RAF Calshot (Warsash Ferry) in 1957 written by Ian Harding
The long winter walks down the Spit road from the Domestic Site to the Technical Site (no short cuts allowed through the Bomb Disposal Area), to be met half way down by WO (Dolly) Gray with a selection of shovels from which he would `invite` us to contribute toward clearing the shingle, blown by the gale force winds, blocking the road.
By the time we got to work we were suffering from hypothermia and frostbite. I think that`s when I decided to remuster to the Clerical Branch - as it was warmer in the SHQ.
The Warsash Ferry; the name given to the RAF Launch detailed to daily collect and return Living Out personnel to work from that area of Portsmouth.
I believe it ran aground on a few occassions (much to the delight of those travelling to work) and had to be embarrassingly towed off, appropriately, by another RAF Rescue Launch.
We used to have some great laughs as the crews argued over whose navigating had let them down.
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The long winter walks down the Spit road from the Domestic Site to the Technical Site (no short cuts allowed through the Bomb Disposal Area), to be met half way down by WO (Dolly) Gray with a selection of shovels from which he would `invite` us to contribute toward clearing the shingle, blown by the gale force winds, blocking the road.
By the time we got to work we were suffering from hypothermia and frostbite. I think that`s when I decided to remuster to the Clerical Branch - as it was warmer in the SHQ. 
