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    Whilst looking through my older discs for some photos. I came across these photos of me when in the WRNS (wrens)
    I was a staff car driver had had a great deal of waiting around to do hence the look of boredom. I really enjoyed my life in the WRNS and also I liked my job very much.
    Here are just a couple of photos. They are of me honest

    Lets here about your trip down memory lane
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    OK, here's one my brother scanned from my Cortina days.

    Note the CB antenna on roof.
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    Well worth posting Beryl. You've not changed a bit judging by the up to date pics I've seen of you. Always nice to look back through the pics of 'yesterday'.

    Better dig an old one of me sat on the bonnet of my Vanguard Pickup Rolf......prehistoric or what!



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    Thanks Pete
    I went on to dive a a Zephyr 4 when I left C in C Portsmouth to join C in C Home fleet as the Chief of Staff's personal driver
    I think That's a great photo Rolf
    Now let's see who else is brave enough to show us their trip down memory lane.
    Pete . You are next I believe

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    Can't wait to see that Pete, note the backside of My Dad's Cresta behind my Cortina.
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    Tomorrow perhaps Beryl as I'm signing off now.


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    OK. Pete
    Wasn't life serious in those days.
    Mind you I have never been serious ( well on occasion was)
    Lif in the Mess( dorm)
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    You had a great job, Beryl, and obviously had a great time in the mess, but was that blood on the beam?

    I like your car - we used to keep them shiny in those days. The pics of my Triumph Herald are in a box somewhere - would need scanned in. Glen says it was just a scrap of junk, but 'Kelly' was the best car in the world to me!

    Rolf, did your brother always drive with his foot out the door like that?

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    Lol. That is Rolf

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    Yes, it was scanned by my brother. That's me sitting in the driveway of my Mum's house, listening to a tape and generally Chillin'.
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    Yes, it was scanned by my brother. That's me sitting in the driveway of my Mum's house, listening to a tape and generally Chillin'.
    Looks like a still shot from the film set of Minder

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    LOL, you're not wrong.
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    Terribly sorry! Didn't read your post correctly.

    You look really sad there, Rolf, so I didn't recognise you!

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    I must find the photo f me with my my 3 ton lorry

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    Haven't found my 3 tonner yet but here I am in the mean while Playing guitar
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    That's a great pic! Do you still have the same guitar?

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    Yes, great photo. Seems like you had a thing for being a long way of the floor Beryl.
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    No. I gave the Guitar to my brother (he was absolutely tone deaf like my mother) I on the other hand could work out the wrong notes that sh would sing when I was two and a half
    and was all ways picked for the school choir
    Yep. I'm a high flier

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    I thought perhaps that there were mice there.
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    No. Never saw any . We had to keep it very clean actually
    That was Duchess of Kent barracks Portsmouth
    It has been demolished and I believe there is a village there now It was an enormous place

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    me when My hair was longer
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    Here I am with my 3 ton lorry. This is a conversion cause. I had to pass my driving test in this (unladen ) for the rank of Leading Wren at RNAS Culdrose
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    Cleaning the car. Duchess of Kent Barracks Portsmouth
    These barracks are no longer there now . I have been told it is a vilage
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    What was the car Beryl, a Vanguard?
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    Wow, I must have missed this whole thread!!!!
    Great pics, people, and well done for starting it, Beryl. I don't have a scanner at present, but I can add this which I did a while ago for a special project, with some versions of me in the 80s. Annoyingly, I don't have shots of me in my full stupid hair phase, although there is supposedly a shot somewhere in the family of me with rags tied in my hair - I was a cross between a punk and a Goth (technically known as a Post-Punk - yep, there are names for everything). Put it like this - there are a load of Japanese photo albums with me in them from when I lived in London

    .. and yes, that IS a mullet
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    Great shots Louise

    That car Rolf is a Ford Consul . I had a Zephyr 4 when I was posted to RAF Northwood

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    It was a toy gun ..............................
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    You'd get put in the pokey for carrying that now, Beryl!

    Nice 'shots' though!

    (Didn't really mean to say that, honest..)

    You have been quite a girl, Louise - and probably still are....? (Very film star-like too!)

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    It was at a holiday camp. It was Cowboy night and i won the lasso comp. I surprised my self actually and spun it for nearly 2 minutes. None of the others could get the nag of it. You have to let the rope twist loosely in your hand an the loop gets bigger and bigger eventually the rope runs out and you have to t go.

    Here is my getting ready to bed down. at RAF Northwood
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    Wow! That would polish more than your teeth!

    I guess you had lots of fun there though!

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    It polished them off.

    Actually we used to keep a wire brush and threaten the wrens who were lazy thet we would put them on a cold bath and scrub them with it if thy didn't wash properly and regularly

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