So, where are the people who once worked for GH, where ahve they gone to?

Paul Kelham, well he's a pilot now...
But what about the Traffic boys and girls and PHU?

Anyone!?

See this website for the leaving bash and lots of photos of the old gang.!

1: Main Page (http://web.me.com/paulmbullock/GoodbyeGatwick/1%3A_Main_Page.html)

Up to XL's collapse Dave Stringer was their Station Manager at Orlando, I kind of lost track of most of the others.. my missus [Eva Cubitt] is with me here in the islands.

Anyone know where Julian Maude and Dave Page ended up???

Hey that was Airborne Aviation before Foulks & Metcalf bought it from Herbert Snowball, how many remember that?:E

Hi, this is Julian here, whoever is looking for me Im now in Inverurie Aberdeenshire working as Services Manager Tesco. Do get back to me and I will give you potted history since I left GH and Airtours
Julian

Would that be the elusive JM who was always somewhere between EMA & BHX but never actually at either?:uhoh:

Rgds
The Moss:ok:

Paul Kelham, he until last week worked for European Business Jets until they went under...

Ey up Moss,

If you remember back it was actually LTN and STN that JM was always in transit between. Never at either..... Whatever happened to Dave the old Scout master from LGW? Dib dib dib...??

Hi Speedyg, not quite sure who you are but hopefully you will get this reply. I worked with Dave at GH Stansted and I also shared a house with Eva in Manuden. After GHS I joined Dan Air as Station Manager, then went to Aberdeen for a year and gatwick. I then joined Airtours when they set up their airline and was SM at Stansted. I then moved to EMA and BHX for a couple of years before returning to STN. About 6 years ago I was Regional Ground Services Manager for MyTravel and then I got out for good, aviation that is. I am now Customer Services Manager for Tesco at one of their Aberdeen stores, married to ex UKL Cabin Crew Manager with one daughter, loving it. How about you whoever you are, I would hate to guess ?????
cheers
Julian;)

Yes it is!!!!!!!!!!!!! who are you ??????????????? Ive moved on since Airtours/Mytravel days now living in darkest Aberdeenshire with Tescos.
how about you
Julian:sad:

Have I been rumbled????? :eek:

If you remember back it was actually LTN and STN

No! You're right and I'm not wrong, Jules got around quite a bit, slippers on, feet up, mostly in the STN area.

Now, as for D 'the' M, whatever happened to him? no doubt playing with toggles:\

Julian, you were rumbled years ago. Hope life's treating you well north of t' border. Personally I prefer Sainsburys, can't figure out Tescos isle config:=

Rgds
The Moss:ok:

Jules you missed out your stints as AOC Vice Chair and Chairman at Stansted!!! How could you forget those meetings...........................

Glad to hear things are going well for you. If you want some warm winter sun drop me a line........................you know me well enough and so does yr missus ;-)



Not sure how D the M got on this thread if it's the same one I'm thinking of, cos he was ex BCal......................

Still at sunny Stansted for my sins:bored: But my position has just been made redundant so either apply for new position or take the money:{

Hi,
I am trying to locate Dave Summers & Kevin Lee Ground handling Managers based in the south terminal can anyone help ? :ugh:

Steve, Dave Summers is with Swissport, currently at NCL. PM me if you want to pass your contacts on.

First Point closed last week so the last few ex GHI guys are now at LHR. Eric Gainey, Joe 'hello m'dear' Erdelyi, Martyn Robinson, Chris Grainger, Graham Millar etc etc

Well well what a name from the past Dave. This is Julia Griffin ( Dave Page, Donna, Jane,Belinda etc) anyway update on me left in 1991 for Australia,still here with my partner and our 2 girls. Dave was working in Cargo at Stansted, do you have any more news on them.

how about other GH stations, anyone from GH MAN?

Matt Pearce - Gate Gourmet

I see Ruth Robet (Welsh Ruth) at the school gate regularly. She's now with Swissport.

Interesting wee thread this. Any of you guys go back as far as the infamous Mr Angus Kinnear? Andy Holmes, Paul Whitehead who all jumped ship and headed North to Manchester way back in the 80's was it?

