Photos of Wigan
Photos of Wigan
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Album Contents
Wigan Album
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Royal Observer Corps
Photo: Eric Turner
Photo: Eric Turner
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Item #: 7257
Item #: 7257
1st,On exercise at ROC Lincoln Post while on Camp at RAF Waddington 1986. Next two, underground at Atherton Post,Donald Purnell from Hindley in Civvi' jacket. Last one,at Atherton Remembrance Parade 1989.
These ROC Posts are Cold War related.I was at Atherton Post from 1963 until the ROC was stood-down in September 1991. We were all volunteers and classed as uniformed Civil Servants.
These ROC Posts are Cold War related.I was at Atherton Post from 1963 until the ROC was stood-down in September 1991. We were all volunteers and classed as uniformed Civil Servants.
Comment by: Eric Turner on 13th December 2009 at 17:21
The top photo' at Lincoln Post, shows some items of equipment that we used and trained with. Next to my feet is a box for a hand held anemometer,(wind speed indicator) in the foreground is the grey plastic domed cover for the FSM (gave Radiation Fallout readings at the post), a new blue Yamaha battery charger,(for lighting down the post)and the hand operated warning siren lying on the grass, to augment the main town sirens for the local people. Other items we trained to use was the Fall Out Warning Maroons.(Air exploding rockets,(similar to the ones used to call out Lifeboat men) This is not a complete list. E.T.
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