I recognise one or two items from my days in the school's CCF Signals cadre! The microphones and headsets, for example.
Nevertheless, why it wasn't either sold or recycled must be a bit of a mystery.
It reminds me of the time a number of zero-time crated Derwents were found in the depths of some RAF MU - which were gladly snapped up by the Meteor flight at RAF Brawdy, or so the story went at the time.
But the boot was on the other foot if ever you were accused of still having kit which had been returned years earlier, or for which there was no actual need. About 15 years after the last Gnat had left RAF service, I was still being plagued to return a Gnat oxygen mask and Gnat turning trousers, whose return some stores numpty at RAF Valley hadn't recorded.... Fortunately a friendly Flt Sgt solemnly issued me with a couple of 'scrap' labels which satisfied the system...