Not sure anyone will remember me!
Robin Springer, worked the 7th Floor finance dept since 1993.... still with Aviance now at the new office "West Point" Heathrow... but tasking to get out! ... hopefully!
even more people moving on now... Martyn Robinson went in June and is now working for himself, Oonagh tilney from HR and Lorriane Milton (Erics PA) are leaving the end of Oct.
Couple more from the accounts team also going at the end of the year.
I'm working with Joe, Chris and Graham, also Peter Lomas is here with us as well..
times move on!

How about back to the late seventies to the times of Tibbiy, Morph, Pat Hurst, Do your Jacket Up Greenwood and best ramp shift of Stumpy ones......

Message from the bunker..........Oh and Unmin of course......

Anyone recall any of the PHU staff in the early eighties, wondering where some of them may be now? Lorraine Franks is one name that comes to mind

Hopefully having lunch with Tibby, Pat Hurst, College and a few others soon, Old GHits Xmas Lunch!

Yes I go back to those days with Angus Kinnear etc etc

Again I was there too!

Sounds like a pair of Minders, but I last met then in Canada with Can 2000 then that went bust. I heard Angus moved to the USA and joined USA 3000. Not sure what Colin did.

AJK now retired , CT unfortunately passed away 12 months or so ago

Ah I remember Paul Whitehead, he of the washing line saga.Angus has passed on. Not sure where to though.My time in GH was 1977 to 1989..Best time ever I think.

How many of you were with the original GHS post Airborne Aviation ?

I was there 1990 in check-in North terminal CX and Air 2000, arr those Air-2-bob girls, they were very cute. Then down to Traffic for 8 years... Very good days and nights if I remember, I was on Spanners shift. Lesft in 99....

Shame its all gone now...

Hey! I was looking to see if Eva was on Facebook and this site came up! Too many names on here remind me of the past!...Please pass my details on to Eva and ask her to drop me a line. Thanks

I commute between UK and Barbados nowadays so not so far away from you if you in Turks & Caicos still?

Lesley Berry...GHL '79-88...I'm so very old now!

FAO ndobner

I used to work in PHU in the satelite from about 83 to 87ish I think. The supervisors in the box from memory were Linda, Lynne, Caroline (but she went to LHR), and the PO's were Ray, Liz and a great lady (can't remember her name, but she was studying for her pilots licence).

They were good days back then and a great team of people to work with. I was on the opposite shift to Carl and Paul (Peggy and Penny lol) along with Sarah Hugget, Bruce Wilson, Joe Gazzola and others.

It would be great to hear from any others who were around then...

Brian Homer....

I remember Dave the scoutmaster when he was Station Manager at Airtours. His lad, Phil, was then a cub reporter on BBC Radio Kent. The BBC's man in Australia is called Phil Mercer - are they the same?

Was that Dave Singer you were referring too??

No, Dave Mercer.

Good Lord, some of these names take me back. Yup, I was there in the days of AJK, Ray Caesar, Alan Matterface, Colin Johnstone and yes, even Julian Maude!
Graduated to LHR some years ago and working there now. Drop me a line if anyone remembers and wants to know more.

Not NORA surely? Is that really you?!

Yup, it's me. Who's that?

It certainly was. Can you remember who was the supe before Ray tho'? I go back to '77 when Ray was still co-ordinator. Agh, those lovely little Fiat 126's. A hint of rain or especially snow and the whole operation ground to a halt. No radios then either. They were the days.

Excellent little motors especially in the snow up on the old west park. How's NORA these days, thought you went to BA? Are you going to the GG2 do in October?

They were at that. I managed a triple handbrake turn up there before it conked out on me. Quite a long walk back wasn't it.
Yes, with BA now. Did my stint in the mob and then came to BA in '89, been here ever since. Used to operate through LGW some years ago and called in for a brew with Ray when I had the chance but haven't been down that way for some time now. Still keep in touch with Wilf (best man at my wedding), Ian Kirkpatrick (Britannia engineer) and recently found Rich Tassell (BIA Ops).
Sorry, not up-to-date with do's etc. GG2?

Now that's when I started too. Only VFR, taildragger, living in Sussex, reckon I might be able to guess who this is. How gozit?

