56 Post Appleby

Post History…

Opened May 1939 Y.676199, 29/V.3; 22/o.3 Nov 1953;

resite to Y.674199 May 1956;

U/G May 1960, 33/K.2 Oct 1968;

22/56 at Stand Down.

The crew of the WW2 Appleby post. [Photo from Appleby-in-Westmorland Society]

L-R Back Row: Harry Alderson (Inn keeper), L.S. Chapman (Headmaster), Bill Scorer (Solicitor), Percy Fawcett (Shopkeeper), ?, ?, Wilf Chatterly (Iron monger), ?

Front Row: Billy Welsh (Cobbler), Tom Percival (Water bailiff), John Metcalfe SEABORNE (Shop assistant), GS Evans (Newsagent), Mr Knight (Grammar school teacher), ? (info provided by David Shaw)

Personnel At Stand Down…

C/Obs D. Atkinson
L/Obs D. Shaw
Obs K. Bousfield
Obs J. Coward
W/Obs J. Heal
W/Obs H. Stephenson

[Other Personnel prior to Stand Down]

Observers that left between 1984 & Stand Down include…

C/Obs T. Bateson
L/Obs A. Allinson
Obs A. Collinson

56 Post Observers prior to 1984 include…

Sylvie Thompson
Paul Naisbitt
Keith Bainbridge
Tom Northgraves
Harold Little
Bill Kelly

[information provided by David Atkinson and David Shaw]


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