Charles Trevelyan and his wife Angela (Gareth Tarr).
Concorde air-hostess and during their visit to Brooklands they managed to visit our aircraft. He owns a Type 37A which he bought from a lady in the North East on condition that he never sold the car – she wanted to ensure it went to a good home and did not want to sell to a local motor
trader who offered more money. Charles also owns the Aston Martin Ulster that Granny Rachael refused to let his mother buy. It was bought by Charles’s best friend who bequeathed it to Charles on his death.
Gareth Tarr BTM TALK –‘SISTERS IN SPITFIRES’
Some of Helen Mills’ memorabilia (Gareth Tarr).
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ou have no doubt seen film of a World War Two Operations Room with a large table showing a map of south east England and a team of ladies with long sticks pushing markers round to show the location of the various aircraft as the RAF battled the Luftwaffe. “Not true”, explained Brooklands Trust Member Helen Mills, who
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entertained the audience at the May lunch talk ‘Sisters in Spitfires’.
Helen was one of those plotters and, as she explained, if you had that many people around the table they would have been in each other’s way! The films were for PR purposes – a simple example of how fiction can become fact and how
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