Check PMs & rvt SVP

OK NORA you can take GH03(the one with the sports gear stick) and do a Brit Air on the west park and then turnround the Ugandan 707 on cargo. After that you can go to Edds for a Mushroom pizza and chips........... Or i could stich up Lovegrove(Joy) or maybe Stumpy one or even Unmin!!!

A from the Bunker!!!!!

He can't have that one, its broken down again so I left it on 22 when the Skytrain went. I had to walk back to the Ramp Office. Anyone seen Chatten?

Was that a traffic car or a PHU car, I can't remember, long time ago...

Binthere thought the reference to the Bunker was the give away. and GH03 was a ramp 126. Now i have the mayfly rostered for the day but then we where the best ramp shift anyway......

Adolf from the bunker I did not stich you up individually i made shore i stiched you all up.

XTM

Nah, it was always "bacon, egg, sausage, fried bread, baked beans and musrooms, twice on one plate please".

I go back to th:ok:e Seventies and Eighties

Worked on the ramp,movement control.Love it all,but these days are all gone.Now have some good memories

Oh yes, you have a few famous names there!

On my shift I remember Alan Matterface, Julian Maude (who gave me the nickname Woody), Paul Gurton, Shaun Massingham, Dave Elliott, Pat Hurst, Tibbs (cards at the ready), "the Vicar" and loads more.

The Fiats had heaters, whereas the morris's had doors that came off (not by design), and the minis were probably older than the comets. Joy! Can't believe we were upstaged by the Dan Air (3 stripe station manager "amber one to ops") guy with his cortina estate and radio.

Be good to hear from anyone that remembers me.

Woody

Hi Blade,
Yep, I do. Started in May 75. Then went to Lakers in 82. The 20+ years with CX in HKG.

Hey Woody,

I remember you too!! Any idea where they (apart from me, Alan) are now.?? I see Adrian Gardner regularly on my trips to DOH.

Joined Traffic in 78 down in the southpier left in 87 from Mocon(the heady delights of the 7th floor). Now semi retired in Gloucestershire doing some consultancy for a proposed African Airline and playing with a potential new company in the UK.

Long live the bunker............

Back in the 70's on a short secondment to Air Freight, Lydd, remember agent, me, F/O and all our bags piling into at least three 126's in the snow until we got wise and just stood there until we found one that would grind into life and take us out in the wee small hours to our Dak for the run to AMS.
Heady days, and a real friendly bunch of people. They had heaters??

Anyone remember Linda Allanson? PHU late seventies (I think!).

Would love to know what became of her.

Stumbled on this today and saw some names from the good old days
I was there in Traffic 79-86 and have great memories of Vid, Scoot, Pass etc
Now working and living in the States
Happy to make contact with any of those who were around. Please PM me
Remember Nigel showing me his flying skills in the Cessna at Shoreham back in the day. Does anyone recall putting the Fiat in the bin? and “the lets light up the (old) crew room with the cars headlamps in the middle of the night incident? :)
Are there any reunion plans?

Von (Baron)

Adrian is in DOH! Who is he working for?

SP

Anyone know if a reunion is on the cards this year? Would like to plan it in with a trip to UK for a change

Shiner,

No, it's me in DOH doing a bit of consultancy work. Adrain was dispatching the flights I was on. Unfortunately QR stopped operating to LGW end of May, so now I have to do LHR.

Baron Von Brough I presume . Forgive me if the surname isnt 100pc.

Hi

I had a very temp contract with GH - ramp tramp for 6 months.
1977 0r 1978.

After GH went to Biggin Hill working for Fairflight. Very happy days:).

I rememember ? Johnston telling me that I should join an airline
ops dept. This I did and since 1985 have been a self employed
aviation consultant. Had a great life.

After all these years I certainly recognise a few names - Pat Hirst
"Amos" and his pipe Ray Caesar and a few others.

Many years down the road I remember those days with fondness
and realise that I was an outspoken little :mad:.

Anyway I used to help the Skyways crews G-AMSM etc turn the props at
0230 in the morning. People thought I was mad....

A long time ago I know - What became of Peter Bryne and Evan More????

Remember flying to AMS on a newspaper run with Skyways Chief Pilot
former WW2 Wellington pilot and his co- pilot was a ? Baldwin (later Air Ecosse)
All the very best to you all:ok: