St C is currently enjoying the £0.73 a pint beer (Tim Taylors Landlord if you need ask) in the officers mess at RAF Uxbridge, home of the afformentioned 63 Squadron RAF Regiment (The Queens Colour Squadron). St C has a soft spot for The Queens Colour Squardon, as they are almost (but not quite) Soldiers!!

The sun has been shining today, and I finished work early enough to go for a run around the base. What a joy! This place is a little oasis of calm & beauty in the midst of an “not so great” area.
The base was home, to 11 Fighter group HQ during the Battle of Britain (probably the last great thing the RAF ever did), and the mess I am in is the same building that those pilot chappies would have sat in all those years ago (RAF Uxbridge has no runway, but Northolt is a mile or two away, and this place would have been a buzz of excitement & activity back then). It fair makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck!
I even found the entrance to the underground bunker that was the 11 Gp HQ during the height of the BoB.

Hillingdon house (in the grounds) is beautiful, and is reported to be haunted.

I am pleased to report that this government is treating this place with all the respect that it’s history bestows on it, and is closing it to sell it on to developers so that (presumably) much more deserving people, like the low paid, unemployed, and asylum seakers can live in these beautiful grounds. I’m sure they will appreciate it as much as I do!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yours ever.
St C.