Index

Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge ref1

Air Ministry 169 (see also War Office)

Alexandra, Princess of Wales ref1

Alfred, Lord Tennyson ref1

Allen, Prof. John ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

American cruise missiles ref1

Ames, Clemency ref1

Anderson, Rudolf ref1

Andreyev, Anatoly ref1, ref2, ref3

Anglo-Saxon farmsteads ref1

Arkhipov, Vasili ref1, ref2, ref3

asbestos ref1, ref2

Astaire, Fred ref1

Astute, HMS ref1, ref2

Atomic Weapons Research Establishment – Archaeological Survey and Investigation ref1

Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 (see also nuclear weapons)

A. V. Roe factory ref1

Avro Vulcan bombers ref1

Bacall, Lauren ref1

Bairsto, Lynne ref1

Balaclava, Battle of ref1

The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Wilde) ref1

Bamji, Andrew ref1, ref2

Barfield, Julia ref1

Barnardo, Dr Thomas John ref1, ref2

Barnardo’s ref1, ref2

Barton, Les ref1, ref2

Barton, Michael ref1, ref2, ref3

Battle of Britain ref1, ref2

Bawdsey ref1

Bazalgette, Joseph ref1

Beatles ref1

at New Vic ref1

Bell, Mary ref1

Belvoir Castle ref1

Bennett, Alan ref1

Berriff, Paul ref1

Berry, Sir Anthony ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Berry, Jo ref1, ref2

Berry, Mike ref1 passim

Berry, Sarah ref1

Bill Haley and His Comets ref1

Birch, Eugenius ref1

Bird, Graham ref1

Bismarck ref1

Blackadder ref1

Bletchley Park ref1

Blighty wound ref1

Bloody Sunday Inquiry ref1

Blue Danube, as bomb’s name ref1, ref2, ref3

Boardman, Michael ref1

bodysnatchers ref1

Bogart, Humphrey ref1

Bonner, Linda ref1

Bonner, Robert Jr (‘Bob’) ref1, ref2

Bonner, Robert Sr ref1

Booth, Charles ref1

Bradford:

bombing raid on ref1

in Industrial Revolution ref1

municipal buildings in ref1

New Vic in, see New Victoria Cinema, Bradford

Bradford Live ref1

Brady, Ian ref1

Brick Lane, London ref1

Brighthelmstone ref1, ref2

Brighton:

Chain Pier in ref1

cholera in ref1, ref2, ref3

dire state of public health in ref1

Grand Hotel in, see Grand Hotel, Brighton

large conference hall in ref1

Old Steine Gardens in ref1, ref2

Palace Pier in ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

pictorial guide to ref1

and Punch and Judy shows ref1

railway system arrives in ref1, ref2

Regency houses in ref1

Saltdean Lido in ref1

West Pier in, see West Pier, Brighton

Brighton Pavilion ref1

Brighton Rock (Greene) ref1

Brighton sewerage system ref1, ref2, ref3

cost and construction of ref1

miles of ref1

Brighton Swimming Club ref1

British Airways ref1

Bromham, Wiltshire ref1

Bronson, Charles ref1

Bronze Age settlements ref1

Bryl, Felix ref1, ref2

Building Bridges for Peace ref1

Bulger, James ref1

bungaroush ref1

Butley Orford Oysterage ref1

Caernarfon ref1

Cambridge Military Hospital ref1, ref2, ref3

appearance of ref1

asbestos in walls of ref1, ref2

closure of ref1

grandeur of ref1

naming of ref1

Cambridge nuclear bunker ref1, ref2 (see also nuclear weapons)

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) ref1

Cannes Film Festival ref1

Carrington, Lord ref1

Carroll, Lewis ref1

Chain Home ref1

Chamberlain, Neville ref1

Chapman, Annie ref1

Chapman, George ref1

‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ (Tennyson) ref1

Charles II ref1

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ref1

cholera ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Churchill, Winston ref1, ref2, ref3

