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- audlemhistory
- Location of story:听
- Audlem, Cheshire
- Background to story:听
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:听
- A5978226
- Contributed on:听
- 01 October 2005
In 1963 shortly after I moved to Audlem from Altrincham my father visited. As far as we knew it was the first time he had been there.
As we sat in the pub he suddenly realised he had been in the room before.
He was in the RAF in the war and after a posting to Iceland as a crane driver for the first three years, he had a lucky two years stationed at Wilmslow, close to Ringway (now Manchester Airport) famous as a Parachute Training base.
He was Corporal of a small team with a Lorraine Crane, Queen Mary Low Loader and a winch truck. Their job was to retrieve ditched and crashed planes. A plane had come down near Coole Pilate road (near Audlem) and his crew had been sent to recover it and had stayed in the very pub we were in. He recalled that the food had been fantastic and there seemed to be no shortage of it or of beer either. They were reluctant to leave when the job was completed.
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