Andrew Chatterton
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Not since I've been doing it, no.
But we know... So, for example, between Exeter and Plymouth, widening the road up near the racecourse,
yeah you know and widening the road up the top of the hill there and um in the 70s i think and this old guy was running up this really steep hill saying stop digging because they're about to go through the roof of this operational base and it was stacked full of explosives still stacked full of explosives
An old patrol map.
So one of the guys who had been in the patrol during the Second World War... Flipping hell!
He's like, they're getting near that base.
I'm going to have to go and tell... Shit!
So I can give you... So lots of these guys at the end of the war just basically shut up their bunkers and then went back to their own lives and tell anyone they had...
like the army was meant to come round and destroy the bunkers, but obviously the very nature of them meant that they couldn't find them.
They're also meant to destroy all the leftover ammo and stuff.
But I've got, if you've got two sets, so there's a guy called Reg Sinnott in Essex.
He was a group commander.
So he's in charge of kind of four or five patrols.
So he would have been on the list as well.
He was in charge of four or five patrols.
And in the 60s, he phoned up the police and said, I've got one or two bits left over from the war in my, well, I think a bit bigger than a shed, maybe a barn.
Can you come and collect them?
I was expecting the army to come and collect them.