Are you an old fultonion?

[252]

June to Dec 1976 Tel52. Its a long story but I spent my first two weeks in the Kitchens doing general duties.

memories of that were, painting chairs RAF Blue in a closed room without ventilation! Then standing outside watching the arrival of the Godyear airship which was captined by a AVM who still had a Airship Captains license, with the WO, who was ojust old enough to remember Londong being bombed in WW!

Later on, gatecrashing the 'exorcism' of the room next door. There was supposed to be a gpolterkeist in the room and the CofE padre came room.

TThen the riot that took place becase someone accused Appo 123 of destroying a Fitters room the night before Appo 123 pased out! Our F/lt Sgt Disp was Duty NCO and he grabbed both Ian richardson and myself to join him in trying to stop the riot!

There are other stories but they are for my memoirs!

Nice one morse1001 but you will have to watch your spelling or needsabiggerfuse will have you lifted out your bed at 5 oclock in the morning never to be seen again!.

 

[Inevertouchedit]

Nice one morse1001 but you will have to watch your spelling or needsabiggerfuse will have you lifted out your bed at 5 oclock in the morning never to be seen again!.

Give me until 17:00 on Monday and I may have deciphered some of his post !!

 

[Ex-Bay]

Queuing for ages for the phones.
Racing up the stairs from the mess and over the other side to the other mess to see if the queue was shorter.
Long walk to the train station.

It's a fine building and should be listed.

It IS a listed building.
And it was a long walk from the old Guardroom (on the main road), to Fulton Block). Even further from the Railway Stn. Why some twerp put the Post Office in a remote little hut is anyone's guess.

 

[lister876]

Living in Fulton Block

Living in Fulton Block

ARE YOU AN OLD FULTONION?

Following on from my thread of yesterday:FULTON BLOCK THE WORLDS OLDEST/LARGEST/CRAPIEST BARRACK BLOCK.

Have you ever had the pleasure(sic) of living in Fulton block?. YES

Did you spend 3 years as an APPO or 18 months as a AR/FS/COM`s DE or FITTER or 6 months as a MECH or mabye 15 minutes doing a BOMBHEADS course?. 15 Months

What were your dates and course No`s?.? 26 May 1960-12 Dec 1961 40th Entry Boy Entrants

What were your memories?. Looking back enjoyed every minute of it

Are you still wandering the corridors lost?. No I'm a good navigator

Or perhaps still standing in the mile long queue outside the mess at tea time?.


Im sitting on my sandbag waiting!.

1980-81 L MECH AR 32(with camera Q)
1984-85 TAR FT 65


As a fitter i was able to bag a side corridor room (passed on by another fitter)with only one key so NCO/IC didnt know i was there,so no room inspections for 18 months

Favorite trick was to move heavy sleepers(bed an all)to another wing in the middle of the night.
DT_Xtremez_19:


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Answers above - Steve

 

[morse1001]

Nice one morse1001 but you will have to watch your spelling or needsabiggerfuse will have you lifted out your bed at 5 oclock in the morning never to be seen again!.

I have done that myself! The best bit was watching someone waking up on the grass outside the block!

As for the spelling, well, i never did get the hang of the spell checker on this forum!

Something i forgot to add about my time in the kitchens. there was a SAC cook who had spent 22 years in the RAF, all at RAF Cosford and most of that in Fultom Block!

 

[Rambling Sid]

Hi Morse..... I guess you forgot the mantra that was drilled into the heads of all u/t telegs at Cosford - "Accuracy before speed". Yon SAC cook who spent 22 years at Cosford must have had a stella career. I just couldn't imagine being at one camp for that length of time, and in the same rank. Of course this comes from someone who managed his whole 9 years as an SAC, only to have the carrot of promotion dangled in front of me a month before discharge.

 

[morse1001]

Hi Morse..... I guess you forgot the mantra that was drilled into the heads of all u/t telegs at Cosford - "Accuracy before speed". Yon SAC cook who spent 22 years at Cosford must have had a stella career. I just couldn't imagine being at one camp for that length of time, and in the same rank. Of course this comes from someone who managed his whole 9 years as an SAC, only to have the carrot of promotion dangled in front of me a month before discharge.

