5. Heath’s wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Robert, Johannesburg, 1944.
6. 19 Squadron at RAF Duxford, 1936. Heath is fourth from the left in the second row. Johnny Kent is standing second from the right. Squadron Leader J. W. Turton-Jones is seated, centre.
7. American Mitchell Mark II Bombers of 180 Squadron prepare for take-off from Melsbroek, Belgium, for a daylight attack on the bridges at Venlo in Holland, October 1944.
8. The art deco foyer of the Strand Palace Hotel, designed by Oliver P. Bernard.
9. Celebrations in Trafalgar Square on ‘V’ Day, 8 June 1946. ‘This beats everything – the Coronation, the Jubilee and any of the cup finals.’
10. Yvonne Symonds hurries to avoid press photographers, summer 1946.
11. Exterior of the former Pembridge Court Hotel, 34 Pembridge Gardens, 2012.
12. Police plan of Room 4 at the Pembridge Court Hotel.
13. The young Margery Wheat, mid-1930s.
14. Margery Gardner’s identity card photograph,
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.1940.
15. The Tollard Royal Hotel, West Cliff, Bournemouth.
16. Advertisement for the Tollard Royal Hotel, for its first season since the end of the war, summer 1946.
17. Doreen Marshall, her father, mother and sister, Joan Cruickshanks, in the garden at Woodhall Drive, summer 1946.