HMS Mercury

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.