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SCU - Tattenhoe Camp |
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Around June, 1944, all the personnel from the surrounding sites were moved from their civilian billets to a new camp at Tattenhoe. This had the provision of a single dining room for all ranks and this and the cookhouse were operated by A.T.S. girls under Sergeant Steadman. Three meals a day were prepared plus haversack rations for shift workers. At the camp, each accommodation hut had a central corridor and cubicles either side, about ten feet square. On three sides were solid walls with an entrance covered by a black curtain. A single iron bedstead was provided with a straw mattress and also in each room was a wardrobe cupboard, made from rough-sawn elm boards. Tubular electric strips initially provided the heating but later this was superseded by a steam system, fed from a large solid fuelled boiler. |
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Site of Tattenhoe Camp today. At junction of Whaddon Way and Buckingham Road in Far Bletchley |
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'Nobby' tended this apparatus and amongst his other duties he was also the barman and dispensed the N.A.A.F.I. cigarette and chocolate rations. The camp afforded much more of a social life with a bar, games room and reading room. |
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drop, picking up the nightshift and then returning to Tattenhoe. The same procedure would be applied to Potsgrove and never once, in all weathers, did the transport system fail. |
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Pictured left, An Austin Tilley |
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