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No 122 Wing HQ with ATC Control Tower in the centre - About Summer 1959.  (Thanks to Keith Thomas)
I displayed this picture flipped by 180° in error and Ken Senar rightly picked this up.  (Compare it with the earlier photograph.)  At the same time Ken supplied some interesting detail about the layout of Flying Wing HQ as he was Flying Wing Adjutant for a while.  He says, explaining my mistake:
"I remember well that the building was almost cruciform in plan, rather like a church, with the front gable being one of the cross bars, much foreshortened, of course.  One entered the building from the rear in the corner of the cross and quickly turned right to go to the Flying Wing Briefing Room at the front of the building.  If one turned left it led you to Hammer's and my offices, with the Flying Wing Orderly room on the corner of the building, accessed from my office.  Alan Fairfax's Intelligence office was on the leg of the cross, not that far from my office.  The relation ship of Hammer's office to the Met Garden can be seen through his office window in the picture of 'Pinto, Top Dog', so I'm pretty sure I'm right.  There were cleaner's rooms, teleprinter rooms, and Rod Ping's area down the other end from me, as was a room which had in it a Martin Baker ejection seat during the phase when the Wing was converting to Hunters.  The Met Office was below Air Traffic Control and was run by Arthur Hull, a civilian in Met Office uniform (when he had to wear it).  He lived in married quarters and had two children.  During the occasion of the 2ATAF sports fest at Jever (this was before the ATC cupola was built) the upstairs was converted into WRAF quarters and the entrance boarded off so as to segregate the sexes.  I held the barrack inventory and was responsible for reporting drop-offs in building maintenance, so I reckon I knew the building fairly well - but that's a long time ago and memories play tricks.  There was an occasion when a bat flew into Flying Wing HQ.  Where did it roost?  On a conduit which ran immediately above my office door!  As one can imagine, there were (in)appropriate comments until it was removed after a couple of days."   (Thanks to Ken Senar.)
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