260 Signal Squadron (SAM)

260 Signal Squadron (SAM) Royal Signals Association

Squadron's Second Re-Union 1999
Quality Hotel, Loughborough
23rd - 25 April 1999

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Loughborough

Loughborough Market

Where is Loughborough? More to the point Why Loughbourgh ?

According to official documentation Loughborough is centrally placed and has excellent rail, road and air links. The M1 motorway is less than two miles away giving easy access to most parts of the country. Loughborough station is at the heart of the rail network and you can be in central London in less than 11/2 hours at peak times.

Wow but what does Loughborough have to offer the visitor. Try searching the internet and you will find NOTHING.

Everything seems to be near Loughborourgh. That is of course except when 260 Signal Squadron (SAM) Royals Signals Association comes to town.

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Bob McSeveney, Peter Lori and Anne Seymour

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Goldie Peters and Linda Hamblin at Loughborough 1999

The Charnwood Museum opened to the public on 22nd April 1999. The Museum is located in Queens Hall, Granby Street, Loughborough adjacent to Queens park. It tells the natural, social and industrial stories of the Borough of Charnwood.

RE-UNITED WITH OUR FLAG

Caught on camera the moment when Jack Fiskel re-unite's the 260 Signal Squadron (SAM) flag with it's Old Squadron.

There to receive the flag our President Maj. Bill Cunningham

Overseeing the transaction our Secretary Roy Andrews I hope this has been properly recorded in the property book Roy and that an AFG 1033 was duly signed and given to Jack as a formal receipt.

Tom Burdett Sid Soqo Bill Hickey and Stu Fowler chatting over a pint about old times.

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Jack we hope to see you again at Loughborough in April next year when we plan to hold our annual reunion. We missed seeing you in 2002 So if in the mean time should you happen to see any missing members of the Squadron from that second event wandering aimlessly through the streets of Loughborough searching for a reunion. Please point them in the direction of the Ramada Jarvis Hotel cos that's where we will be heading .

Beryl and Geoff Scott

Madge and Billy Laurance

My thanks to Geoff and Beryl Scott who very kindly provided the photographs for this page.

Beacon Hill

One of the highest points in Leicestershire. From it's rocky summit there are excellent views of Loughborough.

Quality Friendly Hotel

Loughborough was the setting for the second 260 Signal Squadron (SAM) Royals Signals Association reunion and from the reports I have heard it was a bumper of an occasion. So much so that half of those attending for the first time have not been back to a reunion since. All I can say is 'Bloody Fools' them because in the mean time we continue to have a ball. Perhaps the reason they never came back was because they headed back to Loughborough while we have been gallivanting elsewhere. Perhaps they never left Loughborough. "Oh I pity those poor wee souls"

Well we have news for them and for Loughborough too. For we're coming back again in 2003.

Roy Andrews, Eddie Ridley, Dave (Jock) Thomson and Bill Cunningham

Linda Hamblin, Lorraine Hunt, Tom Burdett and Sid Soqo

The Carillon Loughborough museum, which houses many R Signal artifacts , is run by a voluntary committee of ex-servicemen and housed on three floors of the Carillon Tower which contains 47 bells which are played every Thursday and Sunday during the season.

If you have any photographs of

the 1999 reunion at Loughborough.

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Second Reunion April 1999 at Quality Hotel Loughborough .

Reported in the August 1999 issue of the WIRE by our Association correspondent Steven Freeman-Pannett

Annual Reunion Held on the 24th April 1999.

By Steve Freeman-Pannett

This year we had to move to new accommodation due to the fact that there would be a few more members joining us for this Reunion. So we went to the small town of Loughborough, a place well known by the Royal Corps of Signals. Our new venue was the Quality Hotel just of the M1. With a few members turning up at the hotel on Friday 23rd April. I myself decided to drive over from East Anglia to arrive in time to meet the people for breakfast on the Saturday morning. I just made it. After breakfast most of us went into town for a look around and arranged to meet in the Royal British Legion Club for lunch. The invite to come to the club was given to Roy Andrews . On return to the hotel in the afternoon people took advantage of the Hotels facilities before the evening's activities. As many people arrived during the afternoon, when it came to hold the main meeting at around six-o'-clock thirty-one people had turned up and we sat ourselves in the bar area. Roy Andrews on behalf of the President Bill Cunningham opened the evenings meeting. As we are now recognised as an Association the Corps the formal meeting procedures were observed and towards the end of the meeting the last Officer Commanding the Squadron was introduced.

Jack Fiskel brought a very pleasant surprise, the presentation of a flag to 260 Signal Squadron Old Comrades Association. Incidentally this was the last flag to have flown on the flagpole at Dortmund before closure. It was accepted by Bill Cunningham on our behalf and all members showed their appreciation and of course photos were taken for posterity.

Ulla Freeman-Pannett who's birthday was to be on the Sunday was presented with two badges, one read 'I am 5' and the other '5 Today' (no guessing what age she is) but Ulla did wear them for the rest of the weekend. Ida Fowler organised a raffle to support funds. (Well done Ida same next year please) which would be drawn during the evening meal but the only prize of half the moneys taken was won by Roy Andrews to a rousing chorus of 'Fiddle'. After the meal we all boarded four mini buses and headed for the RBL Club and took part in their evening's activities of bingo. A raffle in which one member of our party won four prizes. To round of the night a cabaret and a singsong before returning to the Hotel, once again to invade the bar till the wee small hours of the morning. Talking of a few hours later at breakfast on the Sunday wee were all in good spirits (one or two still full of them) but we all slowly said our goodbyes and departed looking forward to the next Reunion in Dortmund in May 2000.

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