Collection: Edith Hill Collection

Description

A collection of thirty-two negatives donated by Mrs Edith Hill (nee Davidson) and taken by her husband, Michael Henry Hill, in the 1940s and early 1950s. Until recently the photographs were wrongly attributed to Edith Hill.

Sites covered in the collection include the Five Bells in Stanbridge, Bedfordshire; The Church Rooms in Amersham, Buckinghamshire; The Rose and Crown in Colchester, Essex and Brentford High Street. A number of churches also feature in the collection, including Corhampton Church in Hampshire; St Andrew’s Church, West Tarring in Worthing; St Swithin’s Church in Nately Scures, Hampshire and St Peter and St Paul’s Church in Chaldon, Surrey.

Mrs Hill worked at Bletchley Park from August 1941 until October 1945 as a Temporary Junior Administrative Officer in the Air Section. Her work there included analysing decrypted signals with reference to POW reports and reports on German air defence activity. Whilst at Bletchley she married Michael Hill who was working on decrypting German teleprinter communications. Both are commemorated on the Bletchley Park Roll of Honour.

Twenty-five of the negatives in the collection have prints in the Red Box Collection. Two of these prints have been catalogued seperately.

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