Leeds - Past In Pictures DVD

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Chrism wrote: [Have we had a convo about this before Blakey? If not then there's another SL member who was up on the Chase around the same time. I was trying to think who it was the other day as we were up there having a wander about.Have you seen this? Any pix of you on here?http://www.airfieldinformationexchange. ... dd749ec97c You'll have to C&P the whole link.     Hi Chrism - Yes I think you're right and we may well have had such a discussion a good while ago. Many thanks for this link, which has really turned back the clock to some tune. There aren't any pictures of me on it, but I have the album mentioned and I value it greatly. There are the five standard views in it, together with the actual photo of our own intake. I did contact the visitor centre with a view to buying the little book, but aparently it is sadly now out of print. Yet another year has flown by, but I am determined to visit the site next year and have a nostalgic walk around - even though the whole camp is now demolished its "ghost" can still be felt from these latest pictures. A most wonderful hot dog and coffee stall used to park just in the main gateway and if we could snatch a few minutes from the endless kit cleaning and fatigues we used to hurry to the van and have a real treat - I can taste them still. Our escape came after the passing out parade which was just a couple of days before Christmas 1954. "Trent" double decker buses took us to a railway station for our various trains home and in the New Year I had to go to Yatesbury in Wiltshire for the radar operators' course. Yatesbury (No. 2 E & W School) was a nice camp and the course was utterly fascinating as was the trade - but January and February 1955 were cruel with packed snow and ice and very little, if any, heating in the billets and the classrooms - still it was friendly luxury compared with Hednesford. Our instructor was a lovely Scottish WRAF Sergeant, Celia Reid, and she certainly knew her subject and put it across very well indeed. Happy times and where on earth have the intervening 55 years gone I wonder ??