'GET SOME IN'
 

Spent a few enjoyable evenings watching re runs of 'Get Some In' on Forces TV. It has never been re run on mainstream TV, I guess phrases such as 'poof house', 'nancy boy' and 'jockstrap', don't go down well with today's sensitive audiences! I can't believe it was first shown over 42 years ago. It seems very fresh to me. Does anyone have any idea where it was filmed? Was it RAF based or just a MOD camp somewhere?

Dunno, but doing Basic at Swinderby in 82 wasn't much different.

I remember seeing that as a lad in NZ.
Loved it.

It's available on u tube.

There are some opinions here as to the filming locations..

https://www.e-goat.co.uk/forums/show...82-Get-some-in

Thanks siti, will check it out. The barrack blocks I guess are studio sets, but some of the furniture looks familiar.

I caught quite a few episodes when it was shown on UK Gold a few years back. Enjoyed it immensely.

"Fag for the Corporal - Light for the Corporal"

Dfy8 ah the joys of real English.

BBK Senior (Locking 1949) certainly enjoyed watching it. Although whether he was laughing or crying I wasn't sure!

My Dad watched it. He loved it - said it was just like his RAF National Service.

Particularly the bit where Cpl Marsh makes them crush all the coke from the stove into the floor...............my Dad said he was on very familiar terms with the floor polish and the floor 'bumper'..............

Great series

Arc

Going from my experiences of Locking, early 60s, it was a documentary.

I was staggered to find bumpers still in use in the all-civvy Met. Office at Linton in 1981. S Met O was apparently more concerned about keeping up with the RAF than he should have been. But was he keeping up, or was he a dinosaur?

Q. When was the last bumper bumped anywhere in the RAF [or, I dread to ask, do they bump on .......... ?]

Some out side stuff done at Halton. Cpl Marsh had some fun doing drill with some of Lord T's Brats.

Got all 5 DVDs, reminded me of Halton 9th Nov 1993, the very first intake of recruits after Swinderby closed! (Floor Buffers still in use!!)

As an ex-ATC CWO, I was determined to remain the grey man. As we were formed up and told to Right Turn towards the mess, I could spot around 6 other former ATC cadets, so once on the march (deliberately out of step) I struck up a conversation with the bloke at my side = instant bollocking & grey man disguise which I managed to maintain for 8 weeks (6 weeks + 2 for Xmas)!!!

23yrs to the day later, I was back at Halton RRU after almost ripping my arm off!


|'ll have to rewatch all of it to see if I can spot some of Halton.

But it's a good works pub-quiz question:
Where can you find RAF Skelton, Midham & Druidswater?

All on YouTube:


Yes, later parts filmed on Halton Hospital site and Recruit Training Squadron site. Spiritual home of the RAF. I still can't believe there is an aspiration to get rid of the place.

Just started watching - fantastic! Thanks, rolling20 for starting this thread.

Never heard of it before. How did that happen?

Swinderby, 1979, No 8 Flt. Aircrew Cadet Golf made Senior Man. Remained so for the whole six weeks- was that the norm? Or were they waiting to see if I'd get it right?

CG

PS, the DI, Sgt Robinson insisted on calling me, 'aerocrat'.

arclite01



My photo of the barrack block in which I lived at Abingdon in 1959. Glow of the coke in the stove is just about visible, plus floor looks as though it's had a good "bumping".


http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...BlockLarge.jpg

I too, was familiar with the bumper and that orange polish from my time at Swinderby in '66. When I returned for a 4-year stint in '80 they were still in use until the rooms were 'carpeted' (not sure when, exactly) with some brown coloured industrial stuff similar to Scotch-Brite. I must say though, that after swinging the bumper for a while, one could get some satisfaction from a nicely polished lino floor of a job well done!