Story of a Scarborough Wren

The book, A Wren’s Tale, is available at Waterstone's Scarborough and at the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre, or by calling 01737 221215. Muriel Davison has written a book called "A Wren's Tale", about her wartime experiences at the wireless Station at Irton Moor. She will be signing her book at Waterstone's on January 28th between 1pm and 3pm.

A FORMER Wren at Scarborough during the Second World War says she has been “amazed” at the response to her new book on her time at the Y-station above the town. Muriel Davison, 89, said she had received a bundle of letters from people in Scarborough who wanted to share their own memories of the station on Irton Moor. Mrs Davison serviced the wireless sets that picked up German U-boat signals which were interpreted at a secret code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.

Among the letters she has received is one from Mandy Lee, of Eastfield, Scarborough, who told Mrs Davison that her mother, Maggie, was a telephonist at the wireless station. Mrs Davison was pleasantly surprised to hear from a researcher in France who is keen to write in the French language about the work of the Wrens. She said that there are few books in French which describe the important work the young women performed in a bid to win the war. She is keen to meet anyone who was connected to the station during her time there when she attends a signing session at the town’s Waterstone’s store in Westborough, on Saturday January 28th between 1pm and 3pm.

Photo : Muriel Davison in her Wrens uniform



Photo : Muriel Davison (far left) with other wrens on VE day, May 8th, 1945

OTHER ARTICLES
• German U-boat sinks 11 Scarborough Trawlers in one night in World War One.
• The U-Boat campaign in the First World War
• Food rationing during The Second World War in Scarborough
• The German bombardment of scarborough in the First World War in 1914
• World war one outbreak. The war effort in Scarborough
• The national RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat of 1861.
• Log of the German U-Boat which sank eleven Scarborough trawlers in 1916
• The port of Scarborough in the late 15th Century
• Hotels And Places Of Entertainment - Scarborough in World War Two
• The Coronia, Regal Lady and Dunkirk in World War II
• Trawling During WW2 around scarborough and the North - East coast
• Three Scarborough trawlers sunk by mines in 1920
• The early years of the Scarborough Lifeboat
• Harwood Brierleys description of Scarborough harbour at the opening of the 20th century
• Strange customs amongst the Scarborough shipbuilders
• Blackouts in Scarborough during WW2
• Coastal erosion in the 19th Century around the North Bay and Scarborough Castle area
• Thomas Crimlisk - First of the Crimlisks
• The Borough of Scarborough formed in the 12th Century

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