CGL wrote:

I spent the weekend at Great Yarmouth while there I thought I would
look up the Met Office at Hemsby. Is this what's left of the Met
Office, it looks rather sad doesn't it.

Colin Lush


It does indeed look very sad. It would have been better if they had
completely demolished it. I spent part of November and most of December
1963 there at the Radio-Sonde Training School - great fun! Bill Preston
was in charge of the school - anyone remember him?

Norman
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Picture I took earlier this year:

http://s214580749.websitehome.co.uk/Hemsby.jpg

Jack

Yes, Norman, I certainly remember Bill. I was there in 1961, and I had a
boozy stay at the King's Head, Gt Ormesby. I enjoyed every minuite of the
course.
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Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

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CGL wrote:

I spent the weekend at Great Yarmouth while there I thought I would
look up the Met Office at Hemsby. Is this what's left of the Met
Office, it looks rather sad doesn't it.

Colin Lush


It does indeed look very sad. It would have been better if they had
completely demolished it. I spent part of November and most of December
1963 there at the Radio-Sonde Training School - great fun! Bill Preston
was in charge of the school - anyone remember him?

Norman
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Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
85m a.s.l.
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On Apr 23, 6:50�am, "Bernard Burton" b.j.burton-
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Yes, Norman, I certainly remember Bill. I was there in 1961, and I had a
boozy stay at the King's Head, Gt Ormesby. I enjoyed every minuite of the
course.
--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

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CGL wrote:

I spent the weekend at Great Yarmouth while there I thought I would
look up the Met Office at Hemsby. Is this what's left of the Met
Office, it looks rather sad doesn't it.

Colin Lush

It does indeed look very sad. It would have been better if they had
completely demolished it. I spent part of November and most of December
1963 there at the Radio-Sonde Training School - great fun! Bill Preston
was in charge of the school - anyone remember him?

Norman
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Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
85m a.s.l.
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Bill Preston was still there in Summer 1967 when I did an initial
sonde course. I seem to recall there were a couple of others there,
XO's I think, and one of these was in overall charge of the station.
He drove a black 3 litre Rover, and I think his name was Hunt.

Dick Lovett

On Apr 23, 7:06 am, "Jack )"
wrote:
Picture I took earlier this year:

http://s214580749.websitehome.co.uk/Hemsby.jpg

It's sad to think that Beaufort Park, where I spent a good deal of my
working life, is probably like that now. My only sonde experience was
at Crawley, or rather Pease Pottage, and that probably has a Tesco
built on it now. My old MMetO, Gloucester, has a Homebase. I
recently heard that the RAF, which must have employed a few thousand
in the Gloucester area (Barnwood, Innsworth, Quedgely) has finally
left the old RAF Record and Pay Office at Innsworth.

Gloucestershire used to be virtually one RAF runway, judging by the
number of airfields there were. Bizarrely, most of them were in the
Cotswolds.

Martin





Jack

On 23 Apr, 09:42, Dick Lovett wrote:

and I think his name was Hunt.

That could be Michael Hunt who used to do excellent Anglia TV
forecasts.

But for "obscure" reasons (!?), apparently he didn't like being called
Mike......... -

Jack Harrison

On Apr 23, 11:38�am, "Jack )"
wrote:
On 23 Apr, 09:42, Dick Lovett wrote:

�and I think his name was Hunt.

That could be Michael Hunt who used to do excellent Anglia TV
forecasts.

But for "obscure" reasons (!?), apparently he didn't like being called
Mike......... �-

Jack Harrison

I don' t think it was Michael Hunt, Jack, because he seems to have
already started weather presenting on Anglia TV in 1967. I have e-
mailed a friend who was also at Hemsby at about the same time to see
if he can remember any more.

Dick

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On Apr 23, 7:06 am, "Jack )"
wrote:
Picture I took earlier this year:

http://s214580749.websitehome.co.uk/Hemsby.jpg

It's sad to think that Beaufort Park, where I spent a good deal of my
working life, is probably like that now. My only sonde experience was
at Crawley, or rather Pease Pottage, and that probably has a Tesco
built on it now. My old MMetO, Gloucester, has a Homebase. I
recently heard that the RAF, which must have employed a few thousand
in the Gloucester area (Barnwood, Innsworth, Quedgely) has finally
left the old RAF Record and Pay Office at Innsworth.

Gloucestershire used to be virtually one RAF runway, judging by the
number of airfields there were. Bizarrely, most of them were in the
Cotswolds.

Martin





Jack



Beaufort Park burnt down a few years ago. I do not know what has happened to
the site since its demise.

Part of the Pease Pottage site is still utilised by the Met Office, but the
rest was sold off.

John

Jack ) wrote:

On 23 Apr, 09:42, Dick Lovett wrote:

and I think his name was Hunt.

That could be Michael Hunt who used to do excellent Anglia TV
forecasts.

But for "obscure" reasons (!?), apparently he didn't like being called
Mike......... -

Jack Harrison


Yes - and there's the story of the female news anchor on ANglia TV who
is reputed to have said something alon the lines of

"and now here's the weather forecast from Mike Hunt"

(say it out loud for best effect!)


I don't know if there's any truth in the story.


Norman
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Norman wrote:

Jack ) wrote:

On 23 Apr, 09:42, Dick Lovett wrote:

and I think his name was Hunt.

That could be Michael Hunt who used to do excellent Anglia TV
forecasts.

But for "obscure" reasons (!?), apparently he didn't like being called
Mike......... -

Jack Harrison


Yes - and there's the story of the female news anchor on ANglia TV who
is reputed to have said something alon the lines of

"and now here's the weather forecast from Mike Hunt"

(say it out loud for best effect!)


I don't know if there's any truth in the story.



I was told about that when I was a Wattisham in the mid-seventies. It was
also mentioned that his name was originally Philip and that he'd changed it
by deed poll.

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