HMS Mercury
From: Leydene House
HMS Mercury from the air
Leydene House was commissioned on the 16th August, 1941 as HMS Mercury, Naval Signals School. As Brian Spiby has kindly informed us, below, the house was known to the ratings as ‘Peel House’. The story of its time as a naval establishment is told in a study requisitioned by RJD Technology and in a video, both in the library.
Plans for the conversion of the building to accommodate naval Wardrobe and Mess facilities are on a separate page.
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RJD TechnologyDate of creation
2008Date of coverage
1941 - 1994§Place
East Meon, Leydene HouseContributor
RJD TechnologyCopyright
RJD TechnologyReference number
EM/0013/EM/0186Accession number
2013-12-030Storage location
Print version the History of Mercury is in Library, D/6, DVD with video D/5Format
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History of HMS Mercury
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I was a Coder (Educational) here in 1954 to do my coding training at the start of National Service and then again in 1956 just prior to demob. It seemed very remote at the time. We spent most of our spare time in the NAAFI drinking very very strong scrumpy. There was a bus to Portsmouth which returned at 1359 since we had to be in before midnight. The coding was mainly on Types machines, the British equivalent of German Enigma.
I was a baby WRNR in 1979 and trained as a communicator at HMS Mercury. The Royal Naval Reserve would send me by train, 3-4 times a year from Manchester for specialist training. We would eventually alight at Petersfield, to a wild ride in a ‘Tilly’ through the dark countryside to the base, arriving Just before midnight then up at 6am to prepare for the weekend’s training! It was a long journey…..but such happy memories.
I was a National Service Leading Coder Special (Russian voice interception during the “Cold War”) at HMS Mercury in the summer of 1956.
I am sure we always referred to Leydene House as “Peel House” in my days there.
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