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You won't believe what a shambles the Depot looks now 17. It's such a shame that such a nice place can be left in the state it is. Surely they could have made it a permanent Cadet Base, or failing a Military Establishment, a Borstal. As for Crickhowell, Beautiful as Ever, what a lovely place. Braz
Cwrt-y Gollen is in its last throws of life. The camp is slowly being demolished and has planning permission for 200 houses. Some of the quarters are still owned by the Army, these are in the Cul-de-sac near where the old NAAFI stood. Fond memories of C-y-G having been posted there twice.
I remember the lovely weekends we use to spend at C-Y-G, Going swiming round the back at the salmon leap & messing around on the rope swing on the river. Happy Days :smile:
If you served at the Depot you must surely have had a drink or two in the following ;
The Bear Hotel with the mad old woman who was the landlady , her name escapes me , but there was one of those metal bar things that you had to put 2p in and get across the wire . I was in there one night with Monkey Lee and a guy called John Bees (Buzz) Both RWF . I think he (Buzz) was from Treorchy . She was having trouble with crows up the chimmney and she actually fired a shotgun up the chimmney to clear them . It was an amazing sight , we all s%+t ourselves but the locals , covered in soot just carried on drinking and chatting !
The Chevron nightclub in Abergavenny , went down them stairs quite a few times , sometimes on my own , others times with unrequired assistance .
The Manor Hotel discos , now that was a place that hated squaddies .
Got any good stories about these places lads ?
Remember drinking in the Vine tree in Abergevenny with the mother & daughter behind the bar LOL :winker:
1957 Left London and signed on same day as Larry Bohana, except he went on I believe to become RSM and then got a commission. Went on a Water Purifying Coarse together because we where to young at the time for Active service. Good times
Aden 5 platoon at C O G. Roberts 83, Thom 31 and Mike Crowley were the only RWF guys if I remember. Cpl Clements D and D was our section comander. Anyone else remember him? Ex SAS I think, used to take his whippets out for runs.
We had dreadful red platoon tracksuits, those awful army raincoats, suitcases and useless sleeping bags with feathers, no kip mat, no bivvy bag.
Its a shame that the camp is at the end of its life in a lot of ways its a waste of what was a great trainning camp . Can remember coming back off a long weekend and the welsh guareds were camped in tents on the green fields getting ready for deployment to the falklands. The drill square was covered with all types of ammo boxes and equipment choppers buzzying about the place had such a buz to it.................
I am going back to the 50,s.A lad from Manchester going into the R.W.F.National service too,this was extraordinary.Met at the station by Cpl,s Rider&Bowen,at RHQ Sgt Frank Killnon was trying to convince me to transfere to the Lancashire Fus,however this failed and I finished up doing 3yrs and dont regret a moment of it.I still wear with pride the blazer badge at every opportunity,cap badge and hackle as well.
Dave What about the one and only Terry Fox and Keith May Keith Sidphorpe and Al Lloyd 32 and ME to name a few moreQuote:
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