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/ |
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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