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Having been born in 1926 in a small village in South Oxfordshire the 1939/45 war became a great influence on my growing up. Until 1931, when electricity was supplied to parts of the village, living conditions were much as they had been for centuries with no mains water, no sewerage system and no gas supply. There was one public telephone box and only a few larger houses had a telephone.

My father, a skilled carpenter, had served from 1915 to 1919 as an aircraft fitter in The Royal Naval Air Service (later the RAF) at an airbase in Crete. On returning he had become interested in listening to radio broadcasts through constructing crystal and later valve radio sets.

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