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Hornblower
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Just had a sudden flashback - the block that we were in was HAWKE block.
There was us 3 newbies - Geoff Truss, Bob and me - in the outer attic room and in the inner room we had Alick, Taff Cox(?) Taff Kinsey(?) Jack Frost, Twig Tray, Andy Mytum, Mick Murray, 'Drone' Smithson, Percy Pinder(?) Charlie Ankers(?)
Alick, I'm sure you'll be able to edit this list to come up with the right names.  You 'old sweats' were fresh off HMS Victorious and HMS Eagle as I recall?
The rest of the existing Chatham inliers were in the attic of another block that Rab used to reside in.
Then, after a few months, we all moved into the brand new Mountbatten block which, as Bob rightly states, was condemned as uninhabitable and used as a transit block.
We all moved again into one of the refurbished accomm blocks to find that we were no longer confined to the 'penthouse suite'.
Halcyon days. 
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 11:38 am Post subject: |
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Great recall Stu.
Andy Mytum = press ups, sit up, health foods (before it was vogue) his tatts, and, after he married and moved to Dargets Wood, his remote TV aerial.
lol............
Also, days when sugar, coffee and 'condensed milk' was mixed in yer mug before the addition of hot water.
Condensed milk? you ask.....yep, and it was great.
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RAB
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Hornblower wrote: |
The rest of the existing Chatham inliers were in the attic of another block that Rab used to reside in.
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Oh yes, and a fine upstanding bunch we had as well. Such potential leaders as Swede Moyle, Phil (the wasp swatter) Howarth, Stanley Bugles, Gypsy Rose Lee Ryan, to name a few. I, too remember the fabbo scran in Pembroke, and tot was still on the go then as well. That was a regular starter for ten most days for many of my colleagues, but never me...  .. I was too young so had to play catch-up with pints of cider and black.. The passageway connecting the two attics had to be treated with great respect after a good sesh, and that memory is with me forever. Thus came the name The Mushroom Band. (pre-Doggend days)
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Len
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| Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| RAB wrote: | | Hornblower wrote: |
The rest of the existing Chatham inliers were in the attic of another block that Rab used to reside in.
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Oh yes, and a fine upstanding bunch we had as well. Such potential leaders as Swede Moyle, Phil (the wasp swatter) Howarth, Stanley Bugles, Gypsy Rose Lee Ryan, to name a few. I, too remember the fabbo scran in Pembroke, and tot was still on the go then as well. That was a regular starter for ten most days for many of my colleagues, but never me... .. I was too young so had to play catch-up with pints of cider and black.. The passageway connecting the two attics had to be treated with great respect after a good sesh, and that memory is with me forever. Thus came the name The Mushroom Band. (pre-Doggend days) |
Is that gypsy ryan the same as the teddy edward ryan at fosni?
never made it to the dod end band... but fosni then came a close second.
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| RAB wrote: | | Hornblower wrote: |
The rest of the existing Chatham inliers were in the attic of another block that Rab used to reside in.
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Oh yes, and a fine upstanding bunch we had as well. Such potential leaders as Swede Moyle, Phil (the wasp swatter) Howarth, Stanley Bugles, Gypsy Rose Lee Ryan, to name a few. I, too remember the fabbo scran in Pembroke, and tot was still on the go then as well. That was a regular starter for ten most days for many of my colleagues, but never me... .. I was too young so had to play catch-up with pints of cider and black.. The passageway connecting the two attics had to be treated with great respect after a good sesh, and that memory is with me forever. Thus came the name The Mushroom Band. (pre-Doggend days) |
I remember it well 
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StickyBlue
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 10:10 am Post subject: |
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After passing out of training I spent many years at Deal before being sentenced to the penal colony in Chatham in 1978 and then on to RAF Northolt, not my first choice of a draft, but I have to say, looking back on it, perhaps through rose coloured spectacles, I made the most of a bad job and enjoyed myself there. I've got some more old photos I will rake out later but for the time being here is one of the band marching out of the main gate:-
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 10:36 am Post subject: |
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Some more 'old' pictures of HMS Pembroke
HMS Pembroke from the air.
HMS Pembroke main gate.
[u]HMS Pembroke Mountbatten Block.[/u]
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StickyBlue
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Another photo of The Band in front of the Main Dock Yard Gates. Not sure when it was taken but must have been early 70's as Pete Sumner was DOM
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I THINK that's me on pot on the right, and Eric McKone on the other side. I also THINK it's Cpl. Duggie Drysedale second from right in Bulgers...
That would date it late '69 - early '70.
But I could be wrong... AGAIN..!!!
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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It would appear for those of us that served at Chatham, that it was nothing new in the way we behaved, we were following an old tradition of cricket and beer from the 1890's as this old news paper clipping says :-
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Is that Dave Dawson as Drum Major leading the Band out of the Main Dockyard Gates at Chatham ? |
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Certainly is Dave Dawson.
That would make it after Drummy Andy Croft's time, RAB.
The buglar on right 'looks' like Addy Harper and the second right, front row, looks like Mr Adamson (without 'tache).
The occaision would probably have been the exercising our Freedom of Chatham, with;
Swords drawn, drums beating, bands playing, Colours flying and bayonets fixed.
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| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 7:12 am Post subject: |
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| 2nd Clarinet wrote: | Parade ground.
You can still see the white line where the Naval guard would line up on and where the Drum Major would march us along, on the march past. (Sometimes at a very fast beat if the heavens were dowing it upon us, or it was freezing)] |
A photo of Friday Divisions marching along the white line you mentioned Bob in 1980.
As you can see we were freezing this particular day and it was snowing a blizzard.
The Band marched off at about 130 paces to the minute with the Matelots hopping and skipping behind trying to keep up with us........
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I was probably on that one, freezing me crown jewels off!
Definately MBT with 'bone slanting down, (he was only a little chap and it got heavy towards the end of Divisions).
Because of the weather, the picture looks as if it was taken in the '30s, good piccy Sticky!
Anyone got pictures of the Attics?
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I remember that day....covered with snow down one side after standing in it for so long 
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