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The Mirus Battery
Edited Transcript of Margaret Le Cras interviewing Mrs Evelyn Bryce

Evelyn Bryce. I was going to tell you. We went to see, when they were building up at the Mirus, we used to go and watch them, because we lived not far from there, and we walked up there, and we would stand around and see what they were doing.
I………. Would there have been a lot of people working on it?
Evelyn Bryce. Yes, slave labour.
I………. how many? Twenty? Fifty? Hundred?
Evelyn Bryce. I don’t know about a hundred. Up to fifty, I should think. And it was a huge hole, and there’s these steel rods, and you’d see them on the lorries, trailing along the roads, it was deafening, the great big tyres of the lorries, [A clock chiming nine in the background]but when they were testing the guns, they had to come out of the houses during the night, and leave the doors and windows open, so we had to go and sleep somewhere else, terrible noise.

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