Talkdown Man
"Perhaps Shack can re-kindle a fading memory too."
Cheeky s@d!!
The only time I can remember JK getting what he deserved was one day we came in for a Watch changeover and JK was sitting in No.2 and PBS took over No.1 and threw everything at JK and none of us would relieve him. No stories about casinos that day!!
As for take offs Paddy H had a BOAC 707 following a DC3 same route, can't remember the time needed but it was a lot. Paddy has the 707 lined up and says if I let you go will you close your eyes and not open them until I tell you. Yes says God, so Paddy lets him go and watches until the 707 is higher than the DC3 then says OK you can open your eyes now.
Thoughts of the old tower, happy days in the 60's when the female assistants had mini skirts, what a pleasure it was to follow them up the stairs to the VCR.
My Watch supervisior at the time would often disappear and we could not find him until one day somebody caught him coming out of the small door that was/is halfway up the stairs to the VCR, the entrance to a void under the VCR floor. The deduction was that he was looking up through the cracks in the floor at the delights of the young assistants.
Does anybody ever explore the mass of tunnels under the central area these days? You could enter through a small room in the base of the tower and get to all the terminals through tunnels that carried heating pipes and other services. There were access points all over with ladders leading up to exits, Skinhead went up one day to find a large heavy cover at the top which he attempted to push up, luckily it was heavy so he could only raise it very slighty---he was coming up in the middle of the road between the tower and what was to be terminal 3.
Happy days.