The Summerfield fire service led by John Marriott STOCKINGS and suspenders Christmas parties, an in-house dance band, free haircuts and curries on the canteen menu, life wasn’t too bad for those working at a top secret government establishment just outside Kidderminster in the 1950s. In fact, Summerfield Research Station was something of a law unto itself. It had its own police force and fire brigade and even its own club tie.
Santa’s little helpers at a Summerfield Christmas party Quite a package, as befitted a facility at the cutting edge of the country’s answer to the Cold War threat coming from the Soviet Union in the decades following the Second World War.