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Armed Forces / Re: RAF Haydock
« on: Saturday 24 December 11 11:03 GMT (UK) »
Hi Geordielad
Thank you for telling me about rootschat.com. I have enjoyed surfing through the 34 pages on RAF Haydock.
As you will remember I arrived at NWCC RAF Haydock around 1964/1965 from RAF Innsworth where I was a Junior Technician Accounts Clerk working in the
'Glasshouse' at Longlevens Gloucester where teams of us kept the paper records of personnel accounts before 'computerisation'. I hated it! I remember being offered the chance to get away from RAF Innsworth and the dingy flat I was living in by accepting a posting to NWCC RAF Haydock. It was when all the WRAF staff were posted out.
My wife Doris (of 51 years) and I had a wonderful couple of years at RAF Haydock. We lived in a modernised AMQ at Fazakerley for a while and then after a bit 'pulling strings' moved into an AMQ on base immediately opposite the NAAFI. My next door neighbour was a certain Sgt Winterbottom who wsa a chef in the airmen's mess I think. played football for the station so I remember WO Craig.
I was also a member of a folk group one of whom was a telecoms/PABX cpl who had served in Africa (RAF Eastleigh) and enjoyed some success with a flok group called The Countrymen. Under his influence we called ourselves The New Countrymen. We had a great time trying our luck around the Workmens Clubs. Nearly all the blogs on these pages are before my time at RAF Haydock. Apart from you Ken the only familiar name to me is Tony Campbell. Fondest regards Colin
Thank you for telling me about rootschat.com. I have enjoyed surfing through the 34 pages on RAF Haydock.
As you will remember I arrived at NWCC RAF Haydock around 1964/1965 from RAF Innsworth where I was a Junior Technician Accounts Clerk working in the
'Glasshouse' at Longlevens Gloucester where teams of us kept the paper records of personnel accounts before 'computerisation'. I hated it! I remember being offered the chance to get away from RAF Innsworth and the dingy flat I was living in by accepting a posting to NWCC RAF Haydock. It was when all the WRAF staff were posted out.
My wife Doris (of 51 years) and I had a wonderful couple of years at RAF Haydock. We lived in a modernised AMQ at Fazakerley for a while and then after a bit 'pulling strings' moved into an AMQ on base immediately opposite the NAAFI. My next door neighbour was a certain Sgt Winterbottom who wsa a chef in the airmen's mess I think. played football for the station so I remember WO Craig.
I was also a member of a folk group one of whom was a telecoms/PABX cpl who had served in Africa (RAF Eastleigh) and enjoyed some success with a flok group called The Countrymen. Under his influence we called ourselves The New Countrymen. We had a great time trying our luck around the Workmens Clubs. Nearly all the blogs on these pages are before my time at RAF Haydock. Apart from you Ken the only familiar name to me is Tony Campbell. Fondest regards Colin