Andy Chatterton
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So there's two things there.
There's no women in the auxiliary units and there was no auxiliary units in Leeds.
So we knew something was going on.
So we talked to her about Section 7.
And then it seems that on her deathbed, her mother, Irene, called her in and said, I've got something to tell you.
Jennifer thought she was going to be told that she was adopted or something.
But actually, her mother said that she was part of a secret resistance cell in a village near Leeds.
She was in a cell with her father, her uncle and her two cousins.
They're based in a cave, and she was taught how to use, as I said, Molotov cocktails, how to use the garotte, how to derail trains, how to make the occupying forces' lives an absolute nightmare.
Now, her daughter, Jennifer, thought she might be losing it a bit in her final days.
But then when we started talking to her about Section 7, some stories from her childhood started to make sense.
She remembers in the 50s, standing in her hallway as a pots and pans salesman had come to the door and her mother had opened the door and the salesman was quite aggressive in his sales patter and put his foot in the door to stop Irene shutting it.
The next thing that Jennifer remembers is the pots and pans salesman sailing through the air.
pots and pans tumbling everywhere, because now she can see that her mother had performed like an unarmed combat move on this guy.
And Jennifer's saying it's so out of character for her mother.
This memory, it's just stuck with her because, you know, her mother was a, wouldn't say boo to a goose type of lady.
But suddenly this chap was flying through the air.