Air Training Corps

[tomtom]

Are there any former members of the Air Training Corps squadron still around that had at one time a headquarters at Hollymount?

[mickypotts]

My brother David was in the ATC in guide Post, he really enjoyed it

[Vic Patterson]

1110 squadron Ashington around 1959.

[bediesathome]

where about in guidepost was the atc and about what years ?

[John White]

My brother David was in the ATC in guide Post, he really enjoyed it

Belated Happy Birthday Micky.

As Vic has said the ATC was in Ashington.

If your brother was in a cadet thing in Guide Post it would probably have been the Army Cadets. As I was in the late sixties early, seventies.

The leader was John Quinn (Capt.)

I had to quit when my hair got too long to hide under my beret. If only I still had that problem!

Bedies.

The home of the Army Cadets is on Morpeth Road estate. Still going I believe.

Behind & a little left of the war memorial. Directly opposite the Morpeth Road garage. Google map Queens Head Guide Post & trundle up the road a bit. It`s the white roofed hut on the right.

In my day it was very popular with the cadets Dads: the bar was open before 12 on a Sunday morning!

[bediesathome]

i can remember john quinn being inthe army cadets at scotland gate i was in at the same time . i also knew ronnie tillberry who was some sort of a officer the hall was in the same grounds as the football pitch .

[mickypotts]

Well smack my !*!@# and call me Nancy!! my memory is not what it was, Ashington was the place, a single story yellow brick building covered with soot from the chimneys, as everything was back then, he used to go up in trainers from Acklington I think

[bediesathome]

thank you micky potts for your answer regarding the air training corps being in ashington the other atc that i new of was in morpeth i was a member for a while thank you .