In 1950 Leo helped build Clun Castle : now he rides behind it!
FOR 68 years, Leo Leeney kept a very dark secret all to himself.
During his five years with the Royal Engineers, Leo served a three-year apprenticeship as a boilersmith.
That work would see him labouring inside the blackest interiors of brand new boilers, riveting them, with only a pair of earmuffs to drown out the deafening din.
His apprenticeship as a sapper was served at none other than Swindon Works, on the locomotive production line.
And one of the boilers he helped to build in.
