- Contributed by听
- East Riding Museums
- People in story:听
- Dick Peacock,John Goldby, G. Cheetham
- Location of story:听
- Leconfield, East Yorkshire
- Background to story:听
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:听
- A7829058
- Contributed on:听
- 16 December 2005
As we arrived at Leconfield for the first time, a hearse was just leaving. Despite this rather ominous beginning, things turned out not to be too bad. Squadron life was fairly laid back鈥ith little real hassle 鈥 except in the air.
(Dick Peacock, bomb aimer)
Many of us spent free evenings in the Beverley Arms getting quietly smashed. The three-mile walk back to Leconfield helped sober us up.
(John Goldby, bomb aimer)
The pubs we used were the King鈥檚 Head in Market Square, and the Beverley Arms 鈥 or any place where the beer was flowing as it usually ran out!
(G. Cheetham, rear gunner) 鈥
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