As a boy and young man, Derek lived next to Bradwell Airfield. His boyhood memories include watching the British and American planes and meeting Douglas Bader. Later, he was an agricultural worker and a long-serving member of the Observer Corps. He talks about various shops in Maldon High Street, also ploughing most of the fields around Maldon which are now completely built over.

Monk, Derek

(Born 1930) Interviewed February 2019.

As a boy and young man, Derek lived next to Bradwell Airfield. His boyhood memories include watching the British and American planes and meeting Douglas Bader. Later, he was an agricultural worker and a long-serving member of the Observer Corps. He talks about various shops in Maldon High Street, also ploughing most of the fields around Maldon which are now completely built over.