About the event:

In the summer of 1942, Farm Hall in Godmanchester was requisitioned by the RAF and became Station 61b, part of the Special Intelligence Service. Over the next three years, agents from almost every occupied country passed through the Hall on their way to an uncertain future. When, in the spring of 1945, agents were no longer being dropped ,the Hall was transformed into a ‘holding’ property for 10 German nuclear scientists, captured during the advance into Europe. Unbeknown to them, every room was ‘bugged’, even the garden. They stayed there until January 1946, never once suspecting that their every word was recorded.

About the speaker:

Roger Leivers moved to Godmanchester in 1989, and started doing World War I and World War II walks around the town, and then became a volunteer with the local museum. In 2012, he started work on his first book, Stirling to Essen, which covered the crew of a crashed short stirling bomber near his town. The book was published in 2017 and has now sold over 4,000 copies worldwide. Four years later, Godmanchester at War was published in hardback, with over 1,000 copies sold.

Along with other activities, this has enabled Roger to donate over £40,000 to a wide variety of causes in memory of the people who’s stories he tells. Book number 3 is in it’s planning stage!