Rosy Thacker of Matlock has pieced together the remarkable story of her father’s ‘special intelligence’ work across the world during World War Two.
IN JUNE 1942, a young couple with their three-year-old daughter stayed a few days in a guest house in Bonsall called Herbert Lodge. They did not return for three years. On the morning of the August 7, 1945, they walked over Masson to Matlock Bath. A buzz in the air suggested something had happened. They bought a newspaper and were both horrified and overwhelmingly relieved to see the headlines: Philip Taylor was safe at last…