On Sunday, September 23, 2012 12:54:36 AM UTC-4, Beverly Todd wrote:
> On Thursday, March 9, 2000 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, chris larson wrote:
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> > Hi Robbie
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> > My dad was stationed in Langar from '58-62 . I was best friends with
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> > Lorraine Johnson!
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> > Yes, I remember Mr. Ford well. We called him Fordie, Fordie the battery
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> > boy!.....
Hello this came as a shock ,just decided to do a search as it was a recent
memory as My Mother died while we were stationed in Radcliffe , I was just
very little 7 when that happened ..Nancy Knoblauch, My brother was Edward
Knoblauch and my Sister Gayle
Brown.
Wow this bring back memories.
I do remember you Beverly ..
if someone updates lets chat.
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> > Chris (Buck) you may remember my sisters, Gerry, Avril and Shelly
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> > Robbie wrote in message
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> > news:38BF4CC8.B2B53073@blazeinet.com...
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> > > Ok, here's another one for the list!
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> > > My Dad was posted to Langar, England in 1962 - '63. He flew with the
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> > > Bristol Freighter Transport Sdn. We lived in P.M.Q.'s near the little
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> > > village of Radcliffe-on-Trent. Our P.M.Q. was a little brick bungalow
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> > > with English roses planted front and back, and after a rain (which was
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> > > often), you could open a window and the smell of roses would come
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> > > wafting through the house!
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> > >
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> > > The base kids all went to school in town, either the Infant School or
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> > > the Secondary-Modern. Some of our school buses were double-deckers, and
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> > > that was kinda fun! We had both English and Canadian teachers at the
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> > > Secondary-Modern school (jr.high & high school). We had our main meal at
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> > > noon in the school cafeteria for about 7 shillings a week...what a deal!
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> > > We wore school uniforms and had Prefects and daily Assemblies. Our
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> > > Headmaster's name was Mr. Ford and he was an ominous-looking tall man
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> > > with flaming red hair and very bushy red eyebrows and a big red
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> > > moustache. If you got sent to his office, you were most likely going to
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> > > get 'the cane': (
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> > >
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> > > Some of the kids I remember from there were Jeanette Craig, Wayne
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> > > Schadt, Jim Savelle, John Cheeseman, Bill Kerr, Thora Brown, Mitzie and
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> > > DeeDee Goldie, and Lorraine and Millie Johnson.
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> > > We went on some fabulous trips with the Girl Guides that year. Our
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> > > leader was Muriel Craig and she took us to The Illuminations in
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> > > Blackpool, and a trip to London where we had tea with Lady Baden-Powell
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> > > in her apartment in Hampton Court Palace (no kidding!!).
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> > > Anybody else from Langar?
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> > > Robbie : )
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> > > --
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> > > "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other
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> > > invention in human history, with the possible exception of
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> > > handguns and tequila."
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> > > - Mitch Radcliffe
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> Hello, my dad was also posted 1958-1962, we were neighbours with the
Marions, Nelsons,Buchanons and Renaults.
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