Civil Defence Staff College ref1

CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) ref1

Cobra Mist ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

closed ref1

and Cold War paranoia ref1

as Over The Horizon (OTH) radar system ref1

Cochran, Eddie ref1

Cold War ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

and cat-and-mouse games ref1

and Cobra Mist paranoia ref1

‘hotting up’ of ref1

and nuclear bunker, Cambridge, see Cambridge nuclear bunker

and submarines, see Foxtrot-class Submarine

UK’s defence policy during ref1

Cornwell, Patricia ref1

Cowell, Diana ref1

Cowell, Robert/Roberta ref1

Craven, Lee ref1

Cresy, Edward ref1

Crimean War ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

cruise missiles ref1

Cuban Missile Crisis ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

painful truths revealed by ref1

D-Day ref1, ref2, ref3

Daily Express ref1

Daily Mail ref1

Daily Mirror ref1

Dambusters Raid ref1

Danger! Official Secret RSG-6 (Spies for Peace) ref1

Darlington, Roger ref1, ref2, ref3

Davis, Fred ref1, ref2

Dennis fire engines ref1, ref2

Diana, Princess of Wales ref1

Dillon, Laura/Michael ref1, ref2

Dinenage, Fred ref1

Directorate of Army Welfare ref1

Dirty Dozen (Nathanson) ref1

Disney, Francis ref1

Dr Strangelove ref1

Domesday Books ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Downey, Lesley Ann ref1

Drake (née Boardman), Anne ref1

Dylan, Bob ref1

Eddowes, Catherine ref1, ref2, ref3

Edwards, Glyn ref1

Eisenhower, Dwight D. ref1

‘Elephant Man’ (Joseph Merrick) ref1, ref2, ref3

passim, ref1

death of ref1

Elizabeth II ref1

Emergency Powers Act ref1

The End of History and the Last Man (Fukuyama) ref1

English Heritage ref1

epidemiology ref1

Fallex 62 war game ref1, ref2

Ferry, Dr Kathryn ref1

firemen’s uniforms ref1

First Gulf War ref1

Flash Gordon ref1

Fowler, Louise ref1

Foxtrot-class submarine ref1

Frere, Sir Toby ref1

Fukuyama, Francis ref1

Gaffney, Gloria ref1

Gaumont, Bradford, see New Victoria Cinema, Bradford

gender reassignment ref1

George, Prince, Duke of Cambridge ref1

George, Prince of Wales ref1

Gilbert, Albert ref1

Gillies, Dr Sir Harold ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Goldman, Leonard ref1

Gomm, Francis Carr ref1

Good Friday Agreement ref1

Gove, Michael ref1

Grand Hotel, Brighton ref1, ref2

Conservatives’ conference at ref1, ref2

early lifts installed in ref1

opening of ref1

reopening of ref1

sturdy Victorian construction of ref1

terrorist bomb attack at ref1, ref2

Gray, Dr Drew ref1

Great Fire of London ref1

Great Stink ref1

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service Pipe Band ref1

Greene, Graham ref1, ref2

Greenham Common ref1, ref2

Grenfell Tower ref1, ref2

Grigson, Geoffrey ref1

Grimaldi, Karen ref1

Guinea Pig Club ref1

Gulf War, first ref1

Gunn, John ‘Ben’ ref1, ref2, ref3

academic degrees achieved by, in prison ref1

freed from prison ref1

on friend’s death ref1

Guy’s Hospital, Southwark ref1

H-bomb ref1 (see also nuclear weapons)

Haley, Bill ref1

Hanson, Dion ref1

Harrison, George ref1

Hawks, Howard ref1

Hawkshaw, John ref1

Head, John ref1

‘From hell’ letter ref1 (see also Jack the Ripper)

Hendrix, Jimi ref1

Henry, Leroy ref1

Herbert Hospital, London ref1

Herbert, Sidney ref1

Herbie Rides Again ref1

Hindley, Myra ref1

Hiroshima ref1 (see also nuclear weapons)

Hitler, Adolf ref1

Hockney, David ref1, ref2

Holly, Buddy ref1, ref2

Hood, HMS ref1

Hôtel des Invalides ref1

Howard, John ref1

Howard League for Penal Reform ref1

Hug the Odeon event ref1 (see also New Victoria Cinema, Bradford)

