What's the most recent RAF base?

[Jim_P_Pulfrew]

Ty Croes.

When a squeaky clean AC Pulfrew was posted from trade training to Valley in 1979, I was accomodated at Ty Croes. Now it definitely had a guardroom with blue suit staff and the ensign was flown from the flagpole every day and the sign said RAF Ty Croes. It was a sattelite of Valley just as RAF Mona is today.

The accomodation was shocking to say the least and the biggest prize from passing your FLM school was not becoming a LAC but going on shift and therefore being entitled to a room in the equally appalling Valley accommodation!

There used to be a grand little establishment called 'Granny's Pop Shop' near the camp as I recall where some toothless old crone used to serve the most evil home made beer to us unsuspecting youths and I am convinced to this day it was a ploy by the Free Welsh Army to kill all us English and Jocks!

Jimps

 

[MAINJAFAD]

Ty Croes.

When a squeaky clean AC Pulfrew was posted from trade training to Valley in 1979, I was accomodated at Ty Croes. Now it definitely had a guardroom with blue suit staff and the ensign was flown from the flagpole every day and the sign said RAF Ty Croes. It was a sattelite of Valley just as RAF Mona is today.

The accomodation was shocking to say the least and the biggest prize from passing your FLM school was not becoming a LAC but going on shift and therefore being entitled to a room in the equally appalling Valley accommodation!

There used to be a grand little establishment called 'Granny's Pop Shop' near the camp as I recall where some toothless old crone used to serve the most evil home made beer to us unsuspecting youths and I am convinced to this day it was a ploy by the Free Welsh Army to kill all us English and Jocks!

Jimps

Well you learn something new every day, The Army were using the place as a TA camp / Range when 144 SU moved in (The Army pulled out totally in 92/93), though a TA engineer unit were based there for a couple of weeks in 95 to blow up a quay on the north east of Anglsey. Didn't know that the RAF had used the place after the TE(GW)RA (Trials Establishment (Guided Weapons)Royal Artillery ) had closed down in the late 1970’s.

It's a motor racing track now.

(photo taken in 2006)