From: jmtdance@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, March 9, 2000 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, chris larson wrote:   
   > Hi Robbie   
   > My dad was stationed in Langar from '58-62 . I was best friends with   
   > Lorraine Johnson!   
   > Yes, I remember Mr. Ford well. We called him Fordie, Fordie the battery   
   > boy!.....   
   > Chris (Buck) you may remember my sisters, Gerry, Avril and Shelly   
   >   
   > Robbie  wrote in message   
   > news:38BF4CC8.B2B53073@blazeinet.com...   
   > > Ok, here's another one for the list!   
   > >   
   > > My Dad was posted to Langar, England in 1962 - '63. He flew with the   
   > > Bristol Freighter Transport Sdn. We lived in P.M.Q.'s near the little   
   > > village of Radcliffe-on-Trent. Our P.M.Q. was a little brick bungalow   
   > > with English roses planted front and back, and after a rain (which was   
   > > often), you could open a window and the smell of roses would come   
   > > wafting through the house!   
   > >   
   > > The base kids all went to school in town, either the Infant School or   
   > > the Secondary-Modern. Some of our school buses were double-deckers, and   
   > > that was kinda fun! We had both English and Canadian teachers at the   
   > > Secondary-Modern school (jr.high & high school). We had our main meal at   
   > > noon in the school cafeteria for about 7 shillings a week...what a deal!   
   > > We wore school uniforms and had Prefects and daily Assemblies. Our   
   > > Headmaster's name was Mr. Ford and he was an ominous-looking tall man   
   > > with flaming red hair and very bushy red eyebrows and a big red   
   > > moustache. If you got sent to his office, you were most likely going to   
   > > get 'the cane': (   
   > >   
   > > Some of the kids I remember from there were Jeanette Craig, Wayne   
   > > Schadt, Jim Savelle, John Cheeseman, Bill Kerr, Thora Brown, Mitzie and   
   > > DeeDee Goldie, and Lorraine and Millie Johnson.   
   > >   
   > > We went on some fabulous trips with the Girl Guides that year. Our   
   > > leader was Muriel Craig and she took us to The Illuminations in   
   > > Blackpool, and a trip to London where we had tea with Lady Baden-Powell   
   > > in her apartment in Hampton Court Palace (no kidding!!).   
   > >   
   > > Anybody else from Langar?   
   > >   
   > > Robbie : )   
   > > --   
   > > "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other   
   > > invention in human history, with the possible exception of   
   > > handguns and tequila."   
   > >              - Mitch Radcliffe   
      
   Hello, my dad was also posted 1958-1962, we were neighbours with the Marions,   
   Nelsons,Buchanons and Renaults.   
      
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