Hurricanes ref1, ref2

Imber Court ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Imber, Wiltshire ref1, ref2 (see also Salisbury Plain)

abolition of parish name of ref1

age of ref1

evacuated ref1

exercise at, to show RAF

firepower ref1

‘Imemerie’ spelling of ref1

military takes over school at ref1

mournful feel of ref1

newsreel concerning ref1

population of ref1

protest rally in ref1

training area at ref1, ref2

War Office statement concerning ref1

warning signs concerning ref1

wartime damage to buildings in ref1

wartime everyday life in ref1

Industrial Revolution ref1

In My Life (Johnson) ref1

In Which We Serve ref1

Ipswich Star ref1

Irish Republican Army, and Brighton bombing, see Grand Hotel, Brighton

Iron Age hill forts ref1

i360 observation tower ref1

Jack the Ripper ref1, ref2

books and films about ref1

Jantzen swimsuit ref1

The Jazz Singer ref1

‘Jim Crow’ segregation laws ref1

John, King ref1

Johnson, Alan ref1

Johnson, David ref1

Johnson, Harold ref1, ref2

Junor, Beth ref1, ref2

Jutland, Battle of ref1

Kay, Col. Alan ref1

Kelly, Gene ref1

Kelly, Mary Jane ref1, ref2, ref3

Kennedy, John F. ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

KGB ref1

Khrushchev, Nikita ref1, ref2, ref3

King, Cecil ref1

Kłosowski, Seweryn (a.k.a. George Chapman) ref1

Kray, Reggie ref1, ref2, ref3

Kray, Ronnie ref1, ref2, ref3

Kubrick, Stanley ref1

‘Laboratory 3’ ref1

Lancaster bombers ref1

Lancet ref1, ref2

Lawson, Nigel ref1

Lennon, John ref1

Lewis, Ann ref1, ref2

Lewis, Gordon ref1

Lindley, Peter ref1

London Air Ambulance ref1, ref2

London Hospital Medical

College ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

London Hospital Pathology Museum ref1

London, Jack ref1, ref2

London Road Fire Station ref1, ref2

control-room operators in ref1

decommissioning of ref1, ref2

‘fire mark’ (plaque) on ref1

hose tower in ref1

interior of ref1

plans for changes to ref1

and psychological damage ref1

shape of ref1

significance of ref1

and Woolworth store fire ref1

Louis XIV ref1

Lückes, Eva ref1

Luftwaffe ref1, ref2, ref3

Lumley, Henry Ralph ref1

Lusk, George ref1

McCartney, Paul ref1

McClachlan, Flt Sgt William ref1

McCormack, John ref1

McIndoe, Archibald ref1, ref2

Macmillan, Harold ref1, ref2

Madigan, Richard ref1, ref2

Magee, Patrick ref1, ref2, ref3

release of ref1

Magna Carta ref1

Major, John ref1, ref2

Manchester firefighters ref1

Manchester Piccadilly railway station ref1

Mandela, Nelson ref1

Marvin, Lee ref1

Mead, Geoffrey ref1

Merrick, Joseph (‘Elephant Man’) ref1, ref2, ref3 passim, ref3

death of ref1

Metropolitan Board of Works ref1

miasmas ref1

Middlesex Hospital, London ref1

Miller, Paul ref1

Ministry of Agriculture ref1

Mons, Battle of ref1

Monte Bello Islands ref1

Moors Murderers ref1

Moss Side Riots ref1, ref2

Mulcahy, Alastair ref1

Mungovin, Joanne ref1, ref2, ref3

Murder Act ref1

Museum of London ref1

Nagasaki ref1 (see also nuclear weapons)

Nash, Albert ref1, ref2, ref3

Nash, Martha ref1

Nathanson, E. M. ref1

National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP) ref1

National Health Service ref1, ref2, ref3

National Physical Laboratory ref1

National Trust ref1

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) ref1, ref2, ref3

and Fallex 62 war game ref1, ref2

Foxtrot designation by ref1 (see also Foxtrot-class submarine)

Neolithic burial mounds ref1

Nevada Desert ref1

New Victoria Cinema, Bradford ref1, ref2, ref3

ballroom in ref1, ref2

closure of ref1

Hug the Odeon event for ref1

multi-purpose design of ref1

name change of, to Gaumont ref1

newsreels shown in ref1

projection equipment in ref1

ruined beauty of ref1

seat prices in ref1

stars who played at ref1

Newfoundland ref1

Nichols, Mary Ann ref1, ref2

Nicholson, Mark ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Nightingale, Florence ref1, ref2, ref3