Hi Sid, I spent most of time using Radios of all diffeent shapes and sizes, so all of the typing skills, were lost as time went on! I spent 3 months in the Comcen on Ascention Island in 1893 and hated every minute of it because it was run by Tape Apes, who insisted on checking the tapes for errors before they were sent.

I too spent nine years as a SAC, I was told to remuster if I wanted promotion! When I came out i went to Uni and tried to back in as a Zobbit but all they would offer me was either Admin or commisioned dog handler!

 

[NigeC]

I had the dubious pleasure of Fulton Block - October 70 to October 72

Bumpering the floors was the favourite pastime and the 18 man rooms but by the end of the course there were a lot less in the room

Good times as well as not so good DT_Xtremez_19:

I was never THAT young !!!!!

 

[Ex-Bay]

Answers above - Steve

Isn't it nice to see all these sprogs ?

 

[Cornish_Pikey]

AVM 13 from Mar 1990 to a couple of months later.

Arrived 6 years later to start Maths on my fitters course and thought the view was familiar. I was learning maths in my old bedroom!!

 

[Inevertouchedit]

AVM 13 from Mar 1990 to a couple of months later.

Arrived 6 years later to start Maths on my fitters course and thought the view was familiar. I was learning maths in my old bedroom!!

LOL - I went from kipping there in 83-84, to learning Radio Techniques in 89 in the SAME room !!

 

[Mouth]

Was there in 85-86 when i 1st joined as ( Air Photography Processor II at JSOP ) .
I can remember the size of the place and getting lost a few times
( not good if you wandered into the wrong corridors! )

I Remember dragging my ar$e out of bed at a weekend and strolling down to breakfast in my slippers and if you timed it right , you could have breakfast then walk upstars get a paper and straight back down for lunch ! I can also remember there being a couple of tv rooms ... one tv seemed only to show the news...... and the other always seemed to be showing "Animal Farm " or something else deeply disturbing to my fragile young mind ....

 

[252]

Was there in 85-86 when i 1st joined as ( Air Photography Processor II at JSOP ) .
I can remember the size of the place and getting lost a few times
( not good if you wandered into the wrong corridors! )

I Remember dragging my ar$e out of bed at a weekend and strolling down to breakfast in my slippers and if you timed it right , you could have breakfast then walk upstars get a paper and straight back down for lunch ! I can also remember there being a couple of tv rooms ... one tv seemed only to show the news...... and the other always seemed to be showing "Animal Farm " or something else deeply disturbing to my fragile young mind ....

Did my Air Camera Q at JSOP in 1980,we learned to load film into magazines in total darkness by doing it in the classroom with our eyes closed.

When i did it for real loading HUD and HDDR for Tonkas i still used to close my eyes even though i was in total darkness.

If you loaded an extra 10 or so cassettes in the afternoon then hid them you could go in the darkroom first thing in the morning and have an hours kip before coming out for awell earned cuppa!.


DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[Rambling Sid]

strolling down to breakfast in my slippers

In the armed forces were we.......lol

 

[Inevertouchedit]

Fulton memories:

14 man rooms (we were lucky), card schools in the drying rooms, using my air-rifle to put holes in yoghurt pots/milk cartons on the Appo's windowsills opposite, weekend breakfast in dressing gown and slippers, cooking 15 egg omelettes on the hot plates, waiting until a load of malaysian muslims were cooking eggs then nipping over to throw a few rashers of bacon on the same hotplate.
Every fifth car outside being up on bricks whilst a "fitter" was carrying out some major restoration project. A Triumph Bonneville engine sat in 4 inches of oil in the bath for about 6 months, sheet change on a tuesday (mmmmm....), a mile walk to get out of the gates, the new smalley course straight from Swinderby being drilled by a "Sgt" and "Officer" to the delight of the watching dozens, weekends in the Cav'/Oakleaf Club and Spider's Caff.