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It all could have turned out
so differently...
I’m here, fifty years on, to see just what impact this event
had on the locals. It just so happens that this bucolic corner
of Buckinghamshire is also a particularly lovely place to
come for a day-trip from London – barely an hour away, but
seemingly continents apart from the urban sprawl. My first
contact is with Eric Kettler, a local bed-and-breakfast
owner. As we walk through the tiny sliver of tarmac road
that runs under Bridego Bridge, he recalls the story of his
father’s brush with Bruce Reynolds. “My dad got a knock
on his door and there were two rather shifty-looking men
there,” he says. “My father was the day-to-day manager of a
farm called Whaddon just near here. The men said they
were planning a fishing trip and wondered if they might be
able to set up camp in one of his fields for a few days over
the bank-holiday weekend. My dad thought they looked
suspicious and told them to bugger off!”
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