RAF Haydock

[Cerura]

Duh!!!!

That is who I thought it was but somehow, I got the wrong end of the stick.

Anyone recognise the girl next to him in the floral dress?

[geordielad]

I seem to recall it was just a lady friend of Tony Casey's. Not someone who is inprinted in my memory!

[geordielad]

Hi Lynn:
Well, if you sat in the corner with the counter and door to your right and I sat at the other end, facing the corridor wall, then Tony Casey must have had his desk between us. The two WRAFs you mentioned weren't there when I arrived in February '64.  There was just you, Tony and I as Clerks. I seem to remember we got a local WRAF after you left but, if memory serves me right, Tony was still at Haydock when I left in late '65.
 

You r correct; I was the otherside of the wall. We did get another local service WRAF - lived down the East Lancs; came to work (always late) in heavy driving gloves and often brought her dog. Seem to remember she was as dishevelled as the dog!

[geordielad]

I am trying my hardest to upload another couple of photos from the 60's era!

[Sunshine Girl]

Hope you're getting those pics uploaded alright, Ken.  <grin>

Hey, was that local WRAF you mentioned from somewhere near Ashton in Makersfield or another hyphenated name like that? I seem to remember the one that replaced Lynn had ash blondish hair and wasn't going to stay very long as she was getting married.

[geordielad]

You r right.. I now remember her name.. Celia-Grace Rowe!! What a female - one of a kind! Thank Goodness! I will send u the photos to put on this site; somehow I cannot get them to upload on here.

[Sunshine Girl]

Oh my gosh, your memory is unbelievable, Ken!!  It WAS Celia wasn't it? I'd been trying to think of her name for ages  - and you remembered her full name!  How on earth did you remember all that? <grin>

OK, send your pictures to me and I'll download them to the site - though I have problems keeping them to a discreet size.

[boxer b]

Hi everyone,
I have been enjoying reading about your lives at RAF Haydock.
I worked with Lynne and Kathleen in the accounts, and became friendly with Swoman (he is now related) and have received e mails from Geordielad along with some photographs.
The photo you put on Lynne I cannot remember being taken and the people on the others are not recognisable.  I put this down to my age or a convenient memory.  It was lovely to see Flt Lft Jones and Sgt Sperandeo.
My name was Barbara Best, and I came out of the RAF in January 1964, and got married to Franks brother in law in June 1964, so we have always kept in touch with one another. I was widowed in 1978 and remarried in 1989.

[geordielad]

I can just remember Flt Lt Jones; he moved on as I arrived. I bumped into Fred Sperandeo later in life; By then I was a Flt Lt at MOD and Fred had made Sqn Ldr. He retrired from the RAF about the same time as me  - in 1986 - He had re-married. He retired to Harrogate where I last met him around 87/88.

Merry Xmas to all.