Episode 278 Beatrice 'Tillie' Shilling - Engineer, Motorcycle Maven and Saviour of the Spitfire
A shorter episode this week but that makes it the perfect length to listen to on your way to Holiday Shopping. This week we go uplifting as we dig into the life of Beatrice 'Tillie' Shilling. The child of a master butcher and one of thre girls born and raised in the South of England, she spent her pocket money on tools and penknives, deconstructed devices to see how they fit together and worked and played with Meccano sets, early construction toys allowing children to build working models of cars and cranes. She would even win a competition for building from these kits. By the age of 14, she…
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