Wyton in 1973 was pretty good as well because:
a. All the rooms were occupied by livers-in so the mess was alive 7 days a week.
b. There was a respectable number of multi-crew sqns based there so lots of air and ground crew and banter.
c. Every 4 months or so there was a new intake of students for the Joint School of Photographic Interpretation (JSPI) usually including a number of young WRNS, WAAC, WRAF and overseas female students (the Israelis were particularly spectacular).
d. We had a disco in the bar most weekends (see item c. above).
e. Health and safety hadn't been invented and after the weekend disco when we invaded the kitchens and fried our own chicken and chips no one became hysterical (only mildly disapproving).
f. It was my first tour out of training.
g. There was a swimming pool in front of the mess and in the summer (remember when we had summers?) the young ladies from item c. above used to take advantage of it!
h. Cambridge was only a few miles away down the A604 and my favourite undergraduate had a flat (that her parents had bought for her) in De Freville Avenue, near the Fort St George pub.
I could go on but I don't want to bore you.
Rgds SOS
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