Stornoway
To get away from West Drayton and hopefully get the posting of my choice, I volunteered for a 3 year posting there. What a bloody dump! The only thing that kept me sane was becoming mates with OC 112 Signals Unit/RAF unit, one Flt Lt John Parker,an eng off. Sadly he died of leukaemia about 9 years ago aged 51.
Strangely over the time I was there quite a few ex Herc mates passed through in one guise or another.
I remember a Vulcan diverting in with a double engine failure after hitting a cormorant. Did the RAF send something to collect them? Did they hell!The poor sods had to get to the mainland by BEA, Inverness I guess, and then by train to London and then back to Lincoln,(IIRC), all in their smelly rompers!