Danny42C
Yup called the Old Tower as we moved across to the new one (Happy Eater) on the Leeming Bar side during my time there. Old Tower was next to the Met Office and Ops WG HQ in front of the Gaydon hangars. Had hours of fun sending soft fruit through the pneumatic tube (Lanson?)when certain Met Observers were on duty. Old Tower had a concrete balcony at the first floor around the side of the SATCOs office and the back of the Approach Room (airfield side). Remember a box van from Menwith Hill (US Listening Base near Harrogate) pitching up to pick up stuff from a regularly visiting C12 (bubblegum run and crypto) and park underneath the balcony. Man gets out of van, he must have been nearly 20 stone and built like a barn door. Van suspension relieved of the weight, promptly jams itself under balcony, man gets back in van but it remains stuck. MT had to rescue him by letting tyres down and dragging it out. By this time the C12 had arrived and bags of Top Secret stuff (now probably freely available on Wikileaks) or Ben & Jerry's ice cream was left on the edge of VAS whilst the big bloke was fretting about the van roof. He never came back again!
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