those were terrible days!
MPN11 You are right there, I remember being sent to 'March In' a SNCO to a MQ at Finningley where the bedroom ceiling had collapsed onto the contents of the room … "tough" said the families office "nothing else available" despite the fact that the family was already on its way from Scotland!
Suffice to say I stood my ground rather firmly and the chap was given another MQ which had suddenly "materialised"