Fire Brigade

This is Pinner’s First Fire Engine and the fireman was a Mr Beaumont

Outstation Eastcote to GCHQ

The contribution of Bletchley Park to the War effort has emerged in recent years. Indeed, a recent reunion of people who worked there, some 75 in all, to record their oral histories will reveal yet more.

HMS Pembroke in Eastcote was just one of the outposts of Bletchley Park!

We have all passed the site in old Eastcote when going to Ruislip and the site evolved after the War to become GCHQ till 1954 when it moved to the new site in Cheltenham

The outpost was manned by both the RAF and WRENS and many were billeted in Pinner, in fact the now Pinner Hill Golf Club was the Officers Mess.

Many WRENS who were billeted in Pinner cycled to HMS Pembroke, also know as RAF Lime grove.

Ronald Koorm will reveal much more fascinating detail in his talk, including plans of the site and more on its use by other Government agencies after the September War.

September 2019