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Andrew Chatterton

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Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

You'd then go in and the postmistress was a fairly elderly lady called Mabel Stranks.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

You'd then give Mabel a password like I'd like two first class stamps or whatever.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Probably not that because everyone does.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

But then she would then go out the back, phone up Coastal House and they'd send a truck around, collect these guys and then they'd drive a convoluted route back to Coastal House.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

By the time they arrived there

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

They wouldn't know where they were.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

But at Coleshill now, so that main house burnt down, unfortunately, in the 50s, suspiciously.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

But they've got some original training...

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

and they've done a mock-up bunker, which is just amazing.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So it's got one of these counterweight hatches, and you can go down the ladder through the... Oh, yeah.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

And the escape tunnel comes through a wall, which is rolled away.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

It's very cool.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Very, very cool.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

We should come down there, because we're really going to press the button.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Colesville House.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

National Trust, yeah.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

It is a family there.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

It's weird, isn't it?

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah, because, you know, it's very obvious, I would think, if you've got all these blokes turning up, going to the post office.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

There's a plaque outside what was the post office.