Hi WT
Hell, at the age of 86 I have very little recollection of anybody.
However, like you, I look upon my time at Biggin Hill and Silverstead (in fact most of my RAF time) as very happy time. Maybe I laid it on too thick about our experiences at Biggin Hill. We didn't regard them as indignities, rather more of a fun way of overcoming certain inconveniences, mostly created by the wartime pilot jollies which happened at weekends. On the whole life there was good.
Not sure what happened to the improvised bedroom in the Fixer though. As far as I can remember it was still intact when I left to go to Slappers Hill around autumn 1955. Maybe the powers that be found it and took it back. And I confess that I don't have a very clear memory of the rest room by the lane. As far as I can remember, if we were by the lane, we were either getting out of or into a Land Rover.
But like I said recollection of detail is tricky.
Leahoe