Steve Aubury has kindly shared another image with us from his oil drilling days in Alberta. He adds:
"In those days money was of little concern and choppers could and would just drop in and make courtesy calls."
"The engineer on this job liked his newspapers and woe betide anyone landing and not bringing newspapers for the crew!"
"1978 and the Oil Industry was on a steep climb still in their fortunes after the energy crisis of 1973."
The drilling assignment that Steve was working on was for Union Oil Canada, the drilling contractor was Bawden Drilling and the well known a Union Latornelle:
A Highland Helicopters Bell 206B C-GHXJ lands in the car park at the Latornelle well south of Grande Prairie, Alberta on 3rd March 1978 (Photo: Steve Aubury)
Of Heath and Whirlwinds ..
A Westland Whirlwind of the RAF's Air Support Command delivers British Prime Minister Edward Heath to the 'Jubilee Conference' at Wilton Park in 1971. Heath is greeted by Wilton Park director Heinz Keoppler
Wilton Park began on 12 January 1946 as part of an initiative inspired by Sir Winston Churchill, who in 1944 called for Britain to help establish a democracy in Germany after the second world war. It takes its name from Wilton Park Estate, near Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, which was used as an interrogation centre during the war. Since 1951 it has been based at Wiston House in Sussex, the Wilton Park Estate remaining in other Government use, currently as the Defence School of Languages.
Between January 1946 and June 1948 roughly 4,500 Germans were made to attend re-education classes there.