Brief clip of the station shows how much smarter things were back then - I can't believe how dreadfully shabby RAF stations look these days...
In "those days" the Staish and his more senior officers were typically ex WW2 and had been conditioned into being terrified of the SWO. We also had a MPBW depot on each station, complete with a Superintendent of Works.
On the other hand its hard to believe how scruffy most of us juniors were. 'Ernie' was a real enough corporal, but he only got away with his appearance because the SWO didn't realise he was in the RAF - he thought Ernie was a civvy contractor.
(..and so did Ernie, as some would have it. 
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