Post by stuartB on Nov 6, 2010 21:28:53 GMT
Sometimes memories should stay as memories as the new reality just makes you sad.
I dropped my wife, mother in law and eldest daughter off in Bristol today so they could go and watch Connie Fisher in the Sound of Music in the Bristol Hippodrome. where shall I go with the twins, I thought. I know, I've been thinking for a while as I thunder up the motorway to and fro from wales, what is RAF Locking at WSM like these days.
i was stationed at RAF Locking for 15 months while doing my electronics training and had a great time 1982-83.
Boy was I surprised and not in a good way. I was going to take pictures but didn't bother as it was so depressing for me. the guard house was boarded up along with the chapel. fences everywhere and lots of sheep feasting on the grass. the only thing that remains are the married quarters for both the ranks and the officers which are now privately owned.
Everything else has been flattened. The old accomodation blocks, NAAFI club, engineering blocks, hangars, gas chamber (good
) have all gone. The parade square where I marched up and down for hours on end is still there but in quite a state.
Even though it is 25 years ago I casn vividly remember a Vulcan flying over with bomb bays open, awesome. I also remember one weekend seeing lots of policemen practising riot control which involved them taking it in turns lobbing bricks at each other!!
I loved RAF Locking and Weston Super Mare but that made me sad today. sometimes things are best left in the past.
I then decided to take the twins to the beach, yes in the rain!!! ;D
Here a couple of snaps from our time at WSM
The girls loved the picnic in the rain.
The old open air swimming pool looks run down but it looks like they are doing it up, at last.
I dropped my wife, mother in law and eldest daughter off in Bristol today so they could go and watch Connie Fisher in the Sound of Music in the Bristol Hippodrome. where shall I go with the twins, I thought. I know, I've been thinking for a while as I thunder up the motorway to and fro from wales, what is RAF Locking at WSM like these days.
i was stationed at RAF Locking for 15 months while doing my electronics training and had a great time 1982-83.
Boy was I surprised and not in a good way. I was going to take pictures but didn't bother as it was so depressing for me. the guard house was boarded up along with the chapel. fences everywhere and lots of sheep feasting on the grass. the only thing that remains are the married quarters for both the ranks and the officers which are now privately owned.
Everything else has been flattened. The old accomodation blocks, NAAFI club, engineering blocks, hangars, gas chamber (good
) have all gone. The parade square where I marched up and down for hours on end is still there but in quite a state.Even though it is 25 years ago I casn vividly remember a Vulcan flying over with bomb bays open, awesome. I also remember one weekend seeing lots of policemen practising riot control which involved them taking it in turns lobbing bricks at each other!!
I loved RAF Locking and Weston Super Mare but that made me sad today. sometimes things are best left in the past.
I then decided to take the twins to the beach, yes in the rain!!! ;D
Here a couple of snaps from our time at WSM
The girls loved the picnic in the rain.
The old open air swimming pool looks run down but it looks like they are doing it up, at last.
