Andy Chatterton

And the whole point of SIS recruiting women is basically the mistake that the pots and pan salesman had made, that he does not suspect that,

a shy retiring housewife to be able to do that.

And that's exactly why they recruited people like Jennifer.

They also recruited a lady called Priscilla Ross from Hornchurch.

Now, Priscilla said that very similar things to Jennifer and obviously in a very separate part of the country, Hornchurch in Essex.

She was taught how to make Molotov cocktails, how to garrot, how to derail trains, how to assassinate German officers.

Her base was under a church in Horn Church with a tombstone that if you moved the top, kind of swiveled over and revealed an entrance underneath the church.

So I've been in touch with the church in Hornchurch and had, from their perspective, a weird conversation about whether they had any moving tombstones in their graveyard, which they did not.

But they did say that they just found a space under the church, which they had not known about, and they couldn't find an entrance.

So something else for us to maybe go and look at.

Correct.

Absolutely.

So, for example, Peter Atwater in Matlock knew of two other cells near him in Matlock.

So potentially this could be absolutely huge.

And they didn't really even know who they were working for.

So at the end of the war, Peter was part of the local history society and he told his story and had started to read about the auxiliary units and presumed that's what he was in.

And in fact, to the extent that there's the blue plaque above what was the draper's shop saying this was a auxiliary unit's radio cell, but it wasn't.

So Peter didn't know what he was in at all.

That's how secret is.

The people who are in it didn't even know what they're in.