Two sisters who played a vital part in cracking German code and intercepting radio traffic during the Second World War have been talking about their remarkable lives.
Patricia and Jean Owtram were brought up in Dolphinholme near Lancaster.
After their family took in two Austrian Jewish refugees the pair quickly become fluent in German, something which was to change their lives forever.
When war broke out, Patricia, then aged 18, was posted to top-secret listening stations along the Kent coast where she intercepted German shipping radio traffic.
Jean became a code and cipher officer serving in Egypt and Italy to support allied agents and help partisan efforts against the Nazis.
Their remarkable story has been published and the pair shared their recollections in Lancaster at the City Museum. The museum's new exhibition, The Hinge of Fate: living with uncertainty in 1942 is now underway and will be featured in a forthcoming Morecambe Bay podcast.
Now both in their nineties I was honoured to speak to Patricia and Jean last night.
