Originally Posted by
langleybaston
A fellow inmate!
Our first tour was in number 8, the second in the up-market number 13.
With a brake parachute for cover in the middle.
I remember the bean tin, black as sin.
And the third leg dropping off Webers.
And a certain Gp Capt specialising in eating an egg, shell and all.
Cheese bratties that were a health hazard when poked with a fork.
And Christmas with the fire engine.
Indeed! We were in No 12, 1980 - 83. and the designated provider of electrical power out through our basement window for the floodlight suspended from the peak of the brake parachute. Flood light courtesy of the thespians at Nos 2 and 4. Seem to recall that No 13 had always been the traditional home of the command's chief weather guesser. Fire engine also used to make an appearance on May Day to erect the maypole on the corner at the entrance to Portadown.