Malcolm Clubs (merged)
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I don't think so (something rings a bell about Wittering, even though they were overseas facilities).
Anyway, ahhhh the Mally. Many stories and fine memories. To the RAFG girls, thankyou - you taught me so much.
Anyway, ahhhh the Mally. Many stories and fine memories. To the RAFG girls, thankyou - you taught me so much.
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Ahh! the Mally Club at Tengah 1965/66. And only yards from the billet ('The Stables') behind the pool.
What memories. Cheapest beer on camp for us singlies until about 2/3 through the month when the duty free ration ran out. Then all up to the McGregor club (NAAFI) as they seldom ran out.
Oooooh! I can just taste that Tiger now.
But I do not know if any exist these days.
'We knew how to whinge but we kept it in the NAAFI bar.'
No aw ditor, you're not alone in remembering the Mally clubs. Gutersloh had one. 50p a pint for "Wobbly" Warsteiner or Grolsch in the evenings, and a mean sausage buttie at lunch times, circa 1989.
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I remember a rather large... errr... fracas... at the Mally at Laarbruch between II Sqn Rocks and 10 Field RE circa 1981/2... I also remember sitting in HQ Plod the next morning along with half the Sqn being asked what we saw.
Funny thing was Plod put us all in this big room and interviewed us all in adjacent interview rooms with really thin walls. After the first chaps came out having said "All I saw wuz.... and then the Sarge told me to get out so I left" every single Rock, to a man, gave the identical statement. You could see Plod getting more and more frustrated 'til our boss came down and told them to charge us or release us because the convoy was leaving in 1 hour...
Result...
Funny thing was Plod put us all in this big room and interviewed us all in adjacent interview rooms with really thin walls. After the first chaps came out having said "All I saw wuz.... and then the Sarge told me to get out so I left" every single Rock, to a man, gave the identical statement. You could see Plod getting more and more frustrated 'til our boss came down and told them to charge us or release us because the convoy was leaving in 1 hour...
Result...
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Wasn't it a Malcolm Club just up the hill from the Embankment Tube Station where (in the 70s) you could get theatre tickets at rock-bottom prices for top-notch shows?
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Wildenrath Mally
Not forgetting the 'Mally Wagon' which used to come round with hot pies in the morning. The Wildenrath Mally was also the S Met O's wife...but that was another story......
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AKR Lady Lampson Club
Mally Clubs RIP. However, there is (or certainly was) the Lady Lampson Club (Lady Lampshade) at Akr. All ranks coffee and bacon butty during the morning shift. Bliss and run by smashing staff.
Pip pip ON
only a little thread drift, perhaps (coat getting - taxi......)
Pip pip ON
only a little thread drift, perhaps (coat getting - taxi......)
Well, I'll certainly never forget the gorgeous blonde Malcolm lady at Muharraq in about 1970 - not least the fact that, for some inexplicable reason
, she preferred the company of the dark blue when off duty!
Jack
, she preferred the company of the dark blue when off duty!Jack
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Lady L's and even Cafe Uno's are ideal true all ranks meeting places where you can do club and social business away from the tech areas.
There is something like that at Wittering too
There is something like that at Wittering too
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DH, we must have drank together. I spent much of the late 80's spending my hard earned cash down there. Best bit was the summer time when we would pi$$ about at the pool and then hop just across the road to the Mally.
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I remember a rather large... errr... fracas... at the Mally at Laarbruch between II Sqn Rocks and 10 Field RE circa 1981/2... I also remember sitting in HQ Plod the next morning along with half the Sqn being asked what we saw.
Cue the odd heated discussion and flying cans, not all empty
and a total refusual to leave (no sh*t sherlock) The local plod were invited to the 'party' took one look through the door and called in the hairy toothed biting machines for support..... 3 or 4 of the more behaviour challenged ones I believe... Said furry loonies were introduced via door and window resulting in a mass rumble.... They lost big time and didnt stay long leaving covered in bites 
..... The Sqn was err invited to leave and never return the following morning!
Wasn't it a Malcolm Club just up the hill from the Embankment Tube Station where (in the 70s) you could get theatre tickets at rock-bottom prices for top-notch shows?
I too used it frequently for the cheapo theatre tickets, which impressed my then girl friend who thought I had connections in high places by being able to obtain tickest that I would otherwise have been unable to afford! The Nuffield Centre was also a good place to get a cheap meal and drink when in the West End. It was located in Adelaide Street just across the road from Charing Cross station. In 1974 it moved to John Adam Street off Villiers Street which was just up from the Embankment Tube, and adjacent to Charing Cross rail station, it closed in March 1980.
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There is something like that at Wittering too