25-07-2017 11:25 via croydonadvertiser.co.uk

The 'secret school' in Coulsdon that was a target for Soviet...

A few short years after the Second World War, the British armed forces had a problem. The new "enemy" in the rapidly escalating Cold War was the Soviet Union.That problem, though, was that barely anyone could speak Russian. And part of the solution was set up on a quiet military camp right next to Old Coulsdon.If the intelligence wings of the various armed forces, the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force, were going to be able to decode Russian messages, or even have enough trained...
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