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No More Secrets
Betty Webb


Granny Brown holding my sister Margaret and me in the garden at Ryecroft, 1920s.

Betty taking in the view from the front garden at Ryecroft, mid-1930s.

With Elisabeth Paul outside her flat in Herrnhut, Germany, during my three-month stay with her family in 1937.

Outside Mr & Mrs Paul’s flat in Herrnhut, Germany, 1937.

In Weston-super-Mare in the 1930s with my father, Leslie Vine-Stevens, and Margaret, my sister.

With my first boyfriend Otto Stoetzer, Summer 1938.

Under the wild cherry tree in the garden of Ryecroft with my mother and sister, Margaret.

In uniform at the end of the war, 1945.

My friend Helen Little
(née Colebrook), who served in the ATS within No. 6 Intelligence Service at Bletchley Park.
(née Colebrook), who served in the ATS within No. 6 Intelligence Service at Bletchley Park.

Me in 1941.

With Barbara Brown outside our billet at Salisbury House, Loughton, April 1943.

A telegram I sent to my father from Bletchley, circa 1942-45.

A new and expensive hair-do before leaving for Washington, DC, 1945.

Out shopping in Washington, DC, 1945.

Margaret Julia Mary Lydekker, known as Julia, worked at Bletchley Park from 1940 and served in Washington, DC, from 1945 where we met and became friends.

Walking down the street with
my colleague, John Burrows, in Washington, DC, 1945. We worked together in Bletchley Park’s Japanese Military Section before our posting to the U.S.
my colleague, John Burrows, in Washington, DC, 1945. We worked together in Bletchley Park’s Japanese Military Section before our posting to the U.S.

A letter I wrote to my mother on 22 August 1945 from Washington, DC.



Studying at secretarial college in London, 1947.

With my father and mother, 1947.

Sitting in the back garden at Ryecroft with my mother and our Agapanthus plants.

In the garden at Ryecroft with my mother and Jet, circa 1950s.

On stage (seated on right-hand side) with the Deeside Orpheus Music Society for the production of ‘The Desert Song’, October 1954.
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