The first apartment that we lived in was in a block called Bazzara South. It was bigger than normal and was classified as a senior officer's hiring (which I most certainly was not). The bad news was that it was behind Maalla Straight towards Shamsan and the other side of the road was out of bounds. I presume that the previous occupant had done a sensible runner but we soon established that all of the artillery that came from the direction of Shamsan went past our block and buried itself into the flats on the south side of Maalla Straight. Just across the road was the Aden Supply Depot which was an RAF establishment but the current Army regiment (I have fond memories of the Cameronians and the South Wales Borderers) had a large presence there and manned the goon towers around the perimeter. This is our view of Shamsan from the bedroom window.