Documentary … "The WatchTower"

Nice to see this come back around again !

Hey thanks from across the big pond on bringing this up…sounds like a good topic for a documentary . Wartime ghost stories & old WW II bases. Felt that way several times myself on a cold grey day once at Bodney as I looked around the old control tower where the 352nd FG once owned the place!

Thanks for sharing….. BlueNoser352 !

There was also a drama called “Cries from a Watchtower,” a Play For Today, which was screened in 1979. But I don’t think it was aircraft related.

I too have an old VHS copy of the programme and now thanks to a mate I have it on DVD.

I can remember trying to hide when uniformed ladies came into a pub selling a magazine called “The Watchtower”
http://www.watchtower.org/
Look and run

Are you sure it wasn’t War Cry, Peter?

That was usually sold by uniformed ladies of the Salvation Army.

It is an “interesting” documentary, and worth watching with some colour wartime footage.

It is mainly set around East Kirkby, with some ghost stories and an interview with one of the Pantons interviewed.

The watchtower is published by the JWs. I don’t think they wear uniforms. But then I do not frequent pubs enough to say catagorically so they might do.

The only uniformed girls in pubs that I have heard of would be Salvation Army girls.

Customer in pub to Salvation army member “is that right you save fallen women?”
“yes”
“Then save me a couple.”
Its Goodnight from me……

Hope all is well with you Pagen01 ..have a good week!

And your good self – hello to the colonies!:D

Can you tell me Sir what its about !

BlueBird Mike:

Thanks and can you tell me what this documentary is about ? Thanks

BlueNoser352!

Regardless of the proper terminology, the Jack Currie programme was indeed called ‘The Watch Tower’, as I have a copy.

Thanks Pagen01

Thanks for the info………..I think we Yanks called call it a Flying Control Tower…or so I have seen it painted on some Eighth Towers in photos…but was hoping Caranis will see this and respond. Thanks for your pointing this out Sir….what are you going to do with us colonist messing up the Kings English !
Hope all is well with you Pagen01 ..have a good week !

BlueNoser352!

Hi Bluenose, it’s either a Watch Office, or Control Tower, not a Watch Tower.
Watch Office was the proper AM name given to the military flying control building and was used right into the 1950s, when these became taller to deal with longer runways and more complex movements they became control towers.
The civil use of ‘control tower’ seems to go back alot further.

Peter Varneys’ post made me laugh, as I had to beat the ******s (not uniformed ladies these days!) away from my door yesterday morning!

Well I was hoping it was a WW II documentary!

Humm….. from what I read here I was hoping it was a documentary on Flying Control Towers in the UK during WW II. Guess not………

BlueNoser352!

I can remember trying to hide when uniformed ladies came into a pub selling a magazine called “The Watchtower”
http://www.watchtower.org/
Look and run