Organisations

East Hill, Ashford, Kent TN24 8PB www.ashfordschool.co.uk Author’s first school
Media Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TQ www.bbcworldwide.com Archive radio & TV material
Threadneedle Street, London EC2R 8AH www.bankofengland.co.uk 1979 Dollar/Sterling exchange rate 
Dartmouth, Devon TQ6 0HJ

www.royalnavy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/
establishments/training-establishments/brnc-dartmouth

Lord Mountbatten officiating at Passing Out Parades
Building 387 (E121), Heathrow Airport, Hounslow, Middlesex TW6 2JA www.bamuseum.com Flight schedules and aircraft used in the 1970s
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB www.bl.uk Reference material
Southampton University www.southampton.ac.uk/archives Palmerston and Mountbatten Archives, and history of Broadlands
70 Whitehall, London SW1A 2AS www.archive.cabinetoffice.gov.uk Archive government documents
PO Box 559, Dame Street, Dublin 2 www.centralbank.ie Financial assessments of the 1970s
Skehard Road, Cork, Ireland www.cso.ie Carpenters wages in the 1970s
University of Cambridge, Laundress Road, Cambridge CB2 1SD www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk Memoir of Iris Portal ‘Song at Seventy’
Sessions House, County Hall, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1XQ www.kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/archives-and-
local-history/archive-centres/centre-for-kentish-studies
Knatchbull & Brabourne family archives
200 West Madison Street, Suite 1700, Chicago, Illinois  60606  www.winstonchurchill.org Sir Winston Churchill archives
Clive Steps, King Charles St, London SW1A 2AQ www.iwm.org.uk Sir Winston Churchill archives
Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London SW1E 6HQ www.theguardsmuseum.com Army record of the 7th Lord Brabourne
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001   www.usdoj.gov NORAID’s income 1971-1989
Harbour Square, Derry BT48 6AF, Northern Ireland www.derrycity.gov.uk/museums/harbour Visit by HMS Kelly during the Second World War
RNAS Yeovilton, Ilchester, Somerset BA22 8HT www.fleetairarm.com 1979 flight records 
King Charles Street, London SW1A 2AH www.fco.gov.uk Assistance of the British Embassy in Ireland 
Garda Headquarters, Phoenix Park, Dubin 8 www.garda.ie 1979 investigating officers and archive records
Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London SW1E 6HQ www.theguardsmuseum.com Army record of the 6th Lord Brabourne
Duffus, Elgin, IV30 5RF, Scotland www.gordonstoun.org.uk Author’s education 1978-1981
Duxford, Cambridgeshire CB22 4QR www.iwm.org.uk War Crimes Investigation into the death of 6th Lord Brabourne (Norton)
15-24 Phoenix Street North, Smithfield, Dublin 7 www.courts.ie Documents relating to the trial of Thomas McMahon
18/20 Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland www.nursingboard.ie Nursing staff archives
Ballinalee Road, Longford, County Longford, Ireland www.irishprisons.ie Archive records, official enquiries & release of prisoners  
PO Box 74, 24-28 Tara Street, Dublin 2 www.irishtimes.com Archive news reports and photographs
Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7JU www.lambethpalacelibrary.org Funeral address by Archbishop Coggan 
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU www.romansociety.org/library Classical language consultancy
17 Donegal Square North, Belfast BT1 5GB www.linenhall.com Archive documents relating to ‘The Troubles’ 1968-1998
39 Wellington Street, London WC2E 7BB www.ltmuseum.co.uk The ‘Bus Drivers Prayer’
59 Tranquil Vale, Blackheath, London SE3 0BS www.maryevans.com Archive photographs
Fitzroy Road, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/library  Historical weather reports
New Scotland Yard, 10 Broadway, London SW1H 0BG www.met.police.uk/doi Archive records
Cordwallis Street, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 7GF  www.macgregor.co.uk Information on their 1970s radio controlled systems 
Bishop Street, Dublin 8 www.nationalarchives.ie Archive records
Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU  www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Archive records
Kildare Street, Dublin 2 www.nli.ie Reference material
Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi www.nehrumemorial.com Transcript of a 1948 speech by Jawaharlal Nehru
90 North King Street, Smithfield, Dublin 7 www.dppireland.ie 1979 court exhibits
St John’s Gate, London EC1M 4DA www.sja.org.uk Archive records
Grahame Park Way, London NW9 5LL www.rafmuseum.org.uk Archive of 1979 air transport movements
West End Road, Ruislip, Middlesex HA4 6NG www.raf.mod.uk/rafnortholt Archive records of arrival of survivors in 1979
20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA www.randomhouse.co.uk Permissions to use literary extracts
274 Grosvenor Road, Belfast BT12 6BA www.belfasttrust.hscni.net 1979 archives
Donnybrook, Dublin 4 www.rte.ie/laweb Archive TV material 
Stephens Mews, Stephen Street, Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/Coroner_details Inquest records
The Mall, Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland www.sgh.ie Archive material 
Westward Town Centre, Bridge Street, Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland www.sligolibrary.ie Archive newspaper reports & local publications
Connacht House, Markievicz Road, Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland www.sligochampion.ie Archive photographs
St Patricks Close, Dublin 8 www.stpatrickscathedral.ie Archive documents of Memorial Service
Fire Brigade Training Centre, Malahide Road, Marino, Dublin 3 www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/State_Pathologist’s_Office Archive documents 
Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Tipperlinn Road, Edinburgh EH10 5HF www.ukpts.co.uk Trauma therapy available in 1979
Hartley Library, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/ Broadlands Archive (Palmerston and Mountbatten papers)
East Cloister, London SW1P 3PA www.westminster-abbey.org/library-research Archive documents on Mountbatten memorial plaque

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