Originally Posted by
chevvron
No as I said, there was a guy in the mess at Manston in 1988 who said he was working at Ash but the mess was very small; I was given a bungalow across the road to sleep in..
That would have been before the new Mess was built; I joined Costain in 1988 and one of my projects as Area Planning Manager, was the new Mess which was under construction. The old Officers Mess was originally the Station Commanders residence and would have been quite small by comparison to an operational station. Between 1970 and 1975 I used to enjoy Sunday Lunch in the Mess with my Dad, who was a pilot with 1 AEF from it's formation in 1958 at Biggin Hill and at Manston from 1963. Sadly, when the new mess was opened, the old one was demolished, such a shame, it was such a wonderful old building.
Sorry bit of thread drift there.