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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#2341 Post by ian16th » Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:05 pm

I never made it to Sjnger's, it was a lucky guese!

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#2342 Post by FD2 » Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:14 pm

I was in a taxi in Wanchai when a carrier from the 7th Fleet was in harbour in 1966/7. The drunks were lined up sitting on the pavement by the jetty waiting to be ferried back to their ship when one of them must have questioned one of the SP's parentage, because the patrolman set about beating the man about his head and arms with his wooden baton - over ten times and really hard. :-o That was his punishment on the spot before he faced more back on board. I don't know what the man had said or done but it made our Naval Patrol boys look like pussycats. As you say - they took no prisoners.

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#2343 Post by Ex-Ascot » Wed Sep 15, 2021 7:52 am

Remember in Berlin they used to give a list of places you were not to visit. A good City guide. On the doors they had 'no military personnel' Again a good clue. MPs came in one place so we hid under a table. Big boots appeared by our side demanding IDs on the table. We did so from under the table. 'Have a good evening gentlemen' was the reply.
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#2344 Post by CharlieOneSix » Thu Sep 16, 2021 12:36 pm

Here's one to be going on with plus a generous clue to start you off! A year ago this month it changed its name, having been forced to do so by public opinion.
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#2345 Post by om15 » Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:19 pm

Ah, I think we are in Bristol, formly Coulson theatre or something like that

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#2346 Post by Opsboi » Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:32 pm

om15 wrote:
Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:19 pm
Ah, I think we are in Bristol, formly Coulson theatre or something like that
Colston Hall?

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#2347 Post by om15 » Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:11 pm

Bristol Beacon.

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#2348 Post by CharlieOneSix » Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:32 pm

A difficult one to award as om15 has the new name and Opsboi the old name. Fight? In your corners, gentlemen!!!!

It is indeed the Colston Hall theatre which I used to frequent in the early '70s. Renamed the Bristol Beacon last year. Edward Colston's statue was tipped into Bristol Harbour by protestors in 2020 due to his connections with the slave trade.
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#2349 Post by Opsboi » Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:39 pm

Aha, the 'Bristol Beacon' moniker had eluded me until now

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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#2350 Post by om15 » Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:55 pm

Very civil Opsboi, thank you.

I'm sure that someone will quickly soar away with this one,

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#2351 Post by larsssnowpharter » Thu Sep 16, 2021 6:18 pm

Bicester?

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#2352 Post by om15 » Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:32 pm

That quick.

Yes, now a sort of yuppy industrial estate and vintage car place, was home to the Royal Air Force Gliding & Soaring Association, also 71MU aircraft repair and salvage when I was stationed there.

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#2353 Post by larsssnowpharter » Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:21 pm

It is likely we met there, om. Especially if you used the RAFGSA bar!

God knows how many times I drove through those gates. Lived there in a caravan at weekends. On full cat instructors course did an aerotow naked in a primary there. Bloody cold so no restrictions in the flying controls.

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#2354 Post by llondel » Fri Sep 17, 2021 3:23 am

OK, I'm sure this one will go pretty immediately
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#2355 Post by fin » Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:51 pm

Housing some billionaire's toys?
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#2356 Post by Karearea » Sat Sep 18, 2021 12:26 am

Is it a museum?
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#2357 Post by FD2 » Sat Sep 18, 2021 1:29 am

Area 51?

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#2358 Post by llondel » Sat Sep 18, 2021 1:45 am

Karearea wrote:
Sat Sep 18, 2021 12:26 am
Is it a museum?
Yes, it is a museum. I'm still surprised someone hasn't got it yet, it wouldn't surprise me if someone here has walked past it in the past week.

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#2359 Post by John Hill » Sat Sep 18, 2021 4:58 am

It is not our aviation museum.
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Re: The Capetonian WOE Thread

#2360 Post by llondel » Sat Sep 18, 2021 4:34 pm

Unless they've rearranged things, there a Vulcan and a Lancaster in there. That should narrow it right down.

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