The Cold War context of the post 2WWar continued existence of Tonfanau & Morfa camps

[QuentinDeakin]

At the February 2022 meeting:
...a members and local residents follow-up to last month’s talkon the history of Tonfanau... with an emphasis on the Cold War period. Members Gill Ray and Richard Stoner presented accounts of their experiences in the forces at different times in the Cold War. During the latter half of the 1970’s Gill had spent four years from the age of nineteen as a WREN working as a radio operative. This took her to Faslane in Scotland, a prime location of British naval nuclear capability. Her insightful talk was enlivened with fascinating details of training and personal anecdotes and was illustrated by her personal photographic archive. She displayed her uniform, which still fits! Richard’s experience was in 1957 when he served, at the age of seventeen, in the RAF. During his training he participated in a challenging exercise in the Harz mountains at a crucial point of the border between East and West post-war occupied Germany – a stirring story evoking the atmosphere not only of the Cold War but also of the era of the Second World War.