Sketch by Jack Chalker

Off the Isle of Man

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Posted to No.5 Bombing and Gunnery School on  Isle of Man - Headquarters Holding - Reason HH  - so not on establishment strength of unit.

This was an accommodation unit providing pay,  messing etc. for the local AMES - Air Ministry  Experimental Station - Radar Unit. So he would  have been doing this trade at the AMES station  but living at Jurby. Stan was at Cregneash and  Lima during his time on the Isle of man. (Picture  to the left is the view from Cregneash).

View from Cregneash

View from Cregneash

This was an accommodation unit providing pay,  messing etc. for the local AMES - Air Ministry  Experimental Station - Radar Unit. So he would  have been doing this trade at the AMES station  but living at Jurby. Stan was at Cregneash and Lima during his time on the Isle of man.

Masts

”When I think about it now, it makes  my blood run cold. These masts that  we had were 80 ft tall, and wooden,  and held together with sort of bits of  bent metal and bolts because they  had to be able to take them down  and move them on a lorry, you see.  So it was like a Meccano set. And if  anything happened to the that the  actual aerial by the way was a lump  of copper tubing, just like you see a  plumber have. They were the best  receptors for it, but if anything went  wrong with them in the night, you  had to go up there.”

“We didn't see any action. See, there was no  gunfire, and I think like that. And I got fed up  All the action was abroad see, and I was  keen, mad, like you are at that age. So I put  in for a transfer.”

“What had happened was a bloke was being  transferred without his wish. And he was  married. He hadn't been married long, so I went to the CO and I said, look, He don't  want to go. I'll go, He said. You sure? Yeah. I've got no family. I've got nobody really in  the world. Uh huh. I'll go and he can stop  here.”

Adventure was calling Stan.

 

 

 

 

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