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Happy New Year to all our readers, and here's something for you to look out for. The manager of Manchester City (is it Roberto Mancini?) is the spitting image of John Woodside - as I remember him. When he is interviewed on Match of the Day, I immediately think of the wonderful times I spent with my favourite Chief Petty Officer........ |
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Hi Margot you may of known Ken Ashton and myself both on the Met School Staff during the end of 1959 to 1961, my ex Wife PATRICIA BARRON when she finished her course moved to the tower for Met Duties in 1961 for a short time, I did return to Harrier for a short period when the School was transferred to Culdrose. |
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I was on a training course at Kete in April 1958. Then at Culdrose until 1961 and thereafter at Yeovilton. Currently living in Seattle , USA Would love to hear from anyone I might have known during these years !! |
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Sorry Marie. The Photo of Ken Ashton and I appears under Comms Download, The photo of Ken and I appears towards the end of Pdf 05. |
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Johnny, I have had a look at the memory photos and found a few of KA at Kete in 1958. There is one with a wren standing behind him with a question mark over her name, Wendy Wevell. It is Wendy, I was with her at Halfar. She had a scooter and spent many a time with me on the back exploring the island. You mentioned that you were at Kete during the changeover to Culdrose. My Met Instructor was a lovely man but I just can't remember his name. He came from Skewen outside Swansea. Does that ring any bells for you? Evenings spent at the Griffin Hostelry were quite memorable too. On one occasion, I ended up with a 'pink' hat as someone had accidentlally spilt a rum and blackcurrent over it and I spent several following days scubbing it clean, afterall I was still a trainee and everything had to be pusser! By the way frothy coffee was one of the culinary delights at Lossiemouth too, so your 0r KA's recipe instructions must have spread far and wide across the UK. You are quite right by the time you were at the Met school in Culdrose in the late 60's I had left the WRNS and was following a different career path, very few wrens saw the navy as a career choice. Have a Happy Christmas. |
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Hi Marie,, You may remember Ken Ashton and myself around the late 1960,s We were both on the Met School Staff, I believe Ray was also there at that time, we were employed in making Frothy Coffee. |
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Hi Ray and Johnny I have posted under my maiden name but if fellow plotters are anything like me I remember few names from fifty years ago. I believe I was one of the last to train at Kete in 1959 and was stationed at Culdrose for a few months from August to December 1960 - much warmer and civilised climes after Lossiemouth. I replaced a wren called Jenny Parker with whom I joined up and did my training. |
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Cdr Jenkins was certainly there at the Met School during 1960/1961, he was a lovely man, asked his permission to get engaged to a trainee wren, Tricia Barron on a met course 1961. Ray is correct on the Charts, I remember a rating, who shall remain unnammed, somehow managed to plot Eastern Europe in America, I had to quickly replot the whole thing again. |
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Hello Marie - I believe Commander Jenkins was OIC Met School. The chart you are thinking of is a B134, as opposed to a B147, if memory serves me. We plotted a B134 every 6 hours at the Fleet Weather Centre in London. What was your surname when you trained at Culdrose - we might remember you! |
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Hello Everyone, This is the first time I have posted. When I read the previous posts about weather ships it reminded me of my time at Culdrose when Commander Morgan or Commander Jenkins (memory of names sometimes fails) initiated long range forecasting, which meant two wrens twiddled the pens to plot a chart, which extended from the Americas across the Atlantic to include Europe and Russia and southwards to much of Africa. Of course, information from the weather ships in the Atlantic was also plotted. Atlantic. |
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