Nightingale Plan ref1

Niland, Stephen ref1

Norman, Tom ref1

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ref1, ref2, ref3

and Fallex 62 war game ref1, ref2

Foxtrot designation by ref1 (see also Foxtrot-class submarine)

Northern Ireland Troubles ref1

Noyes, Ella ref1

nuclear bunker, Cambridge ref1, ref2

nuclear weapons ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 (see also Cold War)

and Cambridge bunker ref1, ref2

and CND ref1

H-bomb ref1

and ‘Laboratory 3’ ref1

and Nagasaki and Hiroshima ref1

and ‘shake, rattle and roll’ ref1

testing of ref1

three top countries in ref1

torpedoes ref1

and Woman’s Peace Camp ref1

Official Secrets Act ref1, ref2, ref3

Oh! What a Lovely War ref1

Old Steine Gardens ref1, ref2

(see also Brighton)

Openshaw, Dr Thomas ref1

Operation Overlord ref1

Ordnance Survey Explorer ref1

O’Reilly, Mark ref1

Orford Ness ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

and classified military research and testing ref1

dummy bombs dropped over ref1, ref2

and Ordnance Survey Explorer ref1

and Pagodas ref1

seen as UK’s ‘Area 51’ ref1

and ‘Unexploded ordnance’ signs ref1

and Vibration Test Buildings ref1

village gateway to ref1

weird landscape of ref1

Orford village ref1, ref2, ref3

Orrell, Jon ref1

Osgood, Richard ref1

Over The Horizon (OTH) radar system ref1

Paget, Jane ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Pagodas (Vibration Test Buildings) ref1, ref2 (see also nuclear weapons)

Parole Board ref1

Pathé News ref1

Pathology Museum, London Hospital ref1

The People of the Abyss (London) ref1

Pepys, Samuel ref1

Pestle, Barrie ref1 passim

Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus ref1

‘Phantom Bugle’ military exercise ref1, ref2

A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Brighton and Hove ref1

Picture Post ref1

Pincher, Chapman ref1

Pink Floyd ref1

Plato ref1

‘poverty map’ of London ref1

Provisional IRA, and Brighton bombing, see Grand Hotel, Brighton

Public Record Office ref1

Punch and Judy shows ref1

Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton ref1

Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup ref1

Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead ref1, ref2

Radio Direction Finding (RDF) ref1

radiodermatitis ref1

RAF Coningsby ref1

Range and Direction Finding (RDF) ref1

Rebbeck, Dolly ref1, ref2

Red Beard, as bomb’s name ref1

Red Cross ref1

Reed, Francis ref1

Regal Billiard Hall ref1

Regional Seats of Government (RSGs) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Rendlesham Forest ref1

‘Resurrectionists’ (bodysnatchers) ref1

Richardson, Charlie ref1

Ring ref1

River Medway ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Rochester Castle ref1

Rogers, Ginger ref1

Rogers, Roy ref1

Rolling Stones ref1

Röntgen, Prof. Wilhelm ref1

Rookery Nook ref1

Royal Army Medical Corps ref1

Russian connection in ref1

Royal Commission on the Health of the Army ref1

Royal Hospital, Chelsea ref1

Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh ref1

Royal Irish Hussars ref1

Royal London Hospital ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

age of ref1

anatomical demonstrations at ref1

as block of old brick buildings ref1

closure of ref1

medical breakthroughs at ref1

and Merrick (‘Elephant Man’) ref1

original name of ref1

photographs found in ref1

and principle of free healthcare ref1

relocation of ref1

remains found in ref1

and Ripper killings ref1

School of Nursing at ref1

surgeons’ instruments used in ref1

as UK’s largest charitably funded hospital ref1

and x-rays ref1

Royal London Hospital Museum ref1

RSGs (Regional Seats of Government) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Russell, Dr Richard ref1

Salisbury Plain ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

and Imber, see Imber, Wiltshire

SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) ref1

Saltdean Lido, Brighton ref1

same-sex marriage ref1

Sansom, Mark ref1

Savitsky, Valentin ref1

Scutari ref1

Shapiro, Helen ref1

Shepherd, Dr Richard ref1, ref2

Shepton Mallet Prison ref1, ref2 passim

change of use for ref1

closure of ref1

compiled history of ref1

gallows in ref1

and Gunn, see Gunn, John ‘Ben’

