The New 'Deal'

[ratso]

For all those who had the fortune, or mis-fortune, to serve at Deal this site will bring back the memories.
http://www.beer-genealogy.freeserve.co. ... /index.htm
It shows just what is happening to the buildings since royal parted the fair and windy town.
I wonder if anyone told the people in the houses about the Frenchman Ghost in the bell tower...I know I was told it every time I had to do a duty in the Barracks...lol
I hope you all enjoy looking at this site as much as I did. It's nice for a local to put up a site expressing the feeling of the loss felt when we parted.
A very nice piece on the Bands loss and the Band Stand and gardens. I hope the Band are still going back to play to this town who do feel a loss at our leaving.

[ratso]

I find things strange at times I find a site dedicated to Royal and Deal then go to look at what is on TV and the memorable film from the year I was with 41 is on channel five tonight 'The Deep' with Jaquiline Bisset...Strange thing this old world of ours....
Now Im starting to remember the songs from that year the one that sounded like 'Naffi Love@ OH Boy getting old and sad now....lol

[Shoulderholster]

Thanks for that Ratso,I didn't even know that we had given up Deal to the developers I suppose thats the way things are these days
(I was told that Crown Hill is an industrial estate now!)
I wonder if the graves of those long dead Marines that were buried against the wall that we all used to jump over when we came ashore are still there?.
Will the Green Beret pub change its name to something more PC.
Can you still get rat arsed in the Drum Major
and dress up in the Leopard skin that was on the wall and lay on the floor and let women stroke your tummy?, I don't think so.
Deal must be even more boring now than it ever used to be,sad times.
"The Deep" you haven't been watching television again have you?, don't let Yorkie find out!!.
Take it easy

[ratso]

What was the name of the Cafe where we all went for sunday breakfast, did a mean beans on toast for first thing Sunday morning.
I still have frost bite on my toes from shag***g a bird in one of the boats on the beach in the middle of winter.
I shouldnt have wrote that the missus reads this every night as well.
I think it's sad looking back on Deal this way but better they preserve the buildings than knock them down.
I can remember the morning the bandy went to play and the whole block opened up with air rifles on the poor bugger and when Honey Monster ran off with the bell... Good old days...
Keep smiling its only Pain!

[Shoulderholster]

Ratso are we talking about the E Coy Honey Monster?,if so which troop were you in?.
I was in 1 Troop for the NI tour.

[ratso]

Yep same old HM
I have a mental block with what I served in and I'm even worse with names. too many aluminium pans (smashed over my head that is)
What troop did you pass out from?
and wher is Whippet country??????

[Brian E]

For those in an nostalgic mood re Deal, have a look at these two sites.

http://www.beer-genealogy.freeserve.co. ... /index.htm
http://www.shipwrecks.org.uk/

[Jim T]

Ratso

I think the cafe you were talking about was the 4-3, or something like that. I could be wrong and be getting mixed up with one I used in Guz.

Jim T

[Jim T]

Ratso

Re my last I think that I have got the old drinking club mixed up with the cafe. Was the club the 4-3, the 5-9 or the 6-3????. To many brain cells have gone over the years!

Jim T

[ratso]

Well I think it was the drinking club that had numbers in it.....
begining to feel like Homer Simpson....Doughnuts

[Paddy Nye]

Deal 'finished'. Sadness. I had some good/horrible times there when joining up in late 1961. Tex Freeborn (Ex Guards- waxed moustache) as our DL. First time I built a bivvie with 2 ponchos. Kingsdown ranges in the rain. Having to have a clean hanky and 2p for the phone before being let out to town at weekends. Plus having to put an amount of weekly pay into the POSB (That's after visiting Naafi to purchase boot polish, toothpaste etc). Then marching through Deal to the Station(with kitbag) when going on Seasonal leave. Would recruits survive today doing all that?
I remember a Dance Hall out the back of the Barracks (We knew it as the Palais) where we used to go Saturday nights (in ill-fitting BD uniform) hoping to trap.
Great memories. I'm sure most of you out there had the same experiences.

Paddy Nye (771 Squad)

[Noddy Dunne]

What's wrong with Deal? - I come from Deal, and joined up there!, my old man was also in, but he comes from Dublin, and married a Deal girl and settled there.
I married a Poole girl, and now live there.
It's a great shame about the old barracks though, most of it has gone, abouth the only part left is the Churchill club, the guardroom, globe theater etc has all been demolished, and most of east barracks is noe houses and appartments.

[Noddy Dunne]

By the way, I forgot to say that the Green Beret is now the Green Berry and the Drum Major is now the Cambridge Arms (or is going to be, it was changed to just the Drum, and was due to be changed when I was there over new year - it is also full of druggies now they've all been chucked out of the Nelson!)

[Paddy Nye]

Shoulderholster. in answer to your earlier posting, if by Crownhill you mean Seaton Barracks, Yes that is just dust now. They are still building industrial units there. I think the only thing to survive was the old manor house which I think was part of the Officers Mess.
My main memory of Seaton was when the Duty Cpl let in a TV licencing bloke (without getting the buzz around the accommodation blocks). So I and quite a few others not having a licence (Didn't know we needed one in Barracks) finished up in Court to pay our £20 fine.
Does it matter that Seaton has gone? We only borrowed it from the Pongos anyway!
Needless to say, the Cpl got shit off the Adj next day.

[ratso]

I think I must be on a different planet tonight or reading this message board backwards.
Everyone so far has said they liked Deal and it was a shame about the leaving by the Corps. So Noddy we don't think there is anything wrong with Deal.
I miss the chinese take away where the owner at 5' used to chase 20 marines through the street, and the people on the whole were a great croud. So in all I think as usual the Forces are losing a great place.