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brrowe WOI
Number of posts : 119 Age : 86 Localisation : Leicester Cap Badge : REME Places Served : UK/BAOR Registration date : 2010-06-30
| Subject: YMCA on Autobahn! 12/7/2010, 14:34 | |
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| | | mjm34 Maj
Number of posts : 262 Age : 73 Localisation : Gtr Manchester Cap Badge : R.Signals Places Served : BAOR, UK, Mid East, Far East, Cent America Registration date : 2009-02-21
| Subject: Re: YMCA on Autobahn! 12/7/2010, 18:40 | |
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| | | jim Let Gen
Number of posts : 1291 Localisation : Sutton Coldfield Cap Badge : RAOC Places Served : Dad, Hamburg, Bad Oeynhausen, Iserlohn, Bury, Osnabruck, Worcester. Me Detmold, Bielefeld, NI, HK Registration date : 2008-01-03
| Subject: Re: YMCA on Autobahn! 13/7/2010, 13:09 | |
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| | | brum FM
Number of posts : 2808 Age : 83 Localisation : Sandbach Cheshire Cap Badge : RA/QOH Places Served : JLRRA (Hereford) Nienburg Paderborn Colchester Munster Maresfield (Cyprus) Hohne Hemer Op Banner x4 Woolwich Registration date : 2010-03-02
| Subject: Re: YMCA on Autobahn! 13/7/2010, 14:03 | |
| How did you get on with the Home Guard website Jim ? I've had a more thorough dig around, it's full of interesting stuff.
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| | | Stephen Lock Maj Gen
Number of posts : 937 Age : 70 Localisation : Calgary Cap Badge : Pads Brat Places Served : Father -- Canadian Army. Served Hemer, Soest, and Wetter Registration date : 2007-12-28
| Subject: Re: YMCA on Autobahn! 13/7/2010, 17:48 | |
| I had heard the old YMCA-Windmill had been demolished. What a shame.
Apart from anything else (150 years of history etc), it was an unique piece of architecture and quite "homey" as I recall. Remembering it I can smell the warm comforting aroma of coffee and tea and, in my memory at any rate, syrup....which is odd as I am pretty sure they didn't serve pancakes!!
I wasn't aware it was an actual windmill, although how that escaped me I have no idea. I mean, clearly it must have been. Who'd construct such an edifice alongside an autobahn if it, in fact, didn't pre-exist the autobahn and was at one time a working mill? But such distinctions rarely occurred to an 8-year old and later a 17-year old!
I do remember, as a 7 or 8 year old, travelling with my parents. I always had "Munk" with me....a Stieff chimpanzee handpuppet ("Munk, of course, being short for "monkey").
On one trip, we stopped at the Windmill enroute to where ever, had our meal and were quite some way down the autobahn when, horrors of horrors, I realized I didn't have Munk with me!!
Poor dad had to take the next exit, swing up around, and head back something like 100km to retrieve Munk.
Sure enough, as we entered the cafe part, a woman behind the counter grinned and said "Ah, I thought there might be a little boy looking for this!" and produced Munk! He and I were so pleased to be reunited!!!
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| | | jim Let Gen
Number of posts : 1291 Localisation : Sutton Coldfield Cap Badge : RAOC Places Served : Dad, Hamburg, Bad Oeynhausen, Iserlohn, Bury, Osnabruck, Worcester. Me Detmold, Bielefeld, NI, HK Registration date : 2008-01-03
| Subject: Re: YMCA on Autobahn! 14/7/2010, 09:17 | |
| - brum wrote:
- How did you get on with the Home Guard website Jim ?
I've had a more thorough dig around, it's full of interesting stuff.
brum It's fantastic Brum, I've been getting lost in reading it, and I'm supposed to be working. LOL. | |
| | | darloboy961 LCpl
Number of posts : 8 Age : 79 Localisation : Perth Western Australia Cap Badge : R.E.M.E. Places Served : Bielefeld herford,detmold soest Registration date : 2010-09-12
| Subject: Re: YMCA on Autobahn! 12/9/2010, 16:53 | |
| the windmill as i remember was demolished due to it being in a sad state ,too costly to renovate lets face it organisations like ymca etc didn't make big dollars out us underpaid squaddies | |
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