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This is the reason why the WW2 website is so important. Len put memories on the site (Doodle Bugs) but died on 26th July 2005. His obit stated that he was the last Head Proof Reader of the Daily Telegraph in Fleet St., thrown out in 1987. But he began as a messenger at the Times at 14 years of age in 1942. Went to Buckingham Palace, St. James and the Houses of Parliament (using the secret passage) to collect Circulars and copy. Of course when the men came back from the War he lost this job but stayed in Print for the rest of his life. Len's Mother had six brothers all in Print so as with the dockers, family ties helped. He was evacuated to Trotton, Sussex and then Northampton and was in the first draft of National Service in 1947.
His wife, surviving sister and his three sons are very pleased that his name will live on in this Archive. Archaeologists in future will not have to guess how people lived in the 1940's.