Gunn’s blog on ref1

Gunn’s old cell in ref1 (see also Gunn, John ‘Ben’)

‘house of correction’ cell within ref1

inside appearances of ref1

modern annexe in ref1

and Nathanson novel ref1

old signage of ref1

prisoner category in ref1

suicides in ref1

UK’s national documents stored in ref1

US soldiers executed in ref1 (see also Henry, Leroy)

US soldiers detained in ref1, ref2

women’s part of (C Wing) ref1

Shepton Mallet town ref1

Shooter-Redfearn, Harriet ref1

Sickert, Walter ref1

Siebert, Rod ref1

Singin’ in the Rain ref1

Skelton, Roy ref1

Slark, Stuart ref1

Smart, Sam ref1

Snow, Dr John ref1, ref2

death of ref1

Southern Water ref1

Soviet Baltic fleet ref1 (see also Soviet Foxtrot-class submarine)

Soviet Foxtrot-class submarine ref1

Soviet Union ref1, ref2, ref3

close to nuclear war ref1

collapse of ref1

Spielberg, Steven ref1, ref2

Spies for Peace ref1

Spitfires ref1, ref2, ref3

The Stabbing of Boris – A Fantasy ref1

Star Wars ref1

Starling, Pete ref1

Starr, Ringo ref1

Stevenson, Robert Louis ref1

Stirling bombers ref1

Stonehenge ref1

Stony Ditch ref1

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) ref1

Strath Report ref1

Streisand, Barbra ref1

Stride, Elizabeth ref1

Taylor, Richard ref1

Tebbit, Margaret ref1, ref2

Tebbit, Norman ref1, ref2

Thackeray, William Makepeace ref1

Thames, ‘Great Stink’ from ref1

Thatcher, Margaret ref1, ref2

Things We Forgot to Remember ref1

Thomas, Dr Adrian ref1

Thompson, Robert ref1

Thorne, Lt Col. A. P. ref1, ref2

Times ref1, ref2

To Have and Have Not ref1

Top Hat ref1

Tower Hamlets, London ref1

Transactions of the Pathological Society of London ref1

Treasure Island (Stevenson) ref1

Treves, Dr Frederick ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Troubles, Northern Ireland ref1

2001: A Space Odyssey ref1

UFOs ref1

UN Security Council ref1

Underwood, Austin ref1, ref2

United States Air Force ref1

University of Cambridge ref1

USA (Visiting Forces) Act ref1

Varah, William ref1

Vassall, John ref1

Venables, Jon ref1

Venice Film Festival ref1

‘vertical omnibuses’ ref1

Vibration Test Buildings

(Pagodas) ref1, ref2 (see also nuclear weapons)

Vicarage, Able Seaman Willie ref1, ref2

Victoria, Queen ref1

Victory, HMS ref1

Vince, Doug ref1

Vincent, Gene ref1, ref2

Wagner, Richard ref1

Wainwright, Angus ref1

Wakeham, John ref1

Wakeham, Roberta ref1

Walter, Natasha ref1

War Office ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Warminster ref1

Watson-Watt, Dr Robert ref1

The Way to the Stars ref1

Wellesbourne Airfield ref1

Wells, Mary ref1

West, Wing Cdr Peter ref1, ref2

West Pier, Brighton ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

closure of ref1

evolving holiday habits reflected at ref1

and Oh! What a Lovely War ref1

opening of ref1

Western Front ref1

Whitechapel Gallery, London ref1

Whitechapel Vigilance Committee ref1

Wilde, Oscar ref1

Wilkins, Arnold ref1

William I, the Conqueror ref1

Williams, John ref1, ref2, ref3

Williams, Myfanwy ref1

Wilson, Ernest ref1

Wilson, Jim ref1

Woman’s Peace Camp, Greenham Common ref1

Wood, Dennis ref1

Woolworth store, Manchester ref1

Wren, Sir Christopher ref1

X-rays ref1

Yellow Sun, as bomb’s name ref1

Yentl ref1