part of this escape line that he would then pass them onto